Original subtitles

(male narrator) Our world is in peril.

Gala, 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..

[tires screeching]

[papers rustling]

...from the Soviet Union, Linka, with the power of wind..

...from Asia, Gi, with the power of water..

[water splashing]

...and from South America, Ma-Ti, with the power of heart.

When the five powers combine

they summon Earth's greatest champion, Captain Planet!

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

[theme music]

(Captain Planet) The power is yours!

[dramatic music]

[wind howling]

(Greedly) ‘Well, behold the future site of Greedly's Greenland Estates'

‘the world's most expensive beach resort.’

[Greedly laughs]

[Greedly snorts]

(Rigger) ‘Beach resort? The place is covered with ice, Mr. Greedly.'

(Greedly) ‘| can make a silk purse out of this sow's ear.’

‘We'll warm up the Earth till this place’

‘is as hot as the tropics.’

Oh, | get it, after the ice melts

you can sell your land for a fortune, boss.

Yup, yup.

But what about the Planeteer punks?

Yes, nowadays they have everyone squealing about the environment.

But what if we could go back in time

before there were Planeteers?

You mean you can time-travel?

Well, | can't hog all the credit

but my piggy bank financed Dr. Blight's newest invention.

| call it the Somewhere-In-Time Pool.

[beeping]

(MAL) ‘Oh, don't let us get poetic.’

‘It's just a time machine.’

Why, MAL, darling, you're jealous just because

you didn't invent a doorway to the past and future.

If | did, it would reach further than a measly 50 years.

Just send us back to the 1950s.

No pollution laws, no Planeteers and no Captain Planet!

We'll burn all the coal and oil we can find.

Permit me to show you what will happen if you go and do that.

Your burning will release tons of carbon dioxide into the air.

(MAL) "The sunlight that would normally’

‘bounce back into space as heat'

‘will be trapped by the increased carbon dioxide. '

‘It's like rolling up the windows on a car'

‘parked in the sun, or like a greenhouse.’

We know that, MAL.

That's why it's called the greenhouse effect.

(MAL) ‘After a few years, this global warming will melt the polar ice'

‘raising the sea level all over the world’

‘changing weather, making storms worse. '

In short, by changing the past, you will wreck the future.

So?

Wrecking the future is what | do best!

And I'll make a fortune!

MAL, please stop wasting time.

Warm up our nuclear power source for the time pool.

Well, you did say please.

[machine whirring]

Starting tachyon flow.

[machine whirring]

[thuds]

[beeping]

[whirring]

You will make history, Greedly, as the first time-traveler.

[beeping]

Make history, nothing.

I'm going to rewrite history.

And there won't be any Planeteers in it!

[Greedly laughing]

[upbeat music on radio]

(Wheeler) ‘I'm going to show you guys a real’

‘New-York-style New Year's bash!’

As long as we avoid those Times Square crowds.

Wheeler, maybe you should give up this party idea.

Duh, it is not very practical.

| would rather be out stopping polluters.

Come on, guys! We deserve a holiday.

[music continues]

Planeteers, to the Crystal Chamber.

| hate to be a party pooper, but we have an eco-emergency.

Oh, no! Not on New Year's Eve!

(Gaia) Dr. Blight has created her most dangerous invention

in an underground lab in Greenland.

Dr. Blight again? Even mad scientists call her crazy.

What is she up to now?

She's going to send Hoggish Greedly back in time

to speed up global warming.

Chert vozmi! Earth is already warming up too fast.

That's why you must stop them.

But we'll miss my party!

Why us? Why not send in the army or something?

This is a job for Planeteers.

We will do it, Gaia! Hurry, Wheeler.

Hey!

[dramatic music]

Scratch one New Year's party.

We'll never be back by midnight.

If Greedly changes history, it will not be a happy new year.

[aircraft droning]

[whooshing]

This has to be the place.

Well, unless we wanna get out the shovels and dig

I'd better use fire!

boom

[instrumental music]

And we don't want to swim, either. Water!

[crackling]

[water splashing]

Come on!

[wind howling]

Whoa!

- Ma-Ti! - Uh!

[both screaming]

- Whoa! What is going on? Help! - Whoa!

[all screaming]

[all screaming]

[all screaming]

Wow! When this is all over, | wanna do that again!

Look! That must be the laboratory.

But there is no door!

[wind howling]

| will make one. Earth!

[Zapping]

[beeping]

(MAL) ‘Alright. We're ready.’

[all gasping]

[rumbling]

Gee, this time pool can sure make waves.

Don't you think, boss? Don't ya?

That's not the time pool. That's..

[rumbling]

The Planeteers?

We knocked, but no one answered.

