‘CAPTAIN PLANET’ LIVE-ACTION TRAILER

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Posted August 27, 2012 by Jeff Carter in News
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Sometimes I enjoy slow news days because it gives me a chance to seek out and post oddball stuff like this fan made trailer for an ultra-melodramatic live-action Captain Planet film. Captain Planet & The Planeteers was an animated series that ran from 1990-1993 about a team of  five kids – composed of different nationalities – who are brought together and given magic rings (each with the power of an element) in order to combat pollution and other threats to the Earth’s environment. When a big threat that the kids couldn’t handle on their own arose (which was every episode), they could use their rings to magically summon the blue-skinned superhero Captain Planet, who wields the powers of all the elements, and a mighty green power mullet to boot. 

I was in high school when Captain Planet hit the airwaves, so I can’t speak to how accurate this trailer represents the show or its characters, nor do I have any nostalgic attachment to it. It’s obvious though, that the producers of the trailer are huge fans of the show and are very passionate about Captain Planet. Their enthusiasm shines through the otherwise goofy and overly-dramatic performances by the adult “Planeteers,” and that absolutely insane-looking Captain Planet, complete with airbrushed blue six-pack and moussed-up green ‘do.
 


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Jeff is the defining voice of his generation. Sadly, that generation exists only in an alternate dimension where George Lucas became supreme overlord of the Earth in 1979 and replaced every television broadcast and theatrical film on the planet with Star Wars and Godzilla movies. In this dimension, he’s just a guy from New England who likes writing snarky things about superheroes, monsters, and robots.
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  • Keltari

    Wow. For all the decent production value they put into a fan made fake trailer, you would think they could have gotten some better actors.

  • groovin138

    If it weren’t for that ridiculous Cpt. Planet outfit, (80′s aerobics shirt, painted abs, sweet ass mullet;) I think I would’ve believed it to be a real movie…. Of course with the same feel and potential as Avatar and the live action Dragon Ball Z. Which are both worse than Star War Episode “1.” Not the real Episode One, which is amazing. I mean the more current Star Wars in which Danny Elfman’s corny ass music, consisting mainly of overly loud stringed instruments, sucked any possible life from the franchise as a whole. Anyway, fairly well done fan trailer. However, being an avid environmentalist, and growing up with the dream of a decent movie with this premise, you can trust me when I say that it is impossible to not be lame as Hell when talking about the jerks that are wrecking my trees.

    • http://www.geekleagueofamerica.com/ Jeff Carter

      @3efa9157b807ecd436c033cedae65d47:disqus – I’m not sure what you mean by “Star Wars Episode 1″ Are you talking about the “Clone Wars” CG-Animated series? Danny Elfman has never – to the best of my knowledge – scored any Star Wars music at all. John Williams did the scores for all six films.

      • http://www.facebook.com/AaronKelly81 Aaron Kelly

        I was also wondering about the Danny Elfman remark. Strange, internet people…creep me out

        • Jin

          Probably a notion gathered from an episode of Family Guy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/HappyGobo Justin Kuhn

    Putting a bra on the Captain was probably the wrong decision. I mean at first I thought it was supposed to be from “battle damage” or some crap like that, but the skit at the end seems to reveal a more tailored look, suggesting that’s actually his costume. For realsies.

  • Steve

    Yeah the day a Capatain Planet movie is greenlit is a day I hope humanity never see’s either.

    • Miles
    • http://www.facebook.com/john.askins3 John Askins

      I would much rather see a Captain Planet than a sequel the horrible Thor movie. That was the worst movie I’ve seen in at least the last 10 years or more.

      • Danial Horton

        Thor was a good movie, go off yourself.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Martin/1325644636 Dave Martin

          I put Thor on yesterday as background noise and ended up getting sucked into it. Thor is a good movie agreed.

      • Kellic

        Add me to the pro Thor group. Does it have the best plot ever? Nope. It was still entertaining.

        • http://www.facebook.com/adama2008 Jonathan Beardown Smith

          The beginning was really good! There are a few places at the end of Thor that did look fake but still better than anything TWILIGHT! The most boring, gay wannabe Dracula/Wolfmen! Since when can vampires stay alive in sunlight?

  • http://obisgirl.tumblr.com obisgirl

    Captain Planet looks like a female wrestler who wrestled too much in blue paint.

  • Robert

    Okay. i hated the tv show but this has all the makings of a cult classic.

  • GotChewZ

    I would watch it.

  • Mikey Ramone

    Porn?

  • CryHavoc

    Just what we need….Ah ELFie superhero….it was bad enough that show was nothing but a 30 minute greenfreak commercial. You notice how there are NO well behaved corporate entities? Dirt Clods…Flatulence….habanero chile payback…diet Snapple….and LIBERAL!!!! Captain Vomit will save us!!!…from progress…

  • Stoshy

    Why!? Why would they do this!?

    Oh gosh! The horror!!!!

    Leave the cartoon alone. It was fine as it was.

  • johnny

    I can’t believe i’m going to say this but it didn’t look all that bad until i saw Captain planet. He looks absolutely ridiculous i don’t think he could ever be pulled off live without making the audience laugh.

    What ever happened to the live action movie anyways?

    • Marc-Andrew Hunnam Nicholas

      I agree totally, I was actually stating to think it was legit until CP appeared and I felt heartbroken that it was just fan made trailer and not the real deal. I loved CP as a kid, and okay some live action adaptations have been horrible, like Dragon Ball Evolution, but now and then they do get it right. Like X-Men, that was a comic and several animated series before turning live action, and yeah okay they went way off the original storyline, but it worked.

  • http://www.facebook.com/adam.poole.77985 Adam Poole

    When Gaia summoned the planeteers, and had them gathered, was i the only one who was waiting fro them to suddenly say it’s morphing time and become power rangers ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/twinberg Trev Winberg

    doesn’t work anymore…

    • http://www.geekleagueofamerica.com/ Jeff Carter

      His YouTube channel no longer exists, but someone else uploaded it. Should work now.

  • http://www.facebook.com/john.askins3 John Askins

    Wow that fanmade trailer looked better than Thor and Captain America movies both.

  • Ismael Rys

    i mean this is, its … what that word?…it is …. LAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/utterskwesser Erica Antidote Mack

    OH MY GOODNESS I WANT TO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT CAPTAIN PLANET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Candice

    This is my childhood memories you are toying with, half assed I might add. I think I’m offended.

  • Airhead

    LOL NO!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/brian.wilson.12764 Brian Wilson

    reminds me of a cheap ( B ) movie!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Candice.greene63 Candice Greene

    Actually the story is sound, just Captain Planet don’t translate well to live Action.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1563763313 Norm Harding

    Really? I almost snorted my Mtn Dew out my nose! Thankfully it is a farce! The show was just not a really good show. I like the whole “Save the Planet” idea, but the script was so week even for a kids show!

  • http://twitter.com/Etherbeard Etherbeard

    No mullet, no thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kenny.wilson.52687 Kenny Wilson

    Gaia has vitilago? Wtf

  • Kevin Rubio

    Not as good as Don Cheadle

  • bob

    super navi

  • EofA

    Ugh…. Hey… my cousin knows After Effects and his buddy just got Final Cut Pro… let’s get all our bad actor friends together and make some awfully bad movie. It’ll be so cult.

  • http://www.facebook.com/christopher.edwards.925059 Christopher Edwards

    With the right casting and production value anything can be turned good. And hell it’s not like at I am typing this certain cities and countries don’t have clean drinkable water. If they made Captain’s suit more modern and even CGI perhaps, it could work.

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