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 Eastern Europe, 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!

[instrumental music]

(female #1) "Today, the world's biggest power plant’

‘with its own offshore oil field, starts operation. '

But many nations complain that the plant will put

too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Yet that doesn't worry the president of this country

who is here to dedicate this plant.

Mr. President, won't your country be adding

vast amounts of greenhouse gases to our atmosphere?

Uh, we've just made the hugest oil find in history.

And burning this low-cost oil

will be a big help to our troubled economy.

But what about the carbon dioxide that will release?

It acts like an invisible blanket

heating up the whole planet!

Take it easy, Kwame. You know he can't hear you.

[sighs] | Know.

| hear people are worrying about this global-warming thing.

Well, according to my science adviser

there's no real proof.

Now, if you'll excuse me, uh

| got a power plant to dedicate.

No real proof?

The president is getting very bad advice.

From a very bad adviser.

[crackling]

Dr. Blight!

(Gaia) ‘The president doesn't realize’

‘that this is all part of her insane experiment’

‘to make Earth too hot for humans. '

[sloshing]

Maybe it is time we made things too hot for her!

To the Eco-copter, everyone!

[upbeat music]

It's about time, doctor. It was getting stuffy in there.

(Blight) ‘Just put a cork in it, MAL.'

Voila!

I'm sorry | yelled, MAL baby.

This is quite a plant you built for us, Dr. Blight.

| can't wait to kick this baby into gear.

This dedication should be a blast, Mr. President.

[chuckles] Okay, uh..

| dedicate this

the Blight Power Plant!

[coughing]

[whirring]

[coughing]

Surprised? That's my new gas-guzzler rocket fuel.

[coughing] Not exactly the cleanest-burning, is it?

No, but so powerful

it'll get that space probe of yours to Venus in hours.

Oh, really? Ahem. Alright. I'd like to see that.

[instrumental music]

| took the liberty of refueling your rocket.

(Blight) ‘The mileage isn't great, but the pickup's out of this world!’

[upbeat music]

(Linka) Oh, no! We are too late!

The president has started up the power plant!

When he hears about Blight's dirty tricks

he will shut it down. The only problem is--

- You in the copter! - Who's that?

(male #1) ‘Land at once, or we'll force you down!'

The only problem is we'll never get in to see anybody.

[helicopters whirring]

Please! We must see the president!

Sorry, kid, your best hope is to stand

along the motorcade route and, uh, wave.

Wave? That's what we need!

While | am getting a couple of us inside.

Water!

[crackling]

[water splashing]

- Ah! - Ah!

- What the.. - Whoa!

[water splashing]

Wind!

[crackling]

[wind howling]

We had five suspects here, now there's two missing.

[crackling]

(president) ‘Well, good thing this is just a test shot.'

| don't wanna risk astronauts’ lives with an experimental fuel.

Really? Why not?

If we could only talk to him alone.

We cannot convince him Blight is bad news

when she is the one that he listens to.

But | Know something that any president must listen to, wasps.

[wasps buzzing]

Heart!

[wasps buzzing]

[intense music]

Oh! Look out! They're gonna sting us!

Whoa! I'm getting airsick! Ooh..

Hey! This way, Mr. President. Hurry!

[Suchi screeching]

Phew! Thanks, fellas.

It seems we stumbled into a hornets’ nest.

(Kwame) ‘Sir, you are about to be the victim of a real sting.'

By a real pest, Dr. Blight.

My science adviser?

Uh! Aah!

Allow me, doctor.

[crackling]

Thanks, MAL.

Oh, no! Where's the president?

Gone for an elevator ride with those Planet-twits, | fear.

What? The Planeteers are here?

Oh, no! They'll tell him everything.

He'll shut down my power plant.

Unless they were to get lost in space.

I'm on your wavelength, MAL baby.

Just let me reprogram the orbiter.

(president) Well, it just doesn't make sense, and even if this

greenhouse thing is true, | don't believe it, by the way.

Please, you must shut down her plant.

Every hour it is spewing tons of carbon dioxide

into our atmosphere.

Wouldn't be sound economics. l..

[rumbling]

What in the world?

I'm tied in. We launch in ten seconds.

[automated response] ‘Ten seconds.’

Well, then what are we doing here?

[automated response] ‘Nine seconds.’

'Eight.’

Hey! That rocket's not supposed to be launched now!

[gasps] Look on the gantry crane!

(Gi) ‘Kwame and Ma-Ti and the president!’

- 'SIx.' - They'll be burned to a crust!

That's crisp. But not if | do some burning first!

Fire!

[crackling]

- 'Four.' - | don't get it!

| cut the control cable, but it's still blasting off.

[automated response] ‘Three.’

Quick! Inside!

- ‘Two.’ - Hey!

[grunts]

[whirring]

- Ya-ah! - 'One.'

- Uh, uh.. - 'Lift-off.'

[automated response] 'Lift-off.'

