Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Captain Planet, I used to like it when I was a little kid, and I thought that saving the earth and going green and all that other garbage was so important. But I was seven, I also loved the color pink and wanted to be a pony when I grew up. My opinions back then on environmentalism were largely influenced by adults, by the school's forced recycling program, by movies like Ferngully and The Toxic Crusaders and that sort of thing.Looking back on it now, I've only just realized how much environmentalism is forced on kids. Kids these days are told early-on that "polluters are monsters, hippies are wonderful" and that they need to recycle, drive hybrid cars when they grow up, buy only biodegradable organic items and hate pollution. I used to believe all those things, but since then I've realized that all of that "go green" extremism garbage is all just a waste of time.Captain Planet is pretty dorky, just saying. The main characters are a bunch of hippie teenagers and this adult man who looks like he took a few too many steroids, flying around and attacking anything or anyone that causes pollution. His enemy looks like a walking, talking cheese slice wearing a red leotard, Captain Pollution. Captain Pollution's cohorts are all pollution-loving teenagers (I'm on Captain Pollution's side). In all honesty Captain Pollution and his group were the only ones on this show who weren't pathetic cardboard cutouts of ideal environmentalists. The soundtrack to the whole show is really lame and I'm surprised I never noticed this when I was a little kid. This show isn't worth anyone's time, it's a waste of animation and money that could've been used to make something much better.

Rectangular_businessman "Captain Planet" is one of those shows that many viewers used to watch as kids, but despise or mock as adults ( A similar things happens with the original "Power Rangers" series, which I'm sure that if it wasn't for the nostalgia factor, it would have been entirely forgotten by this time. Of course, I know that there are some people who still enjoy watching series like this, and that's perfectly fine, but I'm sure that even the most devoted fan of cartoons like this one is perfectly able to see how incredibly cheesy this series was.) Compared with other Nineties cartoons such as "Batman: The Animated Series", "Gargoyles" and "X-Men", "Captain Planet" hasn't aged very well: The animation is poor, the characters were flat and uninteresting (Both the heroes and villains) and most of its main features had a notoriously "dated" feeling on them.Despite the fact that the ecological message is still relevant today, the way in which serious issues such as drug addiction, intolerance and racial violence left too much to be desired. Even for a kid's show, the writing was pretty lame and terribly uninspired.That being said, I don't really hate this cartoon. I mean, I don't like it either, but I think that is not really different to many other equally forgettable cartoons from the eighties and nineties (Like for example "Turbo Teen", "It's Punky Brewster" and the "Darkstalkers" American cartoon from 1995)In many ways, it was just a product of its time, which wouldn't work very well today. Hey, I'm not even sure if it really worked back then, but this kind of extremely politically correct stuff was pretty common in kid's shows from the previous decades, when children were much less spoiled and also more impressionable. I miss so much those days.

anthony-rigoni I remembered watching this cartoon series when I was a kid. Last Spring, Captain Planet returned on TV and I enjoyed it. So, let me give you the full scoop. When the Earth is on the verge of pollution, Gaea(Played by Whoopi Goldberg) sends five magic rings. Five teens were assigned to protect the Earth: Kwame(Played by LeVar Burton), the leader of the Planeteers from Africa who masters the power of Earth; Wheeler(Played by Joey Dedio, who played Jeff from Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw), the comical teen from the USA who masters the power of Fire; Linka(Played by Kath Soucie who played Phil and Lil from the Rugrats and guest starred in the Pound Puppies as Arf.), the music loving girl from Russia with the power of Wind; Gi(Played by Janice Kawaye who played Tammy from Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw), the future biologist from South Asia(Possibly Thailand?) with the Power of Water; and Ma-ti(Played by Scott Menville), a boy from South America with the ability to understand animals and harbors the power of Heart. When things get literally messy, the five teens combine their powers to summon Captain Planet(David Coburn), the defender of the environment! Every time when I hear the Captain Planet song at the end of each episode, I couldn't help but sing. This TV series teaches kids about the dangers of pollution and how we should protect our environment. Check out the cartoon series on Boomerang and I think you'll enjoy this cartoon. And remember, the power is yours!

doughertyseanp Apparently, Michael Reaves wrote a script for a Captain Planet movie called "Planet." Michael Reaves is a very notified author and screenplay writer. He's written for television shows, many of the same caliber of Captain Planet, movies, comics, novels, and others. He said he worked particularly hard on this script so it must be very good. But it was lost in the shuffles and never became a film. I know very little about it. It's of a much darker tone and takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. It sounds much better than the extremely corny version we all know and love, but I can't seem to find a synopsis anywhere. That makes sense since it never really got past the writing stage. But I'd like to find out as much as I can. If anyone has any information on this please either write it here or e-mail me at [email protected]. Thanks.