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I thought this movie was going to be all about plastic and how it is clogging up our environment, and in part it was, but actually it was also much more. I enjoyed the scene where they showed the desert where Lawrence from Arabia was filmed, or the one where they worked to clean the beach of Nature Island, knowing that next year they would have to come back and do the same, and of course the bit with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but what really surprised me was the fact that we all have plastic in our blood! I mean I know plastic is everywhere, but even inside of us! That was a surprise.

The most surprising of all however, was not all the information about plastic, but how LITTLE information the plastics industry is willing to share! I understand that they want to keep their "secret recipes" safe from their competitors, but come on every bit of food I buy has a list of ingredients on it too. Even if I know all the ingredients for a cake it still doesn't mean I can bake it myself. So what is the big deal? Is there something they do not want us to know? The government has passed so many regulations to protect us from what we consume, so why is it impossible for the EU to get any such a regulations passed for the plastics industry? I mean sure we don't eat it, but we certainly do put enough of it in our mouths almost every day. Just think, how many plastic bottles have you drunk from in the past week? Not to mention babies and baby bottles and pacifiers… What is all this plastic doing to our children, and why can't we as the consumers even find out what it is we are consuming?

I think this film does its job well and succeeds in doing exactly what I would expect from this type of documentary. It has opened my eyes and motivated me to start asking more questions. Who knows, if enough of us start asking we might get some answers and even bring about a change! If you have not seen this film yet, then you should!

To be perfectly honest, I went to the movies to watch this because I wanted to support the idea of an Austrian documentary, because I believe they deserve more attention than they are getting nowadays. So basically I was predisposed to like the film. I hated it. The information content could be compared to one of those Galileo-specials: nothing of consistence, the parts with any potential were not explained, zero visual aids to the chemical reactions (except for an incredibly lame cartoon). Werner tried very hard to come off Michael Moore- style(he carried around a backpack the whole time- WTF?!), which sadly did not work at all for him. To "force" an interview, and then leave when politely asked, is not my idea of a committed reporter. Many of the dialogues were irrelevant and void of any consequence. Basically, he took a great topic, had an intriguing poster made, and at this point stopped letting the good ideas in. I felt I did not learn about plastic, and the movie -lacking an offer for any kind of solution- did not have a point.

Two types of people. One type is naturally destructive in some way or all ways and the other type builds or repairs in some way or all ways. This film is an example of what happens when the world is imbalanced in some way. Common sense, common good and balance. I am glad that someone reported the review that plainly stated that there are too many people and that they should be eliminated in some way. Where does that come from as a solution? That is a failure and a cycle of sickness that we must overcome. We are far too great to be limiting ourselves to life on one planet really. Does it make sense that with an endless cosmos filled with galaxies and universes that we should be so fearful of solving a very obvious problem? Will we be controlled to death by greedy, controlling psychopaths so eager to herd us to only one conclusion each and every time? Creative apocalypse. Justifiable genocide. There is a pattern. We have to wake up to that belief. There is a power greater than anger or violence. The information in this film is inspirational to people that have the sense to be inspired. As evil as someone may wish to believe they are, without good food, clean air, clean water, rewards, love, companionship and accomplishment they will cease to exist and proves that evil is inherently flawed. The fact is we are being controlled to death when we should be educated and instructed to make responsible decisions. Instead we are taught to fear the unknown that may lose control and explode at any time. This leads us to believe that we are weak and that we should huddle in a dysfunctional, passive aggressive way, beaten into submission and taught that we deserve to be disrespected. A reasonable amount of respect for everything is what this film is hinting and all films that are similar. We need solutions for the protagonists and solutions for the antagonists just to be fair. This film is not perfect and wasn't meant to be but it gets the point across.

Oh, I'm sure my review won't be voted the best one at all, likely voted down, but this movie must be some kind of joke.

Sure, making a movie to show us where all the plastic we use in our lives could be interesting to watch, but Plastic Planet aims to make us feel like earth-killing monsters who need to use less plastic and spend more money to keep the planet from destruction. My god, it's not the f*ck1ng APOCALYPSE! I never use biodegradable bottles or bags (they cost more and I like pollution, anyway) and I don't recycle, neither do the hundred-some family members, friends and co-workers in my life, nor do many of the people in the community, or in the nearby city, or the island, or the whole province, and is the planet collapsing? Has it become a littered wasteland of garbage? No! And sure, Nova Scotia is just one province in the country but I've been to many countries and have yet to see one littered and polluted to the point of total destruction. Yes, I've seen the Great Pacific garbage patch and Beijing and Chernobyl and the Alberta Tar Sands and Love Canal, Bhobal, Scunthorpe, Sydney Tar Ponds, New Jersey, many of earth's supposedly most polluted lands, and never is it nearly as drastic as they say.

Not only is Plastic Planet one-sided, it is also an environmental extremism scare tactic for a problem that really just isn't there.

I won't be unfair, they do present their side of the matter effectively. But there are two sides to every story. Of course, there never will be a documentary or fictional movie in favor of pollution, this green movement crud has already swept the world with the ideology that to save the world we have to hate pollution, factories, jobs and industry and change our ways. Now we have to blame plastic. And environmentalists with their gourmet Starbucks and khaki shorts and biodegradable bottles can often afford to look like they care, though most of them really just want to yell about something.

My advice, if you're smart and want to watch a movie that presents both sides of the matter evenly, pass this one up, it isn't worth your time unless you're a die-hard hippie or a global warming alarmist.

And for the record, was the director even considering how much plastic is used in mass DVD production of this film? I've never seen anyone recycle a DVD and I assume this one will be piling up in landfills when viewers everywhere see it.