G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987)

Perfect cast and a good story

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

"*Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe's -- well, "G.I." -- identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels." The IGN Entertainment news site reports Paramount is considering replacing our "real American hero" with "Action Man," member of an "international operations team." Paramount will simply turn Joe's name into an acronym.The show biz newspaper Variety reports: "G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer." Well, thank goodness the villain -- no need to offend anyone by making our villains Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days, though apparently Presbyterians who talk like Scottie on "Star Trek" are still OK -- is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believe arms dealing itself is evil.(Just for the record, what did the quintessential American hero, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine in "Casablanca," do before he opened his eponymous cafe? Yep: gun-runner.) According to reports in Variety and the aforementioned IGN, the producers explain international marketing would simply prove too difficult for a summer, 2009 film about a heroic U.S. soldier. Thus the need to "eliminate Joe's connection to the U.S. military." Well, who cares. G.I. Joe is just a toy, right? He was never real. Right?*" **** Read the rest of this article and then decide how you should honor the face of the man associated with G.I. Joe http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/10849526.html

I think 'GI Joe: The Movie' is not made for children. It's a very detailed movie with interesting events. The best points of the movie is Cobra Commander's turning into a snake, and the origin of Serpentor. Serpentor's DNA was designed by the leader of Cobras, the DNA was a combination of genious humans' (such as Einstein) DNAs. But the result wasn't so successful. I think this movie could be a great thriller, if it was made more cleverly, because the story is wonderful. Ages ago, the world was ruled by Cobras, where the human were stupid creatures, but atmospheric conditions forced Cobras to hide, and the human race were raised. Now Cobras want the world back!

This is a movie about yet another attempt to take control of the planet by the evil forces of C.O.B.R.A., "a ruthless terrorist organization bent on world domination", only to be thwarted by `the real American hero's' G.I. JOE. As a die-hard fan of the cartoon series when I was younger, this movie was the end all be all for me. I felt it to be so entertaining that to this day I still remember most of the movie, which is surprising seeing as I have not seen it since its release in '87'. The thing that made this movie so entertaining is that it was a great story and it reveals so much about the characters. You