The Powerpuff Girls Movie
2002 American animated superhero film by Craig McCracken / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Powerpuff Girls Movie is a 2002 American animated superhero film based on the Cartoon Network animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. It was co-written and directed by series' creator Craig McCracken (in his feature-length directorial debut), co-written by Charlie Bean, Lauren Faust, Paul Rudish, and Don Shank, and stars the regular television cast of Catherine Cavadini, Tara Strong, E. G. Daily, Roger L. Jackson, Tom Kane, Tom Kenny, Jennifer Hale, and Jennifer Martin. The film serves as a prequel to the series, and tells the origin story of how the Powerpuff Girls were created and came to be the defenders of Townsville and how Mojo Jojo became a supervillain.
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Directed by | Craig McCracken |
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Based on | The Powerpuff Girls by Craig McCracken |
Produced by | Donna Castricone Lawrence Bender |
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Edited by | Rob DeSales |
Music by | James L. Venable[1] |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $11 million[2] |
Box office | $16.4 million[2] |
Produced by Cartoon Network Studios as its first theatrical film, and the first theatrical film to be based on a Cartoon Network series, The Powerpuff Girls Movie was released in theaters on July 3, 2002, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Despite mostly positive reviews from critics, the film was a commercial failure, earning $16 million worldwide on the budget of $11 million.