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(STF) - Do you know Buttercup from Blossom and Bubbles? We are talking about `The Powerpuff Girls', of course. Their creator Craig McCracken sheds some light on the box-office hit `The Powerpuff Girls Movie'.
LET'S set the record straight: If cartoonland's popular franchise The Powerpuff Girls are the IT girls of animation, then The Powerpuff Girls Movie, which opened across Malaysia yesterday, will blow away the competition before bedtime.
The girls in preview audiences seemed empowered by the antics of these brightly coloured animated tots. They cheered loudly when the trio, unaware of just how destructive their superpowers were, played a game of tag through the streets of Townsville, wreaking havoc and destroying property in the process.
Animated role models? You bet!
Craig McCracken, the creator of The Powerpuff Girls, and Lauren Faust, co-writer of the screenplay, shared some of their thoughts on the phenomenon that has swept up everyone from young children to college students - and unabashed adults.
Q: Did you always know you wanted to make a movie and break away from episodic television?
McCracken: TV gives you an opportunity to experiment - and there's a lot of fun in trying to make things work and keep viewers happy.
But the one good thing about making a movie is you can really sink your teeth into it and do everything you ever wanted, and go all out with it. So that aspect, which you really can't do with television, was great.
Q: What kind of stuff wouldn't work on the small screen?
McCracken: The visuals. We do all the boards and the designs, and do all the timing and all the colour - and we do all that - and we send that overseas. And then it gets drawn by the Korean animators. They have their own way of drawing. Each crew draws the characters...