[indistinct chatter]

Your gas-guzzler rocket is carrying the president

‘to new heights of popularity.’

[grunts] What have you done?

- Ah.. - H-heart.

Planeteer alert.

Let our powers combine.

Earth!

- Fire! - Wind!

- Water! - Heart!

[rumbling]

[crackling]

[Zapping]

By your powers combined

| am Captain Planet!

(all) Go, Planet!

Uh-oh. Someone's polluting the air.

That's not gonna make my job any easier.

[whooshing]

[instrumental music]

What? They're part of a plot to kidnap the president!

Arrest 'em!

Hey, we're no kidnapers.

Mission control, patch me in to the space orbiter.

G-force is too strong.

(male #2) ‘Mr. President, can you hear me?'

‘Mission control cannot turn you around!’

‘Sir, please respond!’

Go on, Cap. You gotta catch 'em.

[intense music]

[coughs]

Man, this rocket sure needs a tune-up.

MAL, get off your disk drive and do something

before he rescues them!

Keep your shirt on, doctor.

Time for booster rocket separation.

[music continues]

[grunting]

(Captain Planet) ‘Whoa!’

boom

(Ma-Ti) ‘Kwame, | feel light-headed.’

That's not the only thing that is light.

We, we must be in outer space.

[chuckles] As Suchi just found out.

This is not funny, Ma-Ti.

Now we are beyond the reach of Captain Planet and even Gaia!

[dramatic music]

Ah! Just missed them!

Planeteers

the power is yours.

[crackling]

[Zapping]

[crackling]

Oh, no!

Kwame and Ma-Ti in outer space.

Ah. Can't return their powers.

[music continues]

splash

Where are we headed, Kwame?

(MAL) ‘This is your captain speaking.’

Not the one you were hoping for, of course.

(Kwame) ‘MAL! He must have infiltrated the ship's computer.'

Welcome aboard our one-way flight to Earth's sister planet.

- 'Venus.' - Venus, huh?

Well, should be safe till a rescue ship comes.

(MAL) ‘Ha-ha-ha ho-ho! That's a hot one, prez, old boy.’

Look at Venus on infrared

the hottest planet in the solar system.

Phew! Good thing we're just orbiting.

Oh! Did | forget to mention?

| reprogrammed this orbiter.

You're going to crash-land on Venus.

- What? - 'Ha-ha-ha..'

[Suchi chattering]

[crackles]

[dramatic music]

(MAL) Ha-ha ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha ha-ha-ha!

Wait a sec. | know you. You're Dr. Blight's computer.

She must have Shanghaied us!

You'll enjoy Venus, Mr. President, a balmy climate.

Today's forecast calls for temperatures in the low 800s.

Eight-hundred degrees? Hot enough to melt lead.

So keep your heads inside. Ha-ha ha-ha-ha!

Well, I'm no rocket scientist

but | can see, to turn this ship around

I'm gonna have to disconnect you.

Naughty, naughty, prez, old boy.

[whirring]

Yow!

Now, hold tight, everyone.

| know a shortcut!

[whooshing]

(all) Whoa-oh! Oh, oh!

Who-oa!

Ooh!

Kwame!

MAL has us trapped.

[seagulls squawking]

[groans]

Well, at least my Earth power still works.

So does your heart power.

And you're going to need it for what lies ahead.

Come. Look at the Planet Vision.

[dramatic music]

whirr whirr

Keep them handcuffed. They're all part of the plot.

Don't worry, Dr. Blight, they're not going anywhere

till we get our president back.

| like the way you put that.

[gas hissing]

(MAL) ‘Doctor, your power plant's leaking carbon dioxide’

into the air vents.

It will put everyone in there to sleep.

What a gas, MAL!

Did you ever have one of those days

when everything was working out perfectly?

[groaning]

We must get out of here.

Well, if only we knew..

[yawns] ...what happened to Captain Planet.

(Gi) ‘| hope Ma-Ti and Kwame are all..'

[Gi yawns]

(Captain Planet) No! No! Don't go to sleep!

You need fresh air, and fast!

[grunts] Ooh!

You don't have the power of wind anymore, remember?

Wow. What a comedown.

(Gaia) ‘But there's another way to stop Dr. Blight.'

If we combine all our power, we can reach Ma-Ti and Kwame.

[crackling]

(president) ‘And shut down plants, throw people out of work'

‘all for some crazy theory that might not even happen?’

I'm sorry. I'm not gonna do it.

(Captain Planet) ‘Ma-Ti. Ma-Ti, can you hear me?’

Huh? I'm getting something! Everyone concentrate.

[whooshing]

- Who's that? - Captain Planet!

Yes, we hear you!

Mr. President, if you see what you're risking

maybe you'll change your mind.

Tricks won't make me change my mind.

Heard all this before about the too-much-carbon-dioxide thing.

(Captain Planet) We don't know how much carbon dioxide is too much

‘put the last decade was one of the hottest in history.’

‘If we make things worse with greenhouse gases'

‘the polar ice could melt and flood every coastal city.'

