Forum - View topicGo check out the Powerpuff Girls
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LordByronius
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 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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Yo.
All those not attending AX at the moment should check out The Powerpuff Girls movie NOW. It's clever, funny, and visually fresh and inventing. And you'd better see it quick, since it seems the 20-something megaplex in our mall decided to shelve every other movie in existence to provide more screens for Men in Black II. Don't know if that's true for the rest of America, but yeah, regardless, go see it. Lilo & Stich is really good, too. |
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Ataru
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I saw it too. The Dextar short was "Funny" (I rather see a Cow and Chicken or Ed, Edd, and Eddy short instead of the Dextar short.), but the movie was great (I would love to see a Samurai Jack movie though). The odd thing is it got the better reviews then MIB II. *L* The only movie that got better reviews was Like Mike.
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4664 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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One thing I find about the Powerpuff Girls is that, while the know-nothings (about anime) in the press claim that the look of the show is heavily influenced by anime, in reality, the flat animation style looks to be heavily influenced by animation from the East... of Europe, that is, particularly the dialogue-free Hungarian and Czech stuff from the 1950s through to the 70s, which our local cable company, Videotron, used to show a (metric) tonne of in the days before there were real kids speciality channels in Canada (because I don't think they had to pay any royalties or such to show them). Of course, that flat animation style was influenced by Americans, particularly the UPA shorts like Mr. Magoo. I'm sure the look of the Powerpuff Girls was also influenced, to a certain degree, by Jay Ward and, of course, old Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I didn't really notice any of the one real recurring anime influence from the TV show in the movie, and that is the speed lines, but, since this is a movie, I think they had a bigger budget for backgrounds and didn't need to use speed lines. (I know they've had a handful of anime in-jokes on the show, but I'm only talking about the influences on the style of the animation.)
Also, there is a Samurai Jack theatrical movie coming, but it's live action. Is the Samurai Jack movie on DVD an original made-for-video movie, or is it just a couple of repackaged TV episodes? |
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Jlbkwrm
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I believe it's the pilot "movie" that's billed as "The Movie", and then there's a random episode on there as a special feature. |
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LordByronius
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Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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Yeah, McCracken has stated on various interviews that the main influences for his work have been Jay Ward, Hanna-Barberra, and UPA, but he also admits to being a huge Ultraman and general Kaiju fan, which is where he credits the over-the-top violence. On a related note: Non-stop frenetic animated violence. |
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Ataru
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Oh really. Hmmm, I might see it. The SJ that was released on DVD was the 2 hour CN perimmer (sp) SJ Movie. Much like the did with the JL movie. They did have one bonus ep., #2 I think.
When I saw that in with the PG rating, I was laughing. It made me think the 90 minute film is just them fighting. They should have made it just Animated Violence much like Video Game indestry. |
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anime uncut
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How is this thread related to anime?
Last edited by anime uncut on Sun Jul 07, 2002 7:16 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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anime uncut
Posts: 111 Location: United States |
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When they show "The Justice Team" (parodies of Captain America, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk), I can't help thinking about "George Of The Jungle", "Tom Swift", and "Rocket Ramjet".
As for the laughtrack, I'd have to say it was most influenced by "The Funny Company". |
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Morrolan
 Posts: 29 Location: Coquitlam, BC, Canada... byatch! |
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Go check out Ebert and Roeper's take on the flick.
Ouch. I haven't seen it myself, and I'm sure as hell not going to shell out eight bucks to see it, but their objections to it seemed pretty rediculous. Ebert's main gripe with it seemed to be that it isn't teaching kids about the environment or some crap, and that it actually has paralells with 9/11! Can you get more media-saturated that that? The answer is no. 
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LordByronius
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Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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Well, they're critics, and like most critics, sometimes the reasons they dislike something seem... well, odd. Roeper mentioned something about a "pickle fetish" in the movie, which makes me wonder if he's talking about an entirely different movie. Regardless, though, that's just Ebert & Roeper - the rest of the critics at Rotten Tomatoes certainly enjoyed it. But can you believe the rediculously low B.O. intake? 6 million?!? |
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Ataru
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Hmm, it good reviews on Yahoo's Critics Report Card. Yahoo's Critics Report Card
It came in as 9th only beating out Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood for the 10th spot. As badly the Scooby Doo movie was done, it's still pulled in more people. Oh well, it should still do better then The Crocodile Hunter movie. 
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