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.
[ Sirens wailing ]
From North America... Wheeler, with the power of fire.
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From Eastern Europe... Linka, with the power of wind.
From Asia... Gi, with the power of water.
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And from South America... Ma-Ti, with the power of heart.
When the five powers combine,
they summon Earth's greatest champion...
Captain Planet!
Captain Planet: The power is yours!
[Bear growling]
Aah!
Man: Unfortunately, once bears taste garbage,
they rarely go back to searching for food in the wild.
As a result, the bears become nuisances
and need to be relocated or exterminated.
Linka: Oh! It is not the bears' fault.
People should not build dumps where wild animals live,
and then blame the animal for scavenging.
Man, if one more leaf falls, I'm gonna torch it.
Come on, Kwame. Let's bag these up and rake in some burgers.
Absolutely not, Wheeler.
What do you mean? I'm hungry.
Not the burgers, the bags.
These leaves must be composted.
Landfills are overflowing with leaves and grass clippings
that would make excellent fertilizer.
Linka: Bozhe moi! Come quick!
What is it, Linka?
Look! Sly Sludge.
Reduce, reuse, recycle? Why bother?
Just send your garbage to Sly's Shrink-a-Dink Dump,
where we take a big problem and make it disappear.
Voilà!
It must be trick photography.
Trick is right.
This is the 17th time Sludge has solved the garbage crisis.
Then it's Geo-Cruiser time.
This could mean a heap of trouble!
Come on!
Sly Sludge: I really put one over on the local yokels.
Yeah, and they welcomed you and your dump with open arms.
All you had to do was promise jobs and few bucks.
But I forgot to mention that the jobs are for you,
and the bucks are for me.
Oh, the people will be shipping garbage
through town from all over the place.
[Coughing] Enough trash talk.
Let's see if Ooze has set up.
Dr. Blight's shrinking ray yet.
♪ Jingle bells, Sly Sludge smells ♪
♪ 50 miles away
Uh, boss! Ready to rip.
[Chuckles]
Careful, you oaf!
Blight says that machine's worth a small fortune.
But if it works,
I'll make a big one!
Tank: Wow!
The trash is shrinking before our very eyes.
You're a real genius, Mr. Sludge.
Actually, it's Dr. Blight's invention.
You belittling me?
Linka: Wind!
All right, Sludge. What kind of garbage are you into now?
The mini kind.
Or don't you believe I can shrink the garbage problem?
No!
Hmm. Well, I can,
starting with you, Trasheteers!
[All exclaiming]
Yeah, what do you want I should do with them, Mr. Sludge?
Take them over to the old condemned dump
with the rest of the load.
But the dump's jammed full, boss.
Who cares?
You can sneak in one more truckload
and a dustpan full of Planet pipsqueaks.
We wouldn't want the puny pests underfoot.
[Cackles]
[All shouting indistinctly]
Aw, can it.
- Aah! - Aah!
Aah!
Hey, moo shu pork.
I never did get lunch.
Ugh. Wheeler, we need to get out of here.
Oh. Right.
Fire.
[All exclaiming indistinctly]
With all this trash, we are lucky our powers still work.
Tiny, but mighty.
- Aah! - Aah!
Find cover!
Over here!
Wheeler: Batten down the hatch!
Kwame: I think it has stopped.
[All sighing]
[Wheeler grunting]
Oh, man. We were nearly trash compacted!
Gi: Come on. Let's head up.
[Engine starts]
Aah! Aah!
This is gonna be like climbing a moving mountain.
I never imagined there was this much trash in the world.
Tank: So long, Tinyteers!
[All yelling]
Kwame: Hurry, Wheeler!
Whoa! Oh!
Kwame: I think we have stopped.
That was some wild ride!
Are you two okay?
Yes. But where are the others?
Linka! Ma-Ti!
[Animal screeching]
I don't know where they are,
but we're in major trouble!
- Aah! - Aah!