[whirring]

Here's your answer, my little eco-darlings.

| call it my sonic boom box.

[laughs]

Ah.

[all groaning]

Oh..

Her weapon uses sound waves!

That is what | call noise pollution.

It may be noise pollution to you, Planet brats

but it's music to my ears.

[all groaning]

Look out!

[ice cracking]

It's shaking the ice loose!

[rumbling]

Time for teamwork! Let our powers combine!

- Earth! - Fire!

Wind!

- Water! - Heart!

[crackling]

By your powers combined

| am Captain Planet!

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

Hey, doc, looks like your music

is really bringing down the house!

This little piggy's going home!

Wait! Are y-you sure this thing's safe? A-are you?

Not really.

That's why you're going first.

| don't wanna be no guinea pig while you get to be a chicken.

Uh, what did you mean by that?

[gulps]

N-n-nothing personal, b-boss.

I'll Keep them busy! Hurry up and jump!

- Do you take requests? - Huh!

How about the sounds of silence?

[clattering]

[all gasping]

crack crack

Captain Planet, look out! The whole ceiling is giving way!

[rumbling]

Dr. Blight's evil plan isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[rumbling]

What are Rigger and Greedly up to?

Who cares if you belly-flop? Dive!

Whoa!

Stop!

[all grunting]

| am out of here! Yup! Yup!

Come back here, you traitor!

[rumbling]

Wheeler!

[rumbling]

It's a cave-in!

[gasps]

Out of my way, Rigger!

I'm splitting!

| think | can pick up this split.

[rumbling]

Yes! A spare! Alright!

[instrumental music]

P-please, spare us!

Ah, my aching bacon.

[rumbling]

[gasping]

[rumbling]

[thudding]

[beeping]

[dramatic music]

Captain Planet, we're trapped in here!

Yes, please get us out, Captain Planet.

| promise I'll be good from now on.

I'll tell any lie | can think of to get out of here.

We have got to rescue Wheeler!

| can dig it.

[grunting]

[grunts]

Just like a superhero.

When you really need him, he flakes out on you.

Your time machine's nuclear power source

contaminated the ice!

[sizzling]

Captain Planet, are you alright?

Stay back, Ma-Ti. There's radioactivity here.

It's weakening my powers.

[sizzling]

You mean you cannot rescue Wheeler?

[dramatic music]

But he will run out of air in there.

[grunts]

Ah.

[grunts]

[beeping]

That nuclear radiation is draining my powers.

We cannot just leave Wheeler in there to die!

With friends like you, he still has a fighting chance.

For now, the power is yours.

[whirring]

[dramatic music]

[snorts] Ha, you may have stopped us from time-traveling

‘but you'll never save your pal's hide. '

Let me try! Earth!

[rumbling]

No! It will cause a cave-in and crush them!

Wheeler!

[beeping]

It's been over an hour.

Looks like your hero has abandoned you.

[yawns]

It was your radioactivity that took away Cap's powers.

[yawns] This is the most boring

New Year's Eve I've ever spent.

Boredom's not making you yawn. It's carbon dioxide.

What? You mean we're running out of oxygen?

Not we, human. You.

(MAL) ‘| never use the stuff.’

Then this is it. Game over.

[yawns] Stop yapping.

All your heavy breathing is using up our oxygen faster.

It's not fair!

This is what | get for trying to save the world?

| could have been having fun tonight.

Sometimes | wish I'd never gotten this stupid ring.

Do you really mean that?

- Because | can arrange it. - Arrange what?

| can send you back in time to the moment

when you got that ring from Gaia.

When was that, anyway?

Uh, last January

the 5th.

You heard that, MAL. Start up the time pool.

Wheeler's going back in time, to January 5th.

And where were you that day?

Brooklyn, New York. But | really don't wanna go back in time.

Aren't you tired of being a Planeteer?

Of always recycling, carpooling, saving energy?

It's what everybody should do.

Forget should. Isn't it time you did what you wanna do?

But changing history, | don't know.

There are billions of other people who can fight pollution.

You've got your own life to worry about.

| don't trust you, Blight.

Then think about this, our only way out of this cave-in

is to change history, so it didn't happen.

Hm, | guess that makes sense.

- So go! - Aah!

[Wheeler screaming]

So long, sucker.

[Wheeler screaming]

[groans]

Hey, where am |? And when am |?

[intense music]

[laughs]

- Huh! - Ha-ha-ha..

Wait a minute. | remember this.

| made it! I've gone back in time!

[siren wailing]

[laughs]

Huh?

[clatters]

[grunting]

Ow! Ow! Wh..

(Wheeler) ‘That's me before | became a Planeteer!'

