Transported to ancient Maya, Ma-Ti is captured and mistaken for the son of environmentally minded rebels...
Engines are revving up for a giant speedboat race through the Florida waterways. Unfortunately, the race threatens the endangered manatees who live in these backwaters. As usual, the Planeteers try putting to stop the eco-catastrophe. Only, this time they get some unlikely help from Wheeler's favorite TV stars, Danny Dazzleduff and Belinda Bubblebutt from Babe Watch, when they discover that Hoggish Greedly is behind a plan to get rid of the manatees.
Captain Planet was created by billionaire Ted Turner in the early 90's to spread awareness of the environmental damage done to earth every year, at the same time providing the action and thrills that a Saturday morning cartoon needs to be a hit. This special effort worked. BIG TIME. The show… More ran for six long successful years, with three seasons divided between DIC animation, and Hanna-Barbera, and today is still repeated all over the globe it was created to help save. Our world is in peril, Gaia , the spirit of the earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet, she sends five magic rings to five special young people: Kwame : From Africa, with the power of Earth.. From North America, Wheeler , with the power of Fire From the Soviet Union, Linka , with the Power of the Wind From Asia, Gi , with the power of the Water And from South America, Ma-Ti , with the power of Heart When the five powers combine, they summon earth's greatest champion, CAPTAIN PLANET! GO PLANET!!!! THE POWER IS YOURS! Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart! GO PLANET By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet Captain Planet, He's A Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero He's Our Powers Magnified And He's Fighting On The Planet's Side Captain Planet He's a Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero Gonna Help Him Pull Asunder Bad Guys Who Like to Loot and Plunder (Lotton Plunder: YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS CAPTAIN PLANET) We're the Planeteers You Can Be One Too 'Cause Saving Our Planet Is The Thing To Do Looting And Polluting Is Not The Way! Here's what Captain Planet Has To Say: THE POWER IS YOURS!
Captain Planet was created by billionaire Ted Turner in the early 90's to spread awareness of the environmental damage done to earth every year, at the same time providing the action and thrills that a Saturday morning cartoon needs to be a hit. This special effort worked. BIG TIME. The show… More ran for six long successful years, with three seasons divided between DIC animation, and Hanna-Barbera, and today is still repeated all over the globe it was created to help save. Our world is in peril, Gaia , the spirit of the earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet, she sends five magic rings to five special young people: Kwame : From Africa, with the power of Earth.. From North America, Wheeler , with the power of Fire From the Soviet Union, Linka , with the Power of the Wind From Asia, Gi , with the power of the Water And from South America, Ma-Ti , with the power of Heart When the five powers combine, they summon earth's greatest champion, CAPTAIN PLANET! GO PLANET!!!! THE POWER IS YOURS! Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart! GO PLANET By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet Captain Planet, He's A Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero He's Our Powers Magnified And He's Fighting On The Planet's Side Captain Planet He's a Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero Gonna Help Him Pull Asunder Bad Guys Who Like to Loot and Plunder (Lotton Plunder: YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS CAPTAIN PLANET) We're the Planeteers You Can Be One Too 'Cause Saving Our Planet Is The Thing To Do Looting And Polluting Is Not The Way! Here's what Captain Planet Has To Say: THE POWER IS YOURS!
Captain Planet was created by billionaire Ted Turner in the early 90's to spread awareness of the environmental damage done to earth every year, at the same time providing the action and thrills that a Saturday morning cartoon needs to be a hit. This special effort worked. BIG TIME. The show… More ran for six long successful years, with three seasons divided between DIC animation, and Hanna-Barbera, and today is still repeated all over the globe it was created to help save. Our world is in peril, Gaia , the spirit of the earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet, she sends five magic rings to five special young people: Kwame : From Africa, with the power of Earth.. From North America, Wheeler , with the power of Fire From the Soviet Union, Linka , with the Power of the Wind From Asia, Gi , with the power of the Water And from South America, Ma-Ti , with the power of Heart When the five powers combine, they summon earth's greatest champion, CAPTAIN PLANET! GO PLANET!!!! THE POWER IS YOURS! Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart! GO PLANET By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet Captain Planet, He's A Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero He's Our Powers Magnified And He's Fighting On The Planet's Side Captain Planet He's a Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero Gonna Help Him Pull Asunder Bad Guys Who Like to Loot and Plunder (Lotton Plunder: YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS CAPTAIN PLANET) We're the Planeteers You Can Be One Too 'Cause Saving Our Planet Is The Thing To Do Looting And Polluting Is Not The Way! Here's what Captain Planet Has To Say: THE POWER IS YOURS!
