So why did the powerpuff girls movie flop? It had a ton of action and was really cool

So why did the powerpuff girls movie flop? It had a ton of action and was really cool.

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nobody like prequels ..

Gorilla warfare joke.

It was...unsettling

Because PPG was a show that had a large audience with both genders, but most boys were okay with watching on TV but not going to the theater to see it.

I love it and I can't understand it either

>That asteroid scene

I doubt we'll see something like that in mainstream American animation anytime soon: a quiet, reflective moment of complete isolation. Nowadays someone would fart to relieve the tension and the movie would end in a party, a dance-off or something equally retarded.

Show was about cute and comedy.
movie was depressing as shit.

I hated the movie as a kid. Always been a huge disappointment for me. I rewatched this with commentary and the those artsy-fartsy asshole talk how bout 'deep & dark' they made the powerpuff girls and how fucking proud they were.

Disgusting...

Agreed

The show still had it's moments of seriousness

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Pop music sure has changed.

I dunno man, as a kid I liked the tonal departure.

This movie is great in every way. Severely underrated.

They forgot to make it funny. It was just a serious origin story.

The tune that played when Mojo Jojo saved the girls from the The Gangreen Gang is my favorite in the movie; the entire scene is amazing.

>someone would fart to relieve the tension and the movie would end in a party, a dance-off or something equally retarded.

Why did this become a thing?
The one I hated the least was in Zootopia, and I despised how Gazelle wasn't part of the plot and mostly advertisement.. Or at least build up to a series or 2nd film

why don't the bad guys just move to another city?

>Pop music sure has changed.
does it even exist anymore?

The local rent prices are good.

for the small villains sure, but what of the kaiju that live on monster island

Police in other towns actually do their jobs. See: Citivilles episode

Audience expectation, chiefly. Or at least that's my belief and has been confirmed by everyone I've ever talked to who watched it.

People were expecting something with a happier more comedic mood, and some epic action befitting the big screen. We didn't really get that. Yeah, some of those fights were cool, might even be worthy of claiming epic. But after the first 50 minutes of depressing film, the action's punches were weak.

Also didn't make for good rewatch value sadly.

Same thing happened to the Pochantas film (among several other failures on its part). Audiences were expecting one thing and got a totally different one.

This . Boys loved the Powerpuff Girls but were afraid of asking their parents to see it cause people thought that since it's a female lead show it's for girls.

I really love the use of color in this movie to set the mood. Specially Townsville.

>tfw you're the only one who liked dance pants

Depending on the episode police competency can range from very effective to chief wiggum incompetence

my parents called me gay for liking this show when I was younger

I remember making this show my dirty secret when I was younger because I liked it and other action shows like dragonball z

It came out the same week as Men in Black 2 and Warner Bros. didn't promote it.

>Why did this become a thing?
Shrek.

>Donut thing
>Do nothing

I didn't catch this when I saw it on release day. How retarded am I?

It was a good tv show, but it's just too silly to take in when presented to a wider audience in the film industry.

Look at the box often top 10 during that time.
That's why.
HA!TM also got fucked over too.

WB badly flubbed the marketing.

Wrong place, wrong time. It aired right before movie audiences really fetishized grim dark bullshit. Had it come out around the Dark Knight Era it probably would've been a perfect opportunity to reboot the series.

This is the true answer. It was up against Star Wars, iirc.

Movie wad fantastic. The marketing was the problem.

The promotion for the movie was terrible. And to top it all off, a very bad weekend. It was 4th of July weekend. Not smart.

backgrounds were nice

I had the same problem but with cardcaptors.

still have to watch that film

I always hated that PPG got a big budget theatrical movie while Dexter's Lab didn't.

dexters lab movie was still good though
same with EEnE and johnny bravo

>dexters lab movie was still good though
It has nearly all of my favorites sci fi tropes.

>time traveling to an apocalyptic future
>main character teams up with alternate versions of himself
>main character grows a punished beard

This post best post.

Very stiff competition and poor marketing.

