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Reviews by: |
King Moonraiser |
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Transcripts by: |
Alan Back |
Last Edited: 04/07/08
WARNING: REVIEWS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!
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The movie was perfect. I mean it. Absolutely perfect. The pacing, action, storyline, characters, inside jokes, pop-culture references, and animation were all perfect. Yeah, yeah... It conflicts a bit with other episodes. Things like:
You know what? I don't care. Even though the movie brushed aside a couple of details from two of my all time favorite episodes, I just don't care. I loved this movie. This was everything the a PPG prequel should have been. Perhaps what I loved the most was the underlying lesson of the story. It involves a familiar theme: being different than everyone else, but it's not the same old tale of a "hero's angst" that many darker comic books and movies use. For the first time in the PPG show's history, we can clearly see the difference between good and evil in the PPG universe. The key to a character's alignment is based on how he or she reacts to being unloved. Mojo's feelings of rejection turn to anger and bitterness. He schemes his revenge against humanity for making him an outcast. The girls remain true to their hero status. They choose not to follow the way of Mojo even though many of his feelings against Townsville are valid. No. The girls do not join Mojo. Why? Because of their morality. Amazing! Their choice to do the right thing even though the very people the girls are trying to save do not appreciate or love them back is a sign of great maturity. Such selflessness is uncommon these days. Think about other characters like Princess, Robin Snyder, Fuzzy Lumkins (from the pilot), heck, even Elmer Sglue. Remember the choices made by each of them and how it affected their lives? It's a shame that the movie didn't attract more people into the theaters. The box office returns were pretty slim compared to other children oriented movies released around the same time. There's a number of theories why fans didn't come out to see the movie. Some have theorized that the older fans were too embarrassed to be seen in public attending a movie based on a show made for little girls. Maybe that's true to a certain degree, however, most of the blame for this can be placed squarely on the shoulders of Warner Brothers itself. Their lackluster promotion of the movie was the primary reason its returns were less than stellar. Besides, if they couldn't get older fans into theater, who's fault is that? Who were all those teens and adults in the theater with me back when Shrek and the South Park movie were playing? Here's a link to another review written by Alan Back that he did for his university newspaper's Entertainment section. Update! Alan wrote transcripts to the Interviews portion and Additional Scenes from the DVD. |
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The PPGs finally have a holiday special. Princess is the only kid in the world on Santa's naughty list. She sneaks into Santa's workshop and switches the "naughty" and "nice" lists around. Santa ends up making Princess a PPG and every other kid gets coal! The episode did seem drawn out at times, but the "race to the North Pole" scenes made it all worthwhile. Some memorable moments:
There was a promo featuring the girls singing "We Three Girls" to the tune of "We Three Kings" that was really cool. The ending credits are an instrumental version of that song. |
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