Power Puff Girls Reboot

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Whattaya think? I saw a little bit of it and I feel the same way About this series as I feel about the reboot of Teen Titans: It sucks. The animation as about as bad as some of the old Gene Deitch produced Tom and Jerry cartoons. The storyline is just as bad as the current looney toons cartoon show, as well as Tom and Jerry Tales. Goes to prove that Warner Brothers doesn't give a damn about their audiences. If Chuck Jones thought he was a lousy cel-washer and animator (like he always said, with tongue-firmly-planted -in-cheek) then the current crop on animators don't even dare to be called artists. Did they all graduate from the now-defunct Art Institute?

I was completely unaware of it til now. But I think pretty much every "reboot" sucks. The whole Idea of "rebooting" I am opposed to. Can't anyone in the entertainment industry come up with new ideas anymore?

Ugh no. I wouldn't go as dramatically as "childhood ruined", but there's no reason to make it that ugly and CGI.

I saw it and was rather dismayed.

It was pretty obvious this one-off special was something none of the original Powerpuff Girls staff had anything to do with. Both Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti are with Disney (Wander Over Yonder & Gravity Falls respectively) and Genndy Tartakovsky with Sony (Hotel Transylvania and its upcoming sequel).

I'm afraid CN were simply trying to cash in on what was a once-successful franchise without understanding what made it successful. Dance Pantsed rather had a nasty flavour of the overly-talkative, action-lite PPG Seasons 4 and 5 under Chris Savino.

I wish Dave Smith (the director of this special whose only animation fortes are one half-hour Dexter's Lab episode, the one-off Flintstones: On the Rocks special, five sporadic episodes of PPG including the banned-in-the-USA See Me, Gnome-Me, and 2 episodes of Chowder) had done better. Or maybe Smith he was under executive pressure... Cartoon Network Studios have made some strange decisions the last few years...

At any rate, I think it was a poor exploitative showing - I'm rather hoping this isn't an indicator of a revival series; poor Cathy Cavadini (Blossom), E.G. Daily (Buttercup) and Jennifer Martin (Sara Bellum) seemed rather rusty...?

Oh and those who are interested, the animation was supplied by small independent studio Passion Pictures, who are more famous in the UK for the Gorillaz music videos. Stephane Coedel was animation director, with Kevin Dart as character designer. Dart previously worked on Sym-Bionic Titan and to my knowledge, is partly responsible for Steven Universe nowadays.

I'm interested in the special where Ringo Starr is voicing a villain (love the Beatles themed episode of PPG) but otherwise I'm not interested in this reboot.