Thoughts on: Captain Planet Movie

Recently there are rumors going around about a possible live-action Captain Planet movie. I'm probably one of the few fans of the actual show (since any reference to the show on the internet tends to be negative based). Given it had so many moral and environmental messages it was trying to convey, it's probably people saying "We don't want you telling us what to do, just give us action". But anyway, my thoughts:

First up, I find most shows/games/etc that get turned into movies don't turn out so well. Given that one of the major people behind this also worked on the last Transformers movie really has me worried. Why? The human factor. While Captain Planet's heroes were the Planeteers, Transformers were the Transformers, but it never seemed like it (and what the hell did they do to Soundwave?), it just seem too focused on the humans. If they plan on going down the 'humans' path, then at least limit the focus to just the Planeteers, not all sorts of people as it just leads to boring sub-plots and stupid awkward situations that drive me nuts. I would still like to see the Wheeler/Linka romance in it though. As for the character actors, I'm not sure since I can't think of any teen-like characters that would fit each roll.

Secondly, the semi-human/non-human like characters. I would like them to at least go for a decent villain, but actually keep as close as possible to the looks of them. Take Hoggish Greedly. He's a large, overwieght, pig-like character, so keep him like that and not just name a fat guy that name and be done with it. I think Dr. Blight would be the best villain to use for a starter movie, but they could even attempt to get Meg Ryan to play her (she was the cartoon Dr. Blight's first voice actress). Heck, then they could get Tim Curry to voice MAL, Dr. Blight's computer A.I. assistant (Tim Curry was MAL's second voice actor).

Finally, Gaia and Captain Planet. Would they get Whoopi Goldberg to play as Gaia again? Would they get Captain Planets original voice actor back? And would he look good or bad as a CGI character? Again, these questions may not seem like much, but if you take a T.V show and replace everything so that it resembles very little like it, it tends to remove the nostalgia experience, which if at least half your ordinance.

Apart from those worries, I think it's a great idea. In this day and age, Captain Planet needs to return to educate the younger audience, and if they can modernize them without going overboard, it should do alright.