`The Powerpuff Girls Movie'.(The Orlando Sentinel)

Those Cartoon Network and Kids WB! mainstays "The Powerpuff Girls" arrive on the big screen with their super-powers, their super-simple animation and their super-dooper-adorability intact.

They've been around since the mid-1990s, but a whole new generation of kids is now being exposed to them. So why not rehash how they were born?

"The Powerpuff Girls Movie" is a repackaging of the early history of the girls _ how "the Professor" created them in the test tube, with the unwitting assistance of his hyper-monkey Jojo. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup were concocted of "sugar and spice and everything nice" and a healthy dose of the mysterious "Chemical X." Jojo the monkey dosed himself with Chemical X only.

The goody goody girls can fly, shoot laser beams out of their eyes, punch holes in buildings, and do all sorts of neat super-human stuff. Jojo can do many of those things too, but since he's missed the helpings of sugar, spice etc., he's given to megalomania. He wants to create a world where he is King Mojo Jojo.

Apes, he tells his fellow simians, have too long lived under the thumb of man.

"The time has come to oppose that thumb!" Mojo bellows, in his best neo-Japanese Iron Chef accent.

We're treated to the girls' discovery of "tag," which, in their super-human hands ends with them pretty much trashing their home city, Townsville. The girls are treated as outcasts _ until Mojo's legions of super-apes arrive and re-trash the place. It's funny how nobody suggests they burn the fellow who caused all this, the Professor, at the stake.