Why does the best friend's little sister have a rivalry with the female lead? It adds nothing to the plot and only makes her appear whiny and immature! Why did the Colonel sabotage the lunar project? For vanity? Personal belief? Hell if I know!
And the main male lead, oh boy, what an obnoxious bible-basher! - he will hunt you down until he converts you into a tree-hugger like him, and if you say "NO!" for the umpteenth time, he can only repeat "why not???" as if the concept that people have different beliefs doesn't exist for him!
Which is the biggest problem with this film - the "nature" it so trumpets is totally a DICTATORSHIP! Arbitrarily controlling water to keep humans on their knees begging? USING CHILDREN AS BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AGAINST OTHER HUMANS FOR THE INTEREST OF TREES? This is an evil tyrant! And we're supposed to ROOT for these evil things?!
And I'm no climate-denier! I want to protect nature! Nausicaa managed to make horrifying giant bugs humanistic, but I honestly want to eradicate these dictating monster trees from existence, along with their collaborating traitors!
This is a horrible propaganda film that managed to turn me, an environmentalist, against the "nature" depicted in this terrible film!
But on a genuine note of reflection, why DO we always portray technology and artificial creation as the bad guys? Are we still cavemen afraid of the light of a fire? Why must "nature" claim to be the only authentic thing worth protecting, but not technology, discoveries, history, CIVILISATION?
I weep for the animalistic tree-huggers of Neutral City! I weep for the progress that mankind has worked so hard for, and so casually abandoned! This isn't a good thing! This is the barbarians burning Rome and destroying civilisation and enlightenment! If the trees are Nazis then the enhanced, and the protagonist, are their willing Nazi-collaborators!
