This documentary certainly has an interesting subject, but doesn't make much out of it. Writer-director Werner Boote flies around the world, talks to a lot of interesting people, and generally tries to emulate Michael Moore's deadpan-"I'm just a regular Joe who's asking simple questions"-style, but whenever someone says something interesting he'll cut him or her short and flick the channel, i. e. move on to another thread of his movie. The movie dwells in alarmism and doom mongering -- it's not "Let's explore the downsides of plastics" but "OMG we're hooked on the deadly drug that is plastic". Plastic materials pollute, and plastic softeners are hazardous. The movie could have explored those two issues and shown us how big the problem really is, weighing the many advantages of plastics against their disadvantages. Instead Boote publicly harries the petty PR-lady of some Chinese plastics factory because she won't let him film in every part of the factory. It didn't exactly move me to the edge of my seat, and after about one hour into the documentary I gave up and switched off.
Review of Plastic Planet