‘In New York, rising seas will take a bite’

‘out of the Big Apple.’

[dramatic music]

‘As for Hong Kong, it'll be long gone..'

[birds chirping]

",..while the only tourists left in Venice will be scuba divers.’

‘For humans, it would mean farmland turned to deserts’

‘the collapse of entire economies’

‘hunger on an unimaginable scale.’

(president) ‘But it probably won't be that bad.’

Maybe. Or maybe it'll be worse.

(Captain Planet) ‘A real climate change means'

‘every animal will have to adapt or die.’

‘In time, the lucky ones might find new habitats’

‘or even evolve new physical traits.’

[chattering]

[screeching]

Uh, still just an unproved theory.

Need proof on all this.

What will it take to convince you?

Gee. It sure is getting warm. Phew!

Ow! That thing's burning hot!

There is your proof, Mr. President.

That is the atmosphere of Venus, a real greenhouse planet.

What's Venus got to do with Earth?

(Kwame) ‘Venus is a lot like Earth, but it's all desert’

‘too hot for water or any kind of life as we know it.’

- 'Hdow come?’ - 'Because..'

(Ma-Ti) ‘Clouds on Venus are full of'

‘greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.’

‘They trap the sun's heat..'

Like an out-of-control greenhouse.

You mean the Earth could end up like this?

Do you want to take that chance?

No. Never!

Mission control, this is the president calling.

Now, get somebody over to the Blight Power Plant and d.. Aah!

Who said you could make a call on my line?

Oh, MAL broke their connection

before the president could give the order.

Then you must get to the power plant and stop Blight yourself.

But, Gaia, what good is a superhero without superpowers?

You still have the power that counts most, your courage.

Thanks, Gaia.

Who says | can't fly?

[whirring]

Time to think about the big picture.

Got a planet to save. Charge!

[dramatic music]

So there's no more electricity between us, eh?

Maybe this will brighten your day.

[Zapping]

Yow!

[Zapping]

Aah! Uh.. Whoa!

[Zapping]

Whoa!

[Zapping]

Got to..

Aah!

Ah.. Oh! Ah..

[whirring]

I've toyed with you long enough.

Now it's time to finish you off?

[intense music]

Uh-oh.

Good job, Suchi.

| can feel the gravity of Venus.

Not to mention the gravity of the situation.

We must get manual control.

- 'We are going to crash!’ - ‘Got it!'

(Kwame) ‘Now | just hope we have enough fuel to get us back to Earth.’

Me, too.

Phew! Man, am | bushed.

[gas hissing]

Got to..

[yawns] escape.

[Snoring]

There's no one to stop me now!

Greenhouse planet, here we come!

Doctor, um, they-they cut my link to the space orbiter.

So what? There's no one who can save this planet now.

Um, uh, except maybe Captain Planet?

No! It's impossible!

[whirring]

It, it's Captain Planet!

He's got a crowbar?

[grunts]

Let's just say, ah, | gotta conserve power.

Good thing | found the handcuff keys.

[gas hissing]

Wow! | never knew what a hard job | have.

Oh, my back!

(Blight) ‘Well, well, look at the mighty Captain Planet.’

Looks like he's been demoted to Private Planet.

[yawning] What is going on?

- What? - What?

May | offer you a light, doctor?

MAL, you're such a gentleman.

Lay low, Planeteers. I'll deal with Blight's burning ambition.

Come on, doctor, give it your best shot.

[grunts] Whoa! Uh..

You can run, Planet, but you can't hide.

Oh, no! Here comes more trouble.

No! They can't be back!

MAL, I'm gonna boot you right in your software.

Hey, Blight, you couldn't torch the broadside of a tar pit.

- Aah! - 'Wow!'

[chuckles] Talk about cutting off your hose to spite your face.

[whooshing]

| have never landed a spaceship before

but here goes!

[whooshing]

[water splashing]

[whirring]

[engine revving]

Are you alright, Mr. President?

| will be, as soon as we shut down

the Blight Power Plant.

You heard the president!

Prez baby, be reasonable!

If you don't like burning oil, |

I've got a great nuclear plant for you.

Get this woman out of my sight!

How about burning toxic waste?

[instrumental music]

Well, Planeteers, I'm due for a major recharge

and I'm not leaving a wake-up call.

The power is yours!

[whooshing]

So, Kwame, tell me more about this solar stuff

and that wind-power thing.

Read my lips, Mr. President, they work.

[laughing]

[mumbles]

That's pretty darn good.

[laughing] You kid..

(Planeteers) Go, Planet!

(Wheeler) Our world is an exciting place.

(Linka) Biology, chemistry, geology and other sciences

help us understand how it works.

For example, biology is the study of living things.

(Kwame) And geology explains the Earth's

physical structure and how it was formed.

(Gaia) The more you know about our Earth

the more you will appreciate its beauty and complexity.

So learn all you can. 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]

[instrumental music]