The Powerpuff Girls (2008 film)

The Powerpuff Girls is a 2008 American animated action superhero film based on the animated television series by Craig McCracken. Directed by Craig McCracken and produced by Chris Savino, Donna Castricone and Steven Spielberg based on a screenplay by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger and a story by Charlie Bean, Lauren Faust, Craig McCracken and Don Shank. It stars Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, E. G. Daily, Roger L. Jackson, Tom Kane, Tom Kenny, Jennifer Hale, Jennifer Martin, Anton Yelchin, Fred Tatasciore, Bruce Willis, Christina Ricci, Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle, Jeff Bennett, Kevin Michael Richardson and Rob Paulsen.

In the film, the Mayor of Townsville mysteriously disappeared, and soon, Townsville spirals into chaos. But, all hope is not lost. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged girls, known by their group hero alias The Powerpuff Girls, quickly find out on the disappearance of the Mayor, as it was Mojo Jojo who took him out of business. The three girls must save the Mayor before Townsville is doomed. The film is produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Cartoon Network Movies and Amblin Entertainment, with animation provided by Mercury Filmworks, Rough Draft Studios, Munich Animation, Duncan Studio, Wang Film Production and Sunwoo Entertainment.

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Plot
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Voice cast

 * Main article: List of The Powerpuff Girls characters


 * Cathy Cavadini as Blossom
 * Tara Strong as Bubbles
 * E. G. Daily as Buttercup
 * Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo
 * Tom Kane as Professor Utonium and Talking Dog
 * Tom Kenny as the Mayor of Townsville, Narrator, Mitch Mitchelson, Snake, and Lil' Arturo
 * Jennifer Hale as Ms. Sandy Keane
 * Jennifer Martin as Mr. Sarah Bellum
 * Jeff Bennett as Ace, Big Billy, and Grubber
 * Grey DeLisle and Phil LaMarr as additional character voices
 * Frank Welker as various evil primates
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Rocko Socko and Ojo Tango
 * Rob Paulsen as Hotta Watta and Killa Drilla

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Music
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Release
The Powerpuff Girls debuted out of competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2008. It then premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on June 27, 2008 and was theatrically released on July 4, 2008 by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was later theatrically released in other territories on July 11. In the United States, the film was rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for "non-stop frenetic animated action, mild humor and brief mild language".

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Critical response
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 91% based on 194 critic reviews, with an average rating of 8.15/10. Its critical consensus reads, "Beautifully animated, heroic, moving, and very thrilling, The Powerpuff Girls is even more fun and humorous for a whole family to enjoy." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on its A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak surveyed filmgoers and reported an 89% approval rating, with 81% of filmgoers saying they would definitely recommend it.

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Box office
The Powerpuff Girls was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 4, 2008, and in other territories on July 11. The film grossed $189.3 million in the United States and Canada and $247.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $436.8 million against a production budget of $15 million.

In the United States and Canada, the estimated projections for the film was around $20-35 million. In its opening weekend, The Powerpuff Girls opened on Independence Day of 2008 with $48.9 million ($42.4 million + $6.5 million in Friday night previews) at the domestic box office, topping the US box office charts and broke the box office projections. In its opening week, it had a very well performance at the domestic box office, grossing $58.2 million that week. Projection estimates soon were upped to $50-55 million for its second weekend, and it once again broke the projections, grossing $62.5 million ($56.3 million + $6.2 million in Friday night previews).

In other territories, The Powerpuff Girls broke multiple overseas box office records, hitting #1 at the international box office. Its countries that garnered the most revenue were the United Kingdom ($89.2 million), Italy ($67.3 million), Germany ($56.6 million) and Japan ($34.4 million). It continued its streak until its fourth opening weekend, when it fell behind with $68 million lost in box office revenue, causing a downgrade in its overseas performance. Its domestic streak kept a steady lead, until it went to #3 on the domestic box office charts.

Box office projections finished on December 28, 2008, and the film grossed a total of $189.3 million in the United States and Canada and $247.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $436.8 million ($601.1 million in 2022), becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2008, the fourth-highest-grossing animated film of 2008 behind Disney-Pixar's WALL-E, and barely made it into the highest-grossing animated films of all time, and didn't come close to being in the list of highest-grossing films of all time. According to Box Office Mojo, The Powerpuff Girls is presumably around the 57th-highest-grossing animated film of all time.