>poor marketing.
It had ads in CN every two minutes when it was on theaters.

The show went on a long hiatus, and the movie had bad marketing with no targeted demographic and critics drew parallels to 9/11 for all the explosions, meaning no one wanted to watch it.

cause it sucked.

It was an origin story. No one cared.

Because it was boring for children and not half as clever or funny enough for adults.

Melodramatic instead of dramatic.

*office.
fuck

Are the Rugrats movies the only movies based on tv shows from around that era that did well in theaters?

I remember it going up against MiB 2 because I was in my girls suck phase and wanted to see that instead. It had probably the best model one time actress ever. So she did a decent job.

the movie was dystopian but the TV show it was always sunny and happy

what's up with that?

is spongebob one of the few cartoon-to-movie adaptations that was successful?

The first two Rugrats movies and I guess The Simpsons.

Something about CN (I think Mika Lazzo, specifically) asking McCracken to make it more adult, but then chickening out at the last minute with going full PG-13.

I didn't have this problem with Cardcaptors but I could never find the toys as a kid because I never ventured into the pink aisle of death.

Yeah but never on any other networks. They already had the CN audience they needed to market more elsewhere. Also in that era parents were sick of taking kids to see kids movies. Waiting for rental and home video was usually the answer. It's why Disney had so many flops during that timeframe.

Did we ever get a 1080p rip of this? I remember someone tried but fucked up.

What about the Spongebob movie?

Yeah, the first Rugrats movie's success is probably the reason so many cartoons got movies in the late 90's and 2000's.
It's success was a pretty big deal in a market that was dominated by Disney.

So it was like the Winnie the Pooh up against the the final Harry Potter film then?

Cardcaptors is gay as fuck, most of Clamp stuff is gay as fuck, don't misunderstand what I'm saying, it's good, and well written, but you have to be blind to not see the gayness on all their stuff.

>THIS SUMMER
god I miss that

Because townsville is only sunny thanks to the girls

It's actually a regular thing in the show and not introduced in the movie

Basically yes. Could comparison.

Because 90s CN potential was shallow as fuck nd it's about time you faggots realize it.

...

12+ Faggot Spotted.
Go play Minecraft.

Most of you weren't even borne when the movie came out in theaters. The reason it flopped was because it came out years after the series popularity ended. It should have come out when PPG was at it's peak popularity, but it just didn't happen for some reason.

I loved this movie so much and was honestly surprised to find out it failed so badly.
What it comes down to thougg was poor advertising.

Also here is why the show ended up more serious than funny
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>Another PPG movie factoid. When we started the film I was encouraged by CN to make the movie for “25 year old guys.” So we upped the seriousness and action and down played the funny. By the time we finished there was a regime change at CN and the new heads of the Network were upset we didn’t make a poppy, colourful kids movie.

>This is why I stay in TV and avoid features, too many politics in movies

Pretty sad

Also craigs opinion on the movie
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>Not ehhhh about it at all, it’s just too painful of an experience to think about. We worked super hard on that movie, we poured our hearts into it but having it totally fail at the box office and having CN be disappointed with what we did was just too much for Lauren and I to bare. So for my creative sanity I try to move past it and just make new stuff. But it’s really nice to hear people like it, so thanks

Its so depressing, being Craig is suffering

>the show
Meant the movie

I say this is from the combination of how corporate animation studios like Sony pictures and illumination are, in that they rather follow formulas for all of eternity before taking a risk. And the massive hateboner Hollywood and the Oscars have towards animation and the idea of it ever being aimed towards adults

That was a factor but it wasn't the only one. Home video effected kid movies badly. Even Disney was having theatrical duds at the time because parents wanted to wait for VHS and DVD. The movie was also poorly advertised. They put all their advertising in to CN and didn't branch out much. The last factor was that boys watched the show but they didn't brag much about it not were parents supportive of it.

Shown in 1000 theaters less than other cartoon movies, and having afternoon hours only.

