jerrylong58 Plastics are everywhere because they make products easier to ship, non-breakable, more attractive, and because they are cheap to manufacture. However the use of plastics to contain foods, beverages, to store foods, and for disposable water and soda bottles (etc.) are dangerous; for the long-term. We even use plastic bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, teething rings, bowls and utensils for our children; because they don't break. Just the use is bad enough, but heating the plastics is even more dangerous. Chemicals leach out of plastic containers, and slowly create serious irreversible health conditions. Plastic (for food uses) is going to become an epidemic; we have just scratched the surface. I am getting rid of 90% of all plastic containers, cups, ziplock bags and utensils in my house and am going to glass or stainless. Also limiting the packaging of bought products. The manufacturers aren't going to protect you. Health cures; natural apple cider vinegar, H2o2.

TheBlueHairedLawyer 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.

kosmasp Do you really want to know about Plastic? Do you? You know that those who are oblivious are most likely to be better off. So are you sure you want to watch this? I guess so. But then again, it's not like big secrets will get revealed. It's just that things get spoken out, that you might have thought about and forget ever since. Or are just trying to ignore. So will this help remember? Isn't it ironic me writing this on my plastic keyboard and you reading this on your monitor, that has all kinds of plastic too. Not as ironic as watching it on (plastic) Disc. But then again, how else would you be able to get (that little) information they are giving out.A movie that quite possibly might change your perspective on a few things, but don't expect it too boost you or make you happy-go-lucky.

diakyra 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.