11th Hour Movie: MTV meets global warming, successfully!

Leonardo DiCaprio is the narrator and producer of 11^th, which jumps from subject to subject in environmental catastrophe mélange, constructed of images from multiple disasters around the world and intertwines it with blurbs from experts of all sorts.

This fast paced movie covers every corner of the dilemma facing our society, offering glimpses of problems and some solutions, occasionally calmed down by reflective scenes of DiCaprio contemplating the issues at hand. Though designed for the average American afflicted with ADD, which for one split second the movie points out is potentially caused by environmental influences, it succeeds in giving urgency and a touch of hope.

In conjunction with the movie, like every other modern movie, they are combining it with a web site (http://www.11thhouraction.com/), with extra clips and interviews, allowing you to expand on many of the twenty-second sound bites covered in the movie. What sets the web site apart from traditional movie sites is that they also include current news about environmental issues and connections to relevant blogs.

The movie was very effective at covering a wide breadth of complicated issues in an entertaining way. I would highly recommend it, as would my 15-year-old son to his friends.