This combined with it actually being darker and edgier than the TV show so girls were turned off as well. At least that's the vibe I got from the snippets they used to show on CN to advertise it.

Fuck the Oscars. It's run by senile, bureaucratic, moldy, old toads anyway.

Plus the ones who vote for animation have no actual interest in animation

We've been over this OP. IT WAS A SHIT BACKSTORY EPISODE.

THE WHOLE MOVIE THEY WASTE THEIR TIME WHINING ABOUT BEING SEEN AS ENEMIES BECAUSE THEY TRASHED THE TOWN WITH THEIR ABILITIES.

4/5 OF THE MOVIE THEY DON'T EVEN FIGHT MONSTERS AND USE THEIR POWERS PROPERLY.

That's why it failed.

It wasn't advertised.

Also as a kid I thought it didn't do anything new that the show didn't.

I'm older now so I can see the animation IS pretty good... but it really didn't bring much new to the table.

It was butchered. I'm watching the dub. There is a lot more gay, incest and underage and overage relationships. One of the fucking subplots was a 10 year wanting to romance her 30 year old teacher.

studios are afraid to let a moment be tense because it might upset someone. It's retarded and it ruins movies.

Because it came out not long after 9/11. I remember reviewers slamming it about the imagery of a city being destroyed.

>One of the fucking subplots was a 10 year wanting to romance her 30 year old teacher.
Lots of cartoons have subplots like that.

Not ones that get reciprocated.

You ever wonder why Townsville basically worships the ground the girls walk on?

Son, we called you gay because you kept writing fan letters to Liza Minelli.

trips
I do't really care about visual quality myself, but I have a habit of saving everything. Is this 1080?

One, totally disagree with everything you say.

Two, even if the story was bad - which it wasn't - that wouldn't have affected sales very much. The audience was mainly kids, they don't look at reviews

Pretty much this.
The movie was marketed heavily as a massively girly especially with it’s “THAT’S WHAT GIRLS DOOOO” song every single commercial.

It was doomed

What happened was an animation industry pissing contest.

PPG the Movie came out a week after Lilo and Stitch. Usually animated films try to stay out of each other's way and don't come out that close to each other. But at the time, Disney's last few films (Dinosaur, Atlantis, Fantasia 2000) had been box office flops, and WB thought they could challenge Disney head-on. If they released a new cartoon right after a Disney film and it made more money, it would be a major blow to Disney's rep as the untouchable industry leader, especially since it came from their old rivals at the house of Bugs Bunny.

And Lilo and Stitch didn't have a lot of advance hype. It had no fairy tale setting, no princess, and a weird concept that didn't come across well in the trailers. The conventional wisdom was that it would flop. Basically, WB sensed blood in the water and decided to attack.

Aaaaaand we all know how that turned out. Lilo was a surprise hit, tons of families went to see it on its opening weekend, and so parents weren't interested in taking their kids to see another cartoon movie the following week.

It's a shame, because the creative team never expected the movie to be positioned as a major summer tentpole film. They just wanted to do a fun origin story for the girls, but the movie ended up caught up in all this drama.

In interviews for the series boxset McCracken says he was just being really emo about how all the advertising for the show was so girly so he let his angst make the movie super dark like some kind of emo teen and it shames him to look at the product of his outburst to this day.

That's called being a bitch. That was a terrible time for shows/tv everything was super sensitive.

Go look up Nick's movies on Wiki.

IIRC the live action Scooby Doo movie was also out around this time as well. Hey Arnold! The Movie too, so, too much kids shit all at once.

I know it's like 6 hours later, but I'm 32 you faggot.

So why did the mlp movie flop? It had a ton of action and was really cool.

>that PPG time travel episode

The show's largest fanbase is NEETs. NEETs don't have money to go see movies in theaters.

I saved money from last Christmas to buy a ticket when it came out, so I can't argue with you there.

Why did the Transformers movie flop? It had a ton of action and was really cool.

>Why did the Transformers movie flop? It had a ton of action and was really cool.
Kids got traumatized from optimum prime dying