What's a nice gull like you doing in a dump like this?
Gi: Wheeler, look out!
Aah!
Hang on, Gi!
[Screeching]
Look out!
I feel like I'm living in a Hitchcock movie.
Hair spray.
Now I know how a minnow feels.
I hope this works.
[Screeching]
Lucky it wasn't empty.
It's amazing how much we throw away before it's used up.
Hello!
Suchi, do you see anything?
[Hooting]
Linka: Help!
Somebody please help me!
[Chattering]
Linka, are you all right?
Da, but not for long.
This barrel is filled with acid.
It is eating through my clothes.
I will try to lift it.
[Chattering]
It is still not enough.
But now I can get it.
Wind!
Who would dump barrels of toxic waste in a landfill?
They are not barrels. They are batteries.
Well, they may as well be barrels.
People dump millions of batteries
into landfills every year.
And a lot of the acid must seep into ground water.
[Animal growling]
A bear!
No, a rat!
At our size, it might as well be a bear.
[Growling]
Ma-Ti, what can we do?
[Chattering]
I will try.
Heart!
We mean you no harm.
See?
We could really use a friend right now.
[Chattering]
Maybe he will let us ride him.
Be careful, Ma-Ti.
It is okay, Linka. Come on.
[ Laughs ] Why not?
Hurry, Suchi!
[Chattering]
Sludge: ♪ I've been working on the trash heap ♪
♪ All the livelong day
♪ Hire a couple goons for dirt-cheap ♪
♪ Sock the rest of the money away ♪
[Vocalizing]
A tidy workspace makes for happy helpers.
Yeah, and we're really making a clean sweep
of all this trash.
[Insect buzzing]
Look, lunch.
Do you have any idea how old that stuff is?
Check the paper.
"Elvis is back"?
From the Army? 1959!
It shows how long trash lasts,
even things that normally break down, like food and paper.
Wow! What's a rock billboard doing in this dump?
It's the way they used to package CDs
until consumers protested.
Now they don't waste so much material.
[Animal hissing]
Oh, boy. Tell me it's not a...
Snake!
Gi: Wheeler, look out!
I know! I know!
Back off,
unless you want to be tongue-tied.
Whew!
Where'd you learn to handle
a cocktail sword like that?
Oh, no! It's... It's... It's...
Incredible!
Are you guys okay?
Great.
Thanks for the lift, Mickey.
[Chattering]
What do we do now?
Stick close and try to find a way out.
Hey, check this place out.
It's like a flea market. Ah!
[Laughs]
Ta-da! Whoa!
- Are you all right, Wheeler? - Are you all right?
Oh, man. Talk about putting a little spring in your step.
[ Music playin ]
Why would anyone throw out a radio that works?
It is amazing how many things we throw away that are still good
or that could be repaired.
Or recycled.
We pass laws to put number codes on plastics
so they can be recycled,
but they still end up here.
[Squealing]
I will calm it.
And I'll free it.
Heart!
Fire!
This place is filled with hidden dangers.
Hey! We made it out!
We're in the woods!
Nyet, Wheeler. We are still in deep trash.
These are just garden clippings that could have been...
I know... composted.
Now I see what you meant. It sure takes up a lot of space.
[Chattering]
Aah!
This is like a New York nightmare.
Fire!
Wheeler! No!
Oops.
- I need... - Gi! Look!
Inside that tire!
Water!
[All sighing]
Nice going, Wheeler.
Sorry.
No real harm done.
[Insects buzzing]
We hope.
Gi: Mosquitoes!
They must have been breeding in that stagnant water.
Wheeler: You sure don't want a bite from one of those babies!
Run!
Whew! Made it.
What do you see?
More trash.
It is endless.
The only way we're gonna get out of here
is to sprout wings and fly.
That is it! Look!
We will fly out.
The garbage fumes must be getting to you, man.
That's a car, not a plane.
We can build a plane from recycled materials,
like the engine in this toy racer.
