The Winx Club is okay, but it has so many flaws that it just isn't worth getting into. The plot focuses on Bloom, a girl who discovers she has magical abilities, and she goes to a school to learn magic with her friends while meeting boys who look like girls.
The main characters are two-dimensional, nothing makes them individual aside from their powers (which aren't very exciting, either). They're all goody-two-shoes losers, caring about the environment and thinking about "meeting all the cute guys at school, eeeee!" They're drawn to look anorexic, you'd never see one of the characters drawn as being a little overweight or anything like in reality, and they're all dressed like Victoria's Secret models, in tiny skirts and half-shirts. They're all ditzes and it could be argued that this show rips of Trollz and Disney's W.I.T.C.H. although I don't think that was the intention.
This show was on when I was a kid, and I still remember its popularity among the other neighborhood girls like me, but I was never really a fan or it (I was more of a Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? girl). Going back and watching the Winx Club as an adult only makes me realize how much is wrong with it. And what's sad is that the animation had potential to be used for something more creative and intelligent but instead it was thrown away for a show about superficial bimbos with fairy wings and magic powers.
The main characters are two-dimensional, nothing makes them individual aside from their powers (which aren't very exciting, either). They're all goody-two-shoes losers, caring about the environment and thinking about "meeting all the cute guys at school, eeeee!" They're drawn to look anorexic, you'd never see one of the characters drawn as being a little overweight or anything like in reality, and they're all dressed like Victoria's Secret models, in tiny skirts and half-shirts. They're all ditzes and it could be argued that this show rips of Trollz and Disney's W.I.T.C.H. although I don't think that was the intention.
This show was on when I was a kid, and I still remember its popularity among the other neighborhood girls like me, but I was never really a fan or it (I was more of a Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? girl). Going back and watching the Winx Club as an adult only makes me realize how much is wrong with it. And what's sad is that the animation had potential to be used for something more creative and intelligent but instead it was thrown away for a show about superficial bimbos with fairy wings and magic powers.