[crackling]

[whirring]

[fire crackling]

[whooshing]

Yow!

Hey, what's the big..

Whoa! You look just like me!

Who are you?

| am you, not too long from now.

What are you talking about?

| came back in time to warn you. Don't accept this ring.

This ring is gonna kill us! Leave it alone.

Time-travel, huh? Why should | believe all this?

I'm here, aren't I?

Yeah, | guess so. Right.

Now, get out of here. Go!

Gee, that was easy.

[thunder rumbling]

[wind howling]

Ah! Ow! Hey!

[thunder rumbling]

[crackling]

[thunder rumbling]

[wind howling]

My Planeteer insignia, it's gone! | did it!

Whoa!

Whoa! Gaia, what's the deal?

You scared the freckles off of me.

Wheeler, what have you done?

| stopped being a Planeteer, so | wouldn't die in an ice cave.

- That's all. - No, that's not all.

You've changed history. Look.

[dramatic music]

Yeah. It's hot.

And it was cold a minute ago.

But wait a second. How could | change the weather?

All | did was quit the Planeteers.

Yes, you quit, so you weren't there

to keep Greedly out of the time pool.

blub blub blub

He and Rigger went back in time to the 1950s

back before there were any pollution laws.

(Gaia) Greedly built huge factories to burn fuels wastefully.

(Rigger) ‘Going back to the '50s was a Stroke of genius, boss.'

No one worries about ecology back here.

(Greedly) Yeah, we can burn fossil fuels like there's no tomorrow.

And at this rate, there won't be a tomorrow.

[laughs]

[snorts]

[laughs]

Yeah, boss. Ha-ha.

| don't get it.

(Gaia) ‘They released so much carbon dioxide’

‘that now the Earth is much hotter.’

Why didn't Captain Planet stop them?

Captain Planet does not exist.

(Gaia) "You changed history, you never joined the Planeteers.’

‘So there are no Planeteers. '

"They each went their own separate way.’

blub blub blub

Oh, come on, Gaia.

You could have found someone else to be a Planeteer

instead of me.

No, each individual has a unique role to play.

You were supposed to set an example for countless others.

[scoffs] | don't buy it.

Other people will take up the slack.

If we were on Hope Island

| could show on the Planet Vision how wrong you are.

But if you believe your actions don't have an affect

why don't you step into the 21st century

and see what the world will be like?

Alright, | will.

| hate to use a dangerous device like the time pool

but you leave me no choice.

MAL, send Wheeler into the future.

Oh, really? And what if | refuse?

You're right near the North Pole.

What if the Earth's magnetic field

suddenly gets a lot more powerful?

[crackling]

Wait! Ouch! Stop! Don't!

The magnetism will erase my data! Ow!

[clicks tongue] Alright, I'll do it.

No need to get geophysical.

Send Wheeler to this same neighborhood 35 years from now.

(MAL) ‘But he can only stay for one hour.’

‘Then he must return to real time.’

Man, I'll see all the progress, the new inventions!

This is excellent!

We'll see if you like what you find.

Future, here | come.

blub blub blub

Yee-haw!

Whoa!

[water splashing]

Hey, what is this? This can't be my neighborhood.

Then again, it does look familiar.

[wave rumbling]

Ah!

[wave crashing]

[panting]

[wave crashing]

If | don't find some land, I'm gonna drown!

Oh-oh!

[wave crashing]

[dramatic music]

Ah! Ooh, ooh, ooh..

That was close! | almost didn't make it.

Now where am |?

Oh, no.

[music continues]

I'm on the Statue of Liberty!

It can't be.

New York City is underwater?

What happened to my home? What happened to the world?

Gaia, where are you?

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

[instrumental music]

[water sloshing]

The future of Earth rests in all our hands.

Please, don't waste water.

[upbeat music]

Please, do not waste energy.

[all coughing]

Please, don't waste your minds and bodies.

Please, don't waste our future.

The power is yours!

Earth!

- Fire! - Wind!

- Water! - Heart!

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

(Captain Planet) By your powers combined

| am Captain Planet!

~ Captain Planet he's our hero J

~ Gonna take pollution down to zero f

f He's our powers magnified f

f And he's fighting on the planet's side J

~ Captain Planet he's our hero J

~ Gonna take pollution down to zero f

£ Gonna help him put asunder J

~ Bad guys who like to loot and plunder I

You'll pay for this, Captain Planet!

~ We're the Planeteers you can be one too f

~ 'Cause saving our planet is the thing to do J

~ Looting and polluting is not the way f

~ Hear what Captain Planet has to say Jf

(Captain Planet) The power is yours!

[instrumental music]

(girl #1) Dic.

[instrumental music]