Why did it bomb? And don't say because it's a girls movie, because The Lizzie McGuire movie managed to perform better than it and that movie was a lot more girly than the PPG movie was
Why did it bomb? And don't say because it's a girls movie...
Brayden Miller
Camden Ross
It was not funny
Charles Wright
>city destruction after 9/11 didn't sit right with audiences
>darker and edgier than what the show generally was
>Warners Bros focused on Scooby Doo and gave no promotion for PPG; CN had to do all the work
>general box office competition in 2002
So yeah, not because it was girly.
William Gonzalez
This. I liked it but it was just kinda sad for most of the runtime
Joseph Hughes
they didnt need an origin story. nobody cares about something that is already told in the intro every episode.
they needed a better story
Leo Roberts
it was a 10/10 origin story
Brandon Gomez
Whether a movie gets viewers or not, depends entirely on advertising and hype. Nobody knows if a movie is good or bad until they see it, so quality is immaterial. It's all about convincing people to see something they know nothing about.
Aiden Jenkins
WB being shit at marketing.
Isaiah Williams
>post-Rugrats but pre-SpongeBob TV-to-theatrical fatigue
>CN forcing Craig to make it darker and edgier
>Warner Bros barely promoting it
>boys being reluctant to go to theatres and watch a "girl's movie"
Grayson Watson
>CN forcing Craig to make it darker and edgier
thank God for that
Jonathan Davis
Wrong. Its a great story.
Adam Bennett
PPG Movie > PPG Rules!!!
Matthew Mitchell
1. Generally speaking, it's hard for a tv show to transition to film because of existing consumer expectations that they should be getting this for free (or as part of their basic cable package). Notably, the recent MLP movie had a domestic take of under $22 million. It was profitable, but certainly not an earth-shattering hit commensurate with its reputation as a boundary-crossing cultural phenomenon.
2. People underestimate how much power theaters have in deciding winners and losers. They decide whether they put up standees, they decide how many screens and showings a movie gets, they decide whether to give a movie with a slow start a few more weeks for word of mouth to build. CN didn't have an existing relationship with theaters from which to draw some goodwill, while WB didn't care enough to push for them.
3. Even back then, the movie business, specifically marketing, is a game of extremes. You either spend so much money that you are guaranteed a hit, or spend so little money that it's almost impossible to lose any. Middle of the road doesn't really work, yet that's what CN/WB chose to do.
Jaxon Perez
>Poor marketing
>Priemered during the shows hiatus
>Overshadowed by competition
I wonder why it failed indeed, user.
Bentley Cox
The problem with it was that around 2001, CN had that executive shake-up and those execs thought it was too dark and edgy and wanted the movie to be more jolly and poppy, causing a bit of a schizo effect with the movie's marketing.
Asher Wilson
But was it good or bad?
William Kelly
This wasn't going to cut it at box office after Shrek, Monsters Inc and Ice Age.
Jeremiah Edwards
>But was it good or bad?
wait you still haven't wacth it?
Jose Ortiz
It was a CN show that while popular, wasn’t Disney “EVERYONE WOLL SEE IT!” popular
Hunter Rodriguez
It being a girls movie didn’t help.
Even Craig said so. Boys who liked PPG didn’t want to go to the theater out of fear of being made fun of.
The advertisement was also awful.
William Martin
I like how the film deals with the issue of rejection. The girls, despite being seen as weirdos, tried to make a better world, while Mojo took that rejection and wanted to transform it into revenge and destruction.
>pic related
one of the best scenes of the movie