You have flipped.
Kwame's right.
Everything's right here.
Let's see. We'll need batteries.
The radio we passed!
There are plenty of aluminum cans.
We can work together to fuse the fuselage.
I'll fuse with you anytime, babe.
Oh, please.
- Come on! - We can do it!
All right! We're building wings!
[Grunting]
Fire!
Wind!
This definitely should have been recycled.
I know. The amount of motor oil that gets thrown in the dump
or down the sewer is staggering.
Well, it should get us airborne.
"Should's" the key word.
Shall we give it a try?
- Come on! - Let's do it!
Let's fly. Fire!
- It works! - We're up!
Kwame: And over the first hurdle.
It is no Geo-Cruiser, but we made it.
[Sheep bleating]
Wheeler: There's Sludge's farm. Let's head for it.
[Engine clanking]
Oh, no. The battery must be drained.
All right, don't panic. So long as we don't gain weight,
this baby will glide just fine.
Funny you should say that,
'cause either the cabin's getting smaller,
or we're growing.
Sludge's shrinking ray must be wearing off.
Great news! Lousy timing.
I am losing control.
We must let our powers combine.
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water!
Heart!
By your powers combined,
I am Captain Planet!
Whew! My job does take me to some trashy places.
- Help! - We're going down!
Nobody gets to crash till we buy the farm.
Planeteers, you've passed your recycling test
with flying colors.
Quick! Everyone out!
- Everyone okay? - Yeah.
But it's time to teach that Sludge bucket a lesson.
He cannot treat us like garbage.
[Sheep bleating]
[Vocalizing]
♪ And I laugh all the way to the bank ♪
Wheeler: We're cleaning up your act, Sludge.
Hey! I shrunk you.
And I can do it again.
[Screeching]
[All exclaiming]
Help, Captain Planet! You got to save us!
Hmm. That's a switch.
[Rumbling]
The garbage unshrunk!
We're going to be wasted!
Get clear, Planeteers.
[Men whimpering]
Whoa. Mr. Sludge, we got big trouble.
Hey, catch the radical rubbish rider.
All right.
Aah!
Blight's machine's a bust!
This garbage crisis is no small problem.
- Aah! - Aah!
We've got to cut the trash
before it takes over the planet.
Time to turn on my magnetic personality
and melt a few parts.
Surf's up!
Aah!
Do not worry, Suchi. The ray will wear off.
[Hooting]
What am I supposed to do with all this garbage?
You promised the town you'd care of it.
So I suggest, um... recycling.
You know, I bet there's a fortune
in recyclable materials here, hmm?
That's it. I'll really clean up this time.
I'll be rich. I'll be rolling in cash!
Speaking of money, boss,
here's Dr. Blight's bill for the shrinking ray.
What did she charge me for that piece of junk?
A million bucks?
Wha...
All: Go, Planet!
You can turn grass and leaves into great soil.
Building a composter to do this is fun and easy.
Check with your library or garden center to find out how.
Lots of stuff can be composted...
Eggshells, vegetables, coffee grounds.
The important thing is to get started
so you cut down on what you send to the dump each week.
We must all do our part
to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
All: The power is yours!
All: Go, Planet!
Gi: We are all products of the world around us.
Teachers, friends, TV shows,
and especially our parents
all make strong impressions on our minds.
Kwame: It is up to all of us to put our differences aside
and learn to communicate.
Ma-Ti: At home, school, play, or work.
Everyone appreciates respect and kindness.
So let's treat others the way we want to be treated.
- The power is yours! - The power is yours!
Earth!
Fire!
Wind!
Water! Heart!
All: Go, Planet!
By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!
♪ Captain Planet
♪ He's our 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 our hero
♪ Gonna take pollution down to zero ♪
♪ Gonna help him put asunder
♪ Bad guys who like to loot and 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 ♪
♪ Hear what Captain Planet has to say ♪
The power is yours!
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