Captain Planet was created by billionaire Ted Turner in the early 90's to spread awareness of the environmental damage done to earth every year, at the same time providing the action and thrills that a Saturday morning cartoon needs to be a hit. This special effort worked. BIG TIME. The show… More ran for six long successful years, with three seasons divided between DIC animation, and Hanna-Barbera, and today is still repeated all over the globe it was created to help save. Our world is in peril, Gaia , the spirit of the earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet, she sends five magic rings to five special young people: Kwame : From Africa, with the power of Earth.. From North America, Wheeler , with the power of Fire From the Soviet Union, Linka , with the Power of the Wind From Asia, Gi , with the power of the Water And from South America, Ma-Ti , with the power of Heart When the five powers combine, they summon earth's greatest champion, CAPTAIN PLANET! GO PLANET!!!! THE POWER IS YOURS! Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart! GO PLANET By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet Captain Planet, He's A Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero He's Our Powers Magnified And He's Fighting On The Planet's Side Captain Planet He's a Hero Gonna Take Pollution Down To Zero Gonna Help Him Pull Asunder Bad Guys Who Like to Loot and Plunder (Lotton Plunder: YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS CAPTAIN PLANET) We're the Planeteers You Can Be One Too 'Cause Saving Our Planet Is The Thing To Do Looting And Polluting Is Not The Way! Here's what Captain Planet Has To Say: THE POWER IS YOURS!
Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart?
I have to wonder why Captain Planet and the Planeteers has lost its popularity over the years. You have to understand that the show was a phenomenon back in the early 90s. It was as big as Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers. While the show is still talked about by geeks like me who dive into nostalgia everyday lets not kid ourselves, Captain Planet's not exactly a household name anymore. Perhaps I've answered my own question. Being sandwiched in between the popularity of the Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers it's easy to forget Captain Planet in television history with the parental outrage it caused. That's interesting as the show clearly contains elements of the other two whether its multi coloured clothes or summoning something huge to take care of bad guys when things get too tough. I also have to try an imagine Ted Turner and his wife at the time Jane Fonda coming up with an idea for a superhero that saves the environment every week. It's just weird thinking they came up with this together at home. How much of the Captain Planet idea is theirs anyway? It's wish fulfilment for people who support the Green Party but Turner poured huge money to get it developed by production company DIC. The results are interesting…
Earth is in danger by itself. Gaia, (Whoopi Goldberg) a mystical mother or overseer to the Earth, sees the environment in a state of decay. Something must be done. Gaia or Guinan or what ever her name is summons five magic rings each with a different symbol (earth, fire, wind, water and heart). Is heart an element of the Earth? She then sends these rings across the world to be picked up by five youths. With our group of planeteers we have informative Kwame, sarcastic Wheeler, cynical Linka, understanding Gi and naïve Ma-Ti. They travel round the world in their vehicle fighting what we call eco-villains. They range from poachers, toxic waste disposers, computer mad scientists and more interestingly a villain created from nuclear weapons. Duke Nuken (no not that Nuke Nukem!) was probably the shows trump card in my opinion. Here you have a villain that is not only nuclear but isn't even human. He's a mutant who unlike the other bad guys would blow up the world given chance, so whenever he appeared suddenly Captain Planet had a real challenge. I think now is a good time to talk about the title superhero. When things get too much the planeteers can combine their powers to create Captain Planet who you know will pretty much save the day. A common criticism I'd like to address is that if our hero can be summoned why do they do need the planeteers? I have to jump in and say that Captain Planet's powers are limited as he's just a collection of molecules. He can't stay in one form long enough or he'll brake apart so he needs to return back into the rings in five elements. Hope that puts an end to that criticism. The animation is generally good, the music is cool (although the second part of the end credits music never works) and with Ted Turner in control we get star voices like Goldberg, Martin Sheen, Meg Ryan and even Sting! It's all fun and exciting but there are some problems. One of the main reasons that the show has received so much backlash and negative sighs from critics/audiences is because Captain Planet is a very heavy handed cartoon series. Even at the time I rolled my eyes whenever we got the environmental moral of the day. The characters or situations the planeteers meet feel contrived, which makes the eco-villains come across as two-dimensional. It's not uncommon for the planeteers to be having an adventure only for Kwame to turn to Wheeler to report wildlife figures on elephants as an endangered species compared to those of ten years ago. It only adds to the hilarity of an implausible show about five people trying to save the environment. When the show first aired it also offended parents who felt the messages in the show were contradictory compared to the merchandising. 'Remember to turn off the lights to save energy but buy the Captain Planet lamp shade' or 'don't use plastic but buy the Captain Planet action figures'. Like the second half of those end credits music ("we're the planeteers, you can be one too") it all (pardon the phrase) never rings true even with the best of intentions.
The series was never the same after it moved to Hanna Barbera, which took away the cool synthesizer music and made the show more cartoony. We have to remember the show had good intentions and there is a lot to like about Captain Planet as a cartoon series. It's ultimately it's own naivety that got in the way of good writing. But for millions of kids watching during the early 90s who wanted to use one of those elemental rings and for it's sheer silliness as an action adventure series I think we can forgive it.
Go Planet!
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This show was awsome when i was a young girl i watch it and now, grow up, this show reminds me when Cartoon Netwoork (the channel that run this show here in Bs As) was in his "Golden Age" Why? Simple because the channel not only make good Tv shows for kids but educational too this show you can watch it from two different sides
A) A kid show and a very good one
B) Educational because reminds us that contamination can damage and destroy our planet and depends from us to keep it clean Bottom line one of the good, and few, tv shows with the "educational" imprint in it Really awsome!!!!
Take a big clump of dirt and throw it into a swimming pool. Set that pool on fire, then blow on it. Did a silver magic Mark McGrath from a silver magic Sugar Ray manifest and clean up your mess? hide show
"Captain Planet" is the best thing the anthropomorphic planet of Earth could come up with to combat the rise of pollution. Gaia (said anthropomorphia, who looks like Vanessa Williams instead of Globey from Pee-Wee's Playhouse like she should) couldn't even use her powers to make him specific. He's not "Captain Earth," he's Captain Planet. If she made a superhero who admired hubcaps and collected hubcaps, and all of his actions were direct and specific toward hubcaps, she'd call him "PROFESSOR ITEMS." But here he is, the product of what happens when five teenagers with magical rings do a group hug. They probably just could've punched the bad guys with their ring fists. Hey, I like Earth Day as much as the next guy (I hate Earth Day), but Captain Planet has got to be the worst super hero of all time. Why? His sole purpose in life is to fight pollution. What is his only weakness? Pollution. "I'll stop you, Snobbish Dumpsalot or whoever! You'll never succeed in polluting the river! Wait, what is this, dirty water, noooooooooo"
Why did the Planeteers give up their rings to make this guy? The Asian girl could drop a tidal wave on your face. But no, they had to stand around for upwards of four minutes per episode, yapping about how awesome Planet is while he lays on the ground grunting with mud on his head. That pretty much makes him worse than every other hero, heroine, kid sidekick, wonder dog, or Mad Magazine parody of such in the entire world. I mean, I know Blecchman isn't going to be of much assistance in this war against broad social attitudes, but at least he'll never get his @$$ handed to him by a crying Indian.
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Long ago, I stumbled upon this show that raised environmental awareness. I was captivated by the action, animation, voice acting (LeVar and Whoppee are fabulous!), and the awareness it spreads. Just think, Ted Turner tried to spread environmental cleaning, and you know, we've barely made any progress. I feel that we need this show back on TV since we need to keep cleaning up our world. I place this show as my second favorite cartoon (behind pokemon and beating out inspector gadget). From here on I always remember the famous lines: "Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart!" and of course the now immortal: "The power is YOURS!"
As the editor for this page, it is my duty and a pleasure to write for this website. Let's start with the basics. Captain Planet was fantastic. I watch it on VHS today. If I owned the show, it would be out on DVD right now. I enjoyed Wheeler's comedy hide show
relief in the moment of danger and his comedy relief in general when there was no danger. Kwame is the leader of his team. When it comes to call Captain Planet, Kwame will say: "Let our powers combine!" This phrase activated the rings, and called Captain Planet when their powers combined. Another basics is that at the end of each episode, Captain Planet and the Planeteers have a Planeteer alert, a public message about the planet's growing problems. At the end of every public announcement, Captain Planet would use his phrase that he does on the show. "The power is yours!" is Captain Planet's phrase line. It is cool that this show is great. It is repeated around the world today. As of 2006, Boomerang, a cartoon channel from Cartoon Network, began airing season 6 episodes of Captain Planet. It is still on Boomerang today. The power is yours!
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