Home

Plot synopsis:
On the run from their enemy, the so-called planet-destroying Gorg, an alien race known as the Boov find Earth a suitable place to call "home". Led by Captain Smek (Steve Martin), they commence their "friendly" invasion of the planet, relocating the humans, whom the Boov deem as simple and backwards, to other parts of the planet while the Boov inhabit their homes in a quick and bloodless conquest. One of the Boov, named Oh (Jim Parsons), is a more excitable, freethinking member of the species, who decides to invite the Boov to his apartment for a housewarming party, despite the race's antipathy towards him. Not far from Oh is a fourteen year old girl named Gratuity 'Tip' Tucci (Rihanna), who drives away through her home city to find her mother Lucy (Jennifer Lopez) after being separated from her during the invasion, leaving her with only her calico cat Pig and fueling her hatred for the Boov.
Oh runs into the street to meet up with a Boov cop named Kyle (Matt Jones), who, like the rest of the Boov, refuses to befriend him. Oh invites him to the party but accidentally sends a mass invite to every Boov on Earth. However, the "send all" button he pressed actually sends the invite to absolutely every alien race in the entire universe including the Gorg. Everyone, aggravated with Oh for revealing their location to the enemy, starts chasing him down. Oh runs into a convenience store to hide just as Tip and Pig enter the same store to grab supplies. They come across each other, and after Tip's car fails to start, Oh transforms it into a fantastical, hovering craft to continue transportation. Oh hitches a ride with Tip when he promises to help her find Lucy, but unfortunately, they must to go to the Boov Command Center in Paris and locate her from there.
After reaching the Boov Command Center, which is in the now-floating Eiffel Tower, Oh manages to get into his account, and deletes the message with just a second to spare before it reaches the Gorg. He then plugs in Tip's brain to help her find Lucy. They eventually trace her location to Australia, where she is also looking for her daughter. The other Boov then find the two and try to "erase" Oh, while Tip grabs the gravity manipulation system and flips it over, causing the whole Tower to tilt upside down.
As Oh and Tip head off to Australia, they see other Boov riding by them in fear, and realize that a Gorg ship is close behind them. Tip and Oh manage to knock it down, but in the process a chunk of it hits them and they lose their slushie fuel, causing the car to crash-land. They come across the fallen Gorg ship and find out that it is actually a drone. Oh recovers a special chip and uses it to get their car up and running.
Tip and Oh make it to Australia and see the Boov evacuating to their mothership. When they land the car, Tip immediately starts looking for her mother, but Oh insists on evacuating with the other Boov instead. Tip gets angry at him for trying to break their promise again, and she declares that they were never meant to be friends. Heartbroken, Oh returns to the ship. The Gorg mothership comes close to the Boov ship, but Oh pulls out the Gorg chip and uses it to fly the ship further away from the Gorg. The Boov become astonished at Oh's plan, but Smek becomes upset and reminds everyone that he is the captain. However, after Oh tells the Boov about what he learned from Tip, The Boovs then mutiny against Smek and Kyle grabs Smek's "Shusher" (a scepter with a rock on top of it, which Smek stole from the Gorg) and gives it to Oh, declaring him the new captain, much to Smek's annoyance.
Tip rushes aimlessly around the city to find Lucy, but in vain. Just when all hope seems lost, Oh returns to her side and helps her track down Lucy. The mother and daughter finally reunite and thank Oh. Suddenly, the Gorg mothership descends upon the planet, and Oh realizes that they want the rock on the Shusher, since Smek had previously stolen it from them. Oh runs to the ship to try to attract its attention, locking Tip and Lucy in the car for safety. Tip breaks out of the car and shines a light in the Gorg Commander (Brian Stepanek)'s face to bring his attention to Oh as he holds the rock up. The Gorg Commander halts the ship as it crunches down on the ground, with Oh directly in its path. Tip rushes to rescue him, but Oh is seemingly crushed beneath the machine. It backs up and Oh is revealed to be unharmed. The Gorg Commander emerges from his armor to show that he is actually a harmless starfish-like creature. Oh returns the rock to him, which turns out to be an egg for millions of developing Gorg larvae; the next generation of Gorg, revealing that the Gorg Commander/"Father" had been the last of his kind, alone and almost extinct. He thanks Oh and departs.
Two weeks later, the humans have returned to their original homes, and Oh finally gets to have his party at his apartment, with both humans and Boov in attendance. Tip plays her music and gets the rest of the Boov to experience dancing for the first time, while other Boov, including a reformed Smek, party on the moon, and thousands of ships from other planets, including the Gorg, head to Earth for Oh's party upon receiving his invite.

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Review:
No wonder Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent 15 years preparing for the production of Home.The narration is top-notch, arranged in perfect logic sense and fueled with precise and profound wording, reminds me of audio versions of Scientific American.
I had thought it was a pity that David Attenborough wasn't a part of this amazing project, but Glenn Close, five-time Oscar nominee, indeed gave a mesmerizing voice performance, and along with a powerful score, deeply drew me into Home's elaborate illustrations and logical reasonings.Some might think this documentary is so emotive that it's more of a propaganda despite how fact-based it is, but isn't a subject like this meant to be emotive?
No this is not the kind of documentary that presents you with non-judged information for you to consider and debate- of course it is not, it's telling you the most overwhelming and alarming truth through worldwide facts and images in a careful logic flow, and yes with a great lot of passion built in!
Like said many times in the movie, everything is linked, I find tons of images flashing in my head rapidly after watching Home, and more importantly, now I look at them linked together in a meaningful way.Let me put it this way, if the entire human race were to be extinct on this planet, Home would be the recording that we should bury deep underground for extra-terrestrials to find out what happened and learn the lesson of our species- it is that good..
The cinematography of this documentary is amazing, even the images of pollution of the environment that humans have caused look remarkably appealing to the eye.
Without a rapidly growing global awareness of the situation we are facing, we will leave a much harsher environment for our children, in which natural resources on which we all depend will become increasingly scarce.I am a student in my twenties; the state the world is in today, is how my generation will inherit it, before we will have had the chance to have any effect on this trend.
Home is a documentary about Earth, humanity, nature, where we're going and what we've been.
Shot in 54 countries with aerial footage it's a combination of all the navel-gazing movies we've seen lately like Planet Earth and Baraka.
Showing different locations on Earth, the stunning gliding shots of our planet's more beautiful locations as well as the terrible damage we've caused.
In that way it's much different than Baraka and Planet Earth, the two films I compared this to.
It's not just about the nature but the capitalist system which has destroyed the planet and brought humanity to its knees.Many of these changes have occurred in the past 50-100 years.
Some of this information I knew but it's good to be reminded how we live in the western world which is rapidly destroying the planet and taking all the innocent passengers along with us.The movie was released on the internet, television and internet on the same day.
It's on YouTube in its entirety, but I downloaded a high quality version from One Big Torrent which was very nice to watch.Probably one of the best movies of 2009 and one of the best documentaries of the year as well.
Sweeping, glorious, rich shots of our planet, like we've never seen it before.Even more powerful than that - the content of this documentary.
It is really quite scary watching the desperate facts this film delivers one-by-one.At the same time, Home finishes in a upbeat manner.
Home will definitely change the way I live my life - it's that powerful.Go watch it..
Uplifted.Question: How can a company (the one that sponsored the viewing of this movie) (Europa?) that thrives on promoting luxury and excess, care so much for the natural and inherent things of earth?
Yann-Arthur Bertrand is known in France for being the best Earth photograph involved in ecology ever.This movie is just beau-ti-ful.You never saw the world that way.You never knew there were so much diversity all around the Earth, so much things to see, so much beautiful creations.And you never knew there were so much left.A must-watch.Wonderful scenes, really beautiful pictures of Earth.Tip : there is a long-version..
I love the Planet Earth-Series and other nature/environment-related movies, but this one is a little...special.
Well, there are several things:The whole movie has a kind of instructive touch (as in preaching from above to dumb people) and it seems as if the filmmakers thought of their audience as stupid and therefore repeat everything over and over again - maybe they have to, but it still leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.
The narration makes this movie seem a little alarmist, but not in a way that shocks you and makes you want to change things, but in a way that makes you think 'Yes, yes, I know!
| The movie basically only complains about the destruction of the earth by humans but offers no real solutions.
It starts with stating that certain things are bad about the way humans treat the earth, but keeps adding stuff until you just don't care anymore.
Starting from 'Oh, yes, that's interesting, I didn't know that!' you will go to 'Okay, so everything is bad?' This IMHO also weakens the message of the movie a lot, the filmmakers should have just focused on fewer issues to tackle instead of being against environmental destruction, industrialism, globalization and the military.
While this is not necessarily bad, it changes the focus of the film from being a very boring documentary (which, as I have already said, it is not) to what it really is, a beautiful, but still only mildly entertaining movie.So, in short: If you haven't seen the Planet Earth-Series, go see it now!
It's about time someone really tried to sum up what the human condition is, and the relationship between our condition and the condition of our planet.The visuals for 'Home' are for the most part near perfect- pinpointing the beauties and miracles of this world, whilst also the disgraces and disasters with a total sensitivity and respect for all sides of the issue.
In some ways this film avoids a one-sided approach, with interesting stats showing how our attempts at alternative fuels have their own negative effects, but for the first section particularly it felt like some very dated notes on the history of the earth.
In most cases that doesn't bother me, but in a high budget film production it does, and it certainly doesn't help the reputation of the Eco-warriors (hippies come to mind!)After watching this movie though, I'll admit that I had mostly forgotten the flaws because it really forces you to think about the issues.
Watch this movie- the cinematography and well crafted narrative will open your eyes to the fragile state of our planet and cause you to appreciate your place in it more.
And, yes, you should do something about climate change.What bothers me is the proposition that earth would be in 'perfect balance', if only humans learned to behave.No it isn't.
It's really sad to see so few votes about something that was done by the people who actually feel responsible about our "home" planet Earth.
Other times it feels like a National Geographic film but without the top-notch awe-inspiring action shots of animals in their natural environment.
At one point early in the film the writer says something like "Sharing is the way of nature" and I blurted out "Sharing is caring!"The first 30 minutes is very tedious because they don't really tell you anything you don't know already and it leaves you wondering where the film is going.
It explores the corruption in the agricultural industry, where in America we produce enough surplus food that we could end starvation around the world but instead we waste it on things like the meat packing industry.This movie demonstrates how the meat-packing industry wastes massive amounts of water, power, and food where the meat is about 5% of the food that was given at hand.
They also describe how the meat packing industry is one of the greatest causes of air pollution because in fact many of the chemicals released from meat packing are worse then CO2 and the UN said that meat packing contributes more to global warming than the cars.They don't mention it but meat and other forms of processed foods are really bad for people's health which is why the more developed societies have things like Colon Cancer, Heart Disease, and Obesity, well poorer societies do not and it is extremely cruel to animals.
This is why I personally am a vegetarian.This movie even explores how some people are using solar power to create a better life-style but that is not enough we need a government in the world that actually cares about this stuff instead of caring about pleasing the corporate bosses who are destroying the earth anyways.This movie also explains how we are cutting down the Amazon rain-forest and we have already got rid of more then 20% of it and if we get rid of the entire thing there won't be much hope left for humanity.
Watch this film and see how everything on our beautiful planet is interlinked.
How many tons of oil did Yann Bertrand Arthus and his crew spoil on capturing these images while filming at different locations all over the world flying hundreds of ours in airplanes , helicopters and hot air balloons capturing landscapes in order to bring they'r message of a spill-sick humanity across?This film is exactly what it pretended to set out against.a massive (maybe even toxic ) waste !.
Visually stunning aerial photography of the Earth in a two-hour film with an ecological education agenda.
Home uses stunning aerial footage to tell the natural history of the planet and show how human civilization are destroying the natural cycle of life that was provided to us by Earth.
Home as a visually-stunning documentary serves an important role in cleanly communicating the history of the planet, its unique systems, and the ways in which humanity has altered them.
The movie gives beautiful aerial views of the planet to give a visual on the beauty of Earth and also the impact of human beings.
The aerial views makes one really notice how beautiful Earth is as our HOME.
The combination of the aerial views and the tone of the narrator are almost meant to scare the viewer in the hopes of motivating viewers to act on stopping the negative impacts on the Earth by people.
And most of us know that we are depleting our earth in a concerning way, but the facts shown in the documentary still came as a shock to me.It should be mandatory for every human being on earth to watch this documentary.
So one could mute the film and see a lot of lovely natural scenes without it being destroyed by dumb propaganda.If a team of scientists, taking their field seriously (not sold out to First Earth "hate people" ideology), should make a tedious and accurate discussion of all that is false in some way in this film, the report would probably be between 5000 and 10000 pages!!
This documentary is about our planet Earth told to us by narrator.
The points taken off are for the deceptive nature of its presentation on the disc.Sure, I'm all for saving the planet and absolutely support the need to handle global climate change.
Combining beautiful footage of spectacular, mundane, and even unpleasant scenes with a wave of statistics in the narration makes for a disjointed experience at best.If it had been presented as what it was (or even described as such on the cover) I would not have had as much of a problem with it.My recommendation: turn the sound off and put on some relaxing music for the first 90 minutes or so.
Appealing for a stunning Earth's landscape this unusual doc using wisely an aerial footage to draw up their main purpose, forgeting that people has been studied for years how our planet works, the powerful Sun send more thermal heating than all pollutants industries around the world, they try out make a brainwahing and scary the fools's mind over dry land, missing rain forest, fresh water and try to sell us a upcoming doomsday scenario forgeting about ice age that devasting the Earth without mercy, it would be man's guilt??, whose was the guilt anyway?
acctually the manking needs a food and the Earth has a wide range to share us, just specific places were devasting by men, but it make a micro damage system that won't change anything in whole climate, of course the manking needs to review their demand tryng don't waste fresh water, make efforts to news effluent treatment, forgeting news weapons, we already enough, sharing money to aid the poor people around the world, but the kind of men that we had and ruled us wants more money only, maybe in the near and upcoming generations all things changes...for now that is the real sad truth unfortunatelly!!Resume:First watch: 2012 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.
This film is a collage of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's aerial shots of the Earth, with a commentary about how mankind is spoiling our beautiful home planet.Yann Arthus-Bertrand is famous for his amazingly beautiful shots of the world, and "Home" is no exception to his previous work.
But there is always a catch that can spoil any kind of beauty: in this case it's unbearable BS-propaganda from nice NWO guys who want to exterminate human population of this planet.
A real visual treat throughout the documentary and then the hard facts about humanity's impact on the bio-diversity of our planet over a short period of time hit home very well.
What an irony fact.The footages used in this great documentary are of very high quality, beautifully edited to illustrate a simple idea: save the earth.The elegant music tenderly melt with the pictures, somehow reminds me of Kubrick's 2001.I watched the film with English VO, Glenn Close's voice is very warm and convincing.A great modern documentary for the masses..
Speaking for mother Earth is Glenn Close; systematically narrating how in just two hundred thousand years of existence, humans are changing the face of a four billion year old planet.
This is shown through some of the most stunning and colorfully vivid aerial footages I have ever seen of this planet we call home.
Perhaps his greatest intention from capturing Earth's spectacular imagery is to lay in plain view what we have now, and what we are likely to loose in our current trend to over indulge; making what we see a haunting dream, just 15 years from now.Speaking of over indulgence, in her narration, Close boldly names a few cities that are currently at the peak of plundering the planet.
Stunning and unique all-aerial visuals, great emotive soundtrack, and an admirable attempt to raise awareness about the interconnectivity of Earth's ecosystems; But anyone with even some basic education in biology and ecology should feel conflicted enjoying this documentary.This doc presents and promotes a quasi-mystical outlook upon our planet's ecosystems and our place within them.
While covering 56 countries from air, there is not a single shot made from eye level of a human which vastly gives the gods view of what's truly the planet earth looks like.
Several times throughout the picture, it is underlined that in the past 5 decades, human kind has changed the face of our planet more than it has in it's 200.000 years of existence.
Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate." (quote from the Homeproject Youtube channel - the link is above).I recommend the documentary to everybody who still believes that living the American dram of heaving a big house and 2 cars is still the way to go..
And yes i HAVE seen a lot of the other recent environmental and nature documentaries and I also liked Al Gore's "truth" :-) .Consider several shots where you cannot immediately figure out what on "earth" you are watching other than some beautiful colors that might as well be an impressionist painting and then the camera slowly zooms out to reveal for instance the plastic covered fields in Almeria or rice fields on a mountain or suddenly some humans appear floating into the frame in the distance and the camera rises to show them in a boat on a canal...
For people who knows Bertrand's still photographs this is not surprising, but seeing it in moving form and presented as a narrative does actually increase the impact considerably.So yes this is a definite 10 in my book, purely because of these visuals - As for the politics, I however don't see a way out of this mess unless we get some serious decrease in the worlds population and soon..., which is a point that this movie really does not want to address.
Compared to "An Inconvenient Truth" it is more visual telling, it's not only about the global warming factor and if it helps some people who think that "An Inconvenient Truth" was politically motivated then they should check out this movie.
We made a habit of changing the world we live to suit our needs I think we should spare no effort in giving back some of what was taken form our planet..
So much more could've been explored, like learning more facts (as 'Transformers' pushes products such as Mt. Dew, this too could've pushed its agenda a little further,) things about the aerial shots/photographer and how they filmed a lot of the shots, histories of the places visited, and again, more resources on where we can help people in need or the Earth as a whole.