The episode seemed unnecessarily fast paced as well.
Seconded, actually. It was somehow overplotted and and underplotted at the same time. The mind, it boggles.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
The characters didn't feel like the characters I knew, and the writing was just all over the place. I did not feel like the special was made for me, let alone fans of the show. It's almost like it tried to appeal to the younger generation, and it looked extremely girly. The art direction was also off because there were times the girls blended into the scene, particularly Bubbles. That's not a good sign.
Also, there was barely any action scenes. And the action scenes that weren't there weren't awesome. The Powerpuff Girls are to kick ass and kick ass well. That didn't happen. It's almost like they were afraid to get a little violent for the sake of telling jokes that were either hit-or-miss.
I was very disappointed, and I wasted a half-hour for something I was really excited about only for my expectations to not be reached. It makes me really sad to see this happen to the Powerpuff Girls.
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Dance Pantsed: Mediocre and unnecessary
If you're going to revive a series that hasn't aired regularly in ten years, there's only two good reasons to do it: either you've been suddenly inundated with new stories to tell, or you've got the opertunity to take things in a direction you couldn't when it ended. "Dance Pantsed" tries for both, but ends up with neither.
On the surface of it, the episode plays like a standard PPG episode stretched to a half-hour runtime. The problem is that there's nothing particularly funny about it: the jokes about Bubble's video-game addiction are incredibly dated, as is the game they chose her to get addicted to. The dances used are dated, which might be the joke but if it is the punchline never arrives. And some old standards are yanked out: the Mayor and his pickles return, and the show takes another stab at a Beatles running gag. While I kinda appreciate that the episode isn't the sweeping epic-to-end-all-epics the ads made it out to be, at least that would've been a fresh take on the franchise. As-is, this feels like a disused script from the series' later years, content to hit the usual beats and little else.
The thing everyone's talking about is the new-and-improved CGI animation style, which on a design level isn't terrible. It works well for the jagged designs of folks like the Professor and Mojo Jojo, but is clearly having more than a little trouble rendering the girls in a way that comes close to being aesthetically pleasing. In terms of motion, it fairs even worse—the characters stiff joints and jerky motions make them a terrible fit for any episode but especially one about dance. It's not eye-gougingly awful, but the seams show something awful and it's incredibly distracting.
In short, the episode fails to make a decent case for its own existence. Had it merely looked like crap, I might've been able to enjoy it, but the whole thing reeks of desperation from top to bottom, and the lack of effort is appalling.