Line #7 Trivia/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie


1	* AuthorsSavingThrow: The movie was made to give hardcore fans a DarkerAndEdgier {{Prequel}} that explains why the people of Townsville despised the girls at first and show Mojo Jojo as a legitimate threat rather than a comic foil.
2	* BoxOfficeBomb: Performed horribly at the box office due to very little advertising for the film outside the Cartoon Network channel (largely the fault of Warner Bros.). As well being paired against ''Film/MenInBlackII'', a hotly anticipated sequel at the time, on opening weekend plus waning interest in the series. In some countries, such as Japan, it was released DirectToVideo.
3	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/CraigMcCracken doesn't outright hate the movie, but has come to think the tone was excessively dark.
4	* CreatorKiller: The film's failure was one of the many which caused WB's parent company, AOL Time Warner, to take AOL out of their name and generally minimize the company's presence the year after the film's release (though they weren't able to sell it off until 2009).
5	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The fact that the film was released about a year after the 9[=/=]11 attacks is often believed to be a contributor to its financial failure, seeing as how the film features the destruction of a big city and a lot of general violence.
6	* DVDCommentary: Done by Creator & Director Creator/CraigMcCracken, Art Director Mike Moon, and Bubbles, Blossom, Buttercup, The Mayor, and Mojo Jojo.
7	* FollowTheLeader: One of several feature film spinoffs of popular animated shows in the late 90s green-lit in the wake of ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'''s success.
8	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For unknown reasons, the film is unavailable for streaming or digital download, and has not been released to Blu-ray or any HD viewing. While the DVD is easy to find, it's an ancient 2002 disc with a pan-and-scan fullscreen presentation, with the original widescreen aspect ratio being unavailable. It has occasionally shown up on Creator/{{Hulu}} and Creator/{{Max}} but (as of July 2023) is not currently on either.
9	* KidsMealToy: Jack in the Box sold a set of six toys; Punching Buttercup, Mojo Jojo's Volcano Viewer, Kung Fu Bubbles, Bulging Brains Mojo Jojo, Karate Kick Blossom, and Skyscraper Mo Mojo Jojo.
10	* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: Creator/CartoonNetwork held a contest in which fans were encouraged to send in their own drawings of the girls and the Professor for a chance for it to appear in the movie. The winning piece shows up as the "wanted" poster that appears when the Professor gets arrested [[https://x.com/artsylauraa/status/1442668495250984963 courtesy of Laura Kramer.]]
11	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Warner Bros. greenlit this movie in 2000 and budgeted it at $25 million. The film was completed for $11 million (leaving the other $14 million for them to sit on) and was released--despite ''heavy'' promotion on Creator/CartoonNetwork to the point that even Creator/AdultSwim got involved--the same day that ''Film/MenInBlackII'' premiered in North America. It probably didn't help that WB's first live-action ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' movie had just been released a few weeks prior and was already a huge hit, since it may have been occupying the studio's attention.
12	* StillbornFranchise: The movie was intended to kickstart a series of movies based on Cartoon Network's other successful shows, most notably films based on ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' and ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. However, the movie's poor box office returns resulted in CN shuttering their plans for further films. Only two theatrical films based on Cartoon Network shows have been made since: ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForceColonMovieFilmForTheaters'' (technically an Creator/AdultSwim property produced entirely by the show's team on a modest budget and given a limited theatrical release by an independent distributor), and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' (which is really based on a Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation/[[Creator/DCComics DC Entertainment]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo property]] rather than a CN Original). An ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' theatrical film was going to be made at one point, but fell into DevelopmentHell. [[WesternAnimation/RegularShowTheMovie Any]] [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie other]] movies based on CN shows have all been either [[MadeForTVMovie made for TV]] or [[WesternAnimation/WeBareBearsTheMovie sent straight to digital platforms/retailers]], and even ''TTG! to the Movies'''s [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoVsTeenTitans sequel]] went DirectToVideo. The ''Samurai Jack'' movie would be recobbled into the final season of the show in 2017, while the ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' movie was eventually {{made for TV\|Movie}} in 2009 as ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow''.
13	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
14	** Craig [=McCracken=] originally pitched the movie to have the show's regular villains argue over who would rule Townsville. Craig found that it left little screen time for the girls, so he pitched the origin story.
15	** The movie bore the secondary titles "First Flight" and "Maiden Voyage" during production.
16	** [=McCracken=] has stated through his social media that he originally intended for the movie to be even darker, aiming to make it for "25-year-old guys". This was actually due to Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. going through the early phases of their experimental "adult animation" period that would lead to the creation of Creator/AdultSwim (other products of this including the likes of the Creator/JohnKricfalusi-esque ''The Flintstones on the Rocks'' and the live action ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' movie originally being intended for older audiences with an R rating). However Warner Bros. later backed down from this idea and requested the film be toned down to a PG rating (the ''Scooby Doo'' movie was similarly affected by having much of the adult humor cut out of the final film in order to get a PG rating).
17	** It was planned for other shows such as ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' and ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' to have theatrical films following this movie. But due to the film underperforming, Cartoon Network backed away from feature films and have since stuck with made-for-TV movies for their shows. This is also why the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' GrandFinale movie languished in development hell for over a decade, before it was decided to produce a fifth season.
18	** Craig asked Music/{{Gorillaz}} if they could do a song for the film. But that never came to pass due to scheduling conflicts. They ended up making a cameo on a newspaper that Mojo is reading.
19	* WriterRevolt: When the film was greenlit, [=McCracken=] had become increasingly frustrated at the MisaimedMarketing, which passed PPG off as [[GirlShowGhetto any other "girly" girls' show]], with tie-in products such as makeup kits and jewelry, and sought to emphasize the show's roots as ''The Whoop Ass Girls'' by making the film as violent as possible. As stated above, he has since voiced regret about taking the movie in such a direction.

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