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6 Degrees Entertainment

'The Powerpuff Girls - The Complete First Season'
(Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong, et al / 2-Disc DVD / TV-PG / (1998) 2007 / Warner Bros.)

Overview: The Powerpuff Girls is an award-winning animated action series about three super-powered little girls Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup with one very big mission: saving the world before bedtime.

DVD Verdict: Admit it: if you're a guy and you love this show, it's hard to think about people laughing at you for getting into girly stuff. Like you'd have to buy it with your head down thinking "nobody look at me buying this thing yet, it's for my daughter". But it's all for nothing as regardless if you're a young boy, girl, parent or just a comedy fan, there's plenty to like about it and the only thing you'd have a problem with is who its obvious target audience is.

The show follows that familiar cartoon format of a 22 minute episode separated into 2 stories. The episodes on this set range from the great to the good. There's rarely a clunker in the whole thing and each episode is great to watch. Sure some will obviously stand out among the others but you probably won't find a complete dud on the set. Only gripe you might have with is you wish more episodes were included but leave that for season 2 set, right?

Some of the highlights are "Boogie Frights/Abracadaver" where in the first half, the Boogeyman blocks out the sun so they can party on the surface whereas the latter as the girls trying to stop a zombie destroying the town. Probably one of the best Bubbles-centered episodes, "Bubblevicious" finds Bubbles frustrated she's seen as the baby of the group and decides to take out her frustrations on anything that comes around. Her reaction to being picked for "Duck, Duck, Goose" is classic. We also get the double length episodes "The Rowdyruff Boys" where Mojo Jojo creates boy counterparts to the girls who are just as tough, maybe even toughter than the girls as well as "Uh Oh Dynamo" where an ultra-tough monster forces the girls to go into a mech anime-style.

Kind of disappointing are the extras. While we do get creator Craig McCracken's original pilot for the show the "Whoop*** Girls", we also get some rather questionable (read: for the kiddies) inclusions such as Space Ghost premiere and probably one of the most unprofessional interviews I've ever seen. So much for insight. Also would've been nice to get some commentaries from McCracken and animation director (and Samurai Jack creator) Genndy Tartakovsky but oh well.

While the extras are rather lackluster but the draw is the episodes and here they deliver, no matter how girly it feels! This is a Standard Version Presentation (1.66:1) and comes with the Special Features of:

Craig McCracken's Original Student Film: The Whoop*as Girls: A Sticky Situation & Animatics
Season One Promos
Mat Fuzzy Lumkins, and More!

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