To be honest, I only tune in for the opening and ending music depending on the season, mostly the third and fourth seasons. I don't know who the targeted audience is, but I would not recommend to kids under thirteen....well I don't know if I would recommend it at all.I'm not a parent but the outfits bother me a lot as well as the transformation moves they do when transforming. It's too sexual in my opinion. There is a complaint, that their bodies are too skinny and unrealistic. That isn't my problem. It's just the clothes. You want to make tall, skinny girls, fine. But put them in clothes that fit. They don't need to constantly wear things that show their entire midsection or as much leg as you can without showing their private areas. It's ridiculous. Even their boyfriends sometimes seem to wear clothes that can't fit them as you can see their stomach a bit. Not as much as the girls but it is another example that tall people seem to have a problem finding clothes that fit.Which is ironic and hypocritical since there is a lot of talk about "fat acceptance" and how overweight people need to wear clothes that fit. Then it should apply to skinny people and that should show in cartoons like this.For me as an adult, the show is not my cup of tea because I like romance and this show focuses on it as little as possible. There is a video of all the kisses in the entire series and it is only two minutes and not even what I would call a kiss half the time. So yeah no. Not for adults who are looking for something with depth. But at the same time for it to be aimed at kids seems inappropriate with the clothing and some of the problems the girls have relationship wise. I honestly think half of their arguments are ridiculous.-Brandon is kissed on the cheek by another girl and Stella gets mad at him. -The guys go to help the girls find the last fairy and they get mad thinking the boys think they can't do something.If anything, the only message the show sends is the power of friendship and girl power as the so-called specialists always seem to need help fighting as their girlfriends are the only ones with powers. So yeah I can sense a bit of a sexist thing going. On the friendship part it could be aimed towards girls, but the skimpy clothes, are you trying to make it appealing to boys too, or are you trying to show girls they can only fight wearing next to nothing?

Something that has just got to be seen to be believed. And this is a little kiddies' show? Wow, glad I never grew up! Okay, those Pixies ruin it all, they are a damned mood-spoiling sugary-sweet blight, and should have brought my top score down, but Bloom and Stella are such likable characters, and so lovely, lovely, lovely... THEN THEY HAD TO GO AND SPOIL IT ALL BY GOING ALL COMPUTER GENERATED and the characters got morphed into unrecognizable little monsters that I no longer relate to. So my review is in regard to the first seasons, before the SECRET OF THR LOST KINGDOM computer monstrosities.Bloom, the blue-eyed heroine with the long red hair, is out in the woods one day walking her pet bunny when she encounters Stella, a vain hot- blooded, golden eyed girl with a glorious cascade of equally golden mane, battling a big, dumb ogre. She rescues Stella, and a friendship is born. Stella takes her to Alfea, a school for magical fairies. Here she meets Flora, Musa and Tecna, and the Winx Club is formed. Stella is the Fairy of Light, Flora (with her Latina complexion) the Fairy of Nature, Musa, raven- haired and decidedly Oriental, the Fairy of Music. Punk purple-haired Tecna is the Fairy of Technology. The Winx Club spends much of their time battling three senior witches, Icy, Darcy and Stormy, which are fortunately, not just three cardboard evil characters, but villains with their own foibles. Notice early on in the story how Icy is mistaken by a hatchling duck as its mother, and while she is not exactly good mother material, this poor creature waddles after her looking for mother love, much to her disdain. This, of course, is in total juxtaposition to Bloom and her aforesaid beloved and pampered pet bunny, underscoring good and evil.Later on, the Winx Club really gets into their stride, and become Enchantrixes, but I prefer it when they are fallible little girls that have to go all out to outsmart their opponents, rather than Enchantrix mode with their increased magical abilities. They are constantly being threatened at school with dire punishments by their teachers, getting their powers revoked, just like grounded teenagers being sent up to their rooms, and these very human elements are what keeps it so great, much as in the case of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.Getting this one on DVD is a problem. Much of it has been available albeit only in original Itali an, but is sold out. And Season 3 has never been released in any form, source Wikipedia. I've got most of the Fifth Season in English, but the dreaded new look soon takes over, and is not my cup of tea. What does help is the Net. I've been downloading episodes by the score, but watch out, episodes differ depending on the Networks and the dubbed languages. It quickly becomes a maddening quagmire of some magnitude! From network to network, the structures of story lines differ, scenes are presented re- edited, character names change, and ONE REALLY NEEDS ONE GIGANTIC BOX SET where everything is properly presented, Fox or 4Kids or whatever Network version selected.A little girl's show with such attitude that boys will find it irresistible. Similar to TOTALLY SPIES!

I am a guy who pays attention to a good story. And the creators are very good at what they do. They import many neat sequences and story with fairies.i watched it when it appeared on 4kids TV and I actually enjoyed it. The nick one isn't that bad either. It is focused more for girls but the story in all seasons are so neat. The creators are creative and went on to make another cool TV show. They make the characters like the fairies and specialists attachable. Thereare common teen elements throughout that; are real life situations. The editors and writer's make you care for them which is extremely hard to do. I know this is strange but watching a season of winx was like watching a season of 24. Every episode is consecutive n continuous. Not a lot of shows have that. This one is special. As I said the story is well crafted and smart. And this is definitely a good watch.

It is a colorful cross between Sailor Moon and Harry Potter. In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with that. Some people complain about it being a ripoff of Sailor Moon, but Magical Girls are the prototypical super heroines in Japan just as Super Man is the prototype super hero in America. In other words, if someone says "super hero," a man in a red cape who flies tends to come to mind. Likewise, if you say Magical Girl, certain traits come to mind.It's not the most original series, but as time accumulates history, it gets harder and harder to make up something truly original.As for their "anorexic" figures, they are not unprecedented. For half a century, people have complained about Barbie. Cartoons and dolls are only abstractions of the human form. Mattel tried to make Barbie "normal," and then suddenly MGA Entertainment makes Bratz, and kids start wanting Bratz dollz like crazy. People seem to want the abstract; accentuating the hair, lips, hips, and sparkling eyes. Barbie never made me feel anorexic, however when I saw other girls with flat tummies, human girls - not dolls or cartoons, I felt insecure. Therefore, Winx and the like will not make girls anorexic; they're just cartoons - abstractions of the human form.Overall, this is a fun show for a wide range of youths. Each character has a special, magical talent. In addition, each character has problems to overcome. Each fairy has a pixie friend (Chibi) who also possesses special powers. Another reason why I like this show is because the fairies are racially diverse. Leyla of course is of African descent, Flora is Asian, and Techna is British.