The Powerpuff Girls Movie

The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Craig McCracken
Written by	Charlie Bean Lauren Faust Craig McCracken Paul Rudish Don Shank
Story by	Charlie Bean Lauren Faust Craig McCracken Amy Keating Rogers Paul Rudish Don Shank
Based on	The Powerpuff Girls by Craig McCracken
Produced by	Donna Castricone Lawrence Bender
Starring	Catherine Cavadini Tara Strong E. G. Daily Roger L. Jackson Tom Kane Tom Kenny Jennifer Hale Jennifer Martin
Edited by	Rob DeSales
Music by	James L. Venable[1]
Production company	Cartoon Network Studios
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	July 3, 2002 (2002-07-03)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$11 million[2]
Box office	$16.4 million[2]

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.

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.