Captivating movie !

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Raises awareness, overall slightly lacks analytical perspective. There are only a few, but considerably weird bits with sexual jokes and some gender panic.

Has a lot of information that is at once provocative to even the dullest mind.There can be no doubting the importance of this kind of media coverage.Plastic bags = self destruction.The data and imagery, the accuracy, it is all blindingly serious.There is a slight absurdity about it all and this is well suited to the topic which is easily argued as the purest form of absurdity.There is none more insane then our destruction of what we have and are, self sabotage while ignorance is bliss.Its good that it has a global slant despite forcing the U.S condition.I recommend this movie for all people. Hippies and non hippies alike. It should be essential educational material.

This movie follows up on the famous line from "Mrs. Robinson" by showing just how indispensible, polluting, and even murderous plastics have become. Jeb is a genial guide through the world of entrenched plastic consumption and his message is both compelling and tragic. How sad that our litigious world is set up so you can't use your own packaging -- say, as you go through a McDonald's drive-thru -- even if you'd want to.Parts of the movie are humorous. My eight-year-old son and I had to laugh during the scene where well-meaning Jeb buys more than he plans and struggles to leave the store without a bag.Other parts of the movie were rather chilling, for example, when he talked about toxicity and children. And then of course you have the thousands of sea animals who choke to death.The movie has affected me strongly and I use less plastic now. I hope lots of people can see this.

Bag It is a documentary clearly in the style of Michael Moore's filmmaking. With humor and charm, Jeb Berrier investigates the path taken by plastic bags as they journey from the market where a clerk puts our groceries in them to the air, ocean, creeks and shipping containers where they become a source of suffering and ugliness.Cut to cheerful Mr. Berrier walking through a supermarket, holding up other examples of plastic packaging. He manages in a moment to make these items appear ridiculous as he looks into the camera and asks why we need all this plastic. Does it really serve a purpose? If so, then why do we throw it away? Not just a little bit of it, but collectively millions of tons each year.I confess that I have been one of the millions of people who, though I know better, have continued to shop without bothering to bring a bag. I justified my sloth by telling myself that the bags get recycled, so what does it matter? After seeing Bag It I can no longer think this way. Bag It is an important movie that I believe will have important consequences, both for those who see it and for the environment. But most important of all, Berrier, like Michael Moore, pulls off the coup of making his point while making us enjoy watching him. See it to be entertained, informed and enlightened.