Sugar! Spice! And everything nice! These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girl.  But Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredients to the concoction–Chemical X. Thus, the Powerpuff Girls were born!

We (excluding the class of 2019) all remember the cartoons of the ‘90s. The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Rocket Power, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Teen Titans, and of course the beloved heroes of Townsville – The Powerpuff Girls!

We all wish we could go back to the good old days when we could just watch cartoons all the time. Well, Cartoon Network has heard our pleas for childhood and has tried to bring those good times back.

Over the past two years, Cartoon Network has been working on remaking some of our childhood cartoons in an attempt to suck us back in and increase their viewership. Back in 2013, they released Teen Titans Go!, a poor attempt at “modernizing” the original Teen Titans. If you haven’t seen it yet, DON’T. You aren’t missing anything important or good. You will literally sit there for 30 minutes confused and disappointed in Cartoon Network, and longing for the good old days when the superheroes in Teen Titans were actually super and…well…teens.

After two years, Cartoon Network has gotten a little better at remaking our cartoon classics. In April, they came out with a remake of The Powerpuff Girls. While it still isn’t as great as the original, it isn’t nearly half as bad as Teen Titans. The new Powerpuff Girls have a lot more character than the original ones. Of course, each girl still has her trademark personality–Buttercup as the tough one, Blossom as the peppy one, and Bubbles as the sweet, innocent one. But the new show focuses more on the girls in school and interacting with each other, which gives us a closer look at the girls as girls, not just heroes.

This isn’t all good though. Removing a majority of the heroic fighting scenes from a superhero show takes away the best part…the villains! Mojo Jojo, Sedusa and HIM were the best part of the original Powerpuff Girls. The villains gave us the personality the superheros were missing; that was sort of their purpose.

So all in all, the new Powerpuff Girls is a pretty good adaptation of the old one. It does it justice, fixing some things the old one was lacking, but they should have brought back the villains along with the heroes.

Oh, and if you’re planning to watch it, be prepared: the mayor is worse than before.