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COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...girls club (it's lowercase, so it's art!) says that feminism today is about both power and femininity. So does The Powerpuff Girls, but it's easier to walk the line between girl-positive feminism and silliness with little-girl superheroes than with grownup lawyers dressed like Britney Spears circa 1999. More problematic, girls club is so self-consciously about, y'know, women's stuff that almost every story defines the characters in terms of gender: Jeannie gets sexually harassed, Lynne is accused of infatuation with a male client, Sarah blurts out an anti-lesbian slur. Lest you miss...
...righteous, this is VeggieTales biggest veggie yet. Archibald Asparagus is the eponymous messenger Jonah, who with his fellow vegetables embarks on the marine adventure of his life. But if air-conditioned theaters couldn’t coax kids out over the summer for TV show-based movies like The Powerpuff Girls and Hey Arnold! The Movie, it’s dubious how Jonah will fare on the big screen despite its generous dose of CGI effects and its, well, motivational subject matter...
...Even when you put aside the money, what writer would not want to have J.K. Rowling's impact on the world? Because of Rowling's Harry Potter series, millions of children have decided, at least for a while, that the most important thing in their lives is not a Powerpuff Girls movie, a pro-wrestling action figure or Britney. It's a book. "Our daughter Sophie got so obsessed with Harry Potter," Chabon recalls. "I said to myself, 'I want something that I write to mean that much to her.' Your kids are always saying to you, 'Daddy, when...