Reviews WesternAnimation / The Powerpuff Girls 2016

Not Bad

I remember hearing about this reboot a few months back. I watched Pieguyrulz's video titled "5 Reasons Why The Powerpuff Girls Reboot Will Likely Suck". He gave some pretty convincing reasons, but he also said he'd wait until the show aired and judge it on its own merits. Likewise, I decided to do the same. And now that I've seen some of the shorts and the first two episodes, I've found the show to be surprisingly good. It's definitely not the Powerpuff Girls we grew up with, but that's not entirely a bad thing.

Pros:

• The opening theme and intro is fun to listen to and awesome to look at and it provides an interesting twist to the original intro.
• The setting being more modernized (The girls are in elementary, the PPG hotline is a cell phone, etc) kinda gives the feeling that the show is growing up in a way.
• Despite it being a reboot, the original cast is still around, and I'm curious to see some of the new villains that will be introduced.
  • Likewise, the show's original formula is still around. The girls fight monsters and go to school and save the world and stuff, the interactive narrator is still here.
• The animation is pretty okay.
• The show can be pretty funny at times.

Cons:

• About the only real flaw with this show so far is that the original voice actors for the girls have been replaced. The new actors aren't bad by any means, but the thing is that the girls sound completely identical to one another and there isn't much differences in their voices. This is even more jarring with the fact that Tara Strong volunteered to reprise her role as Bubbles (Bubbles was her favorite role) and was turned down.

Overall, like I said, the show is definitely not the Powerpuff Girls we grew up with and the girls' voice actors will take some getting used to, but so far the show is turning out to be good and it's worth a watch if you're curious.