The Powerpuff Girls Movie is a 2002 American animated prequel superhero film based on the Cartoon Network animated television series The Powerpuff Girls. It was co-written and directed by series' creator Craig McCracken, 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. Serving as an origin story of the titular characters, the film follows the newly-created girls as they become ostracized for inadvertently destroying Townsville and assisting in Mojo Jojo's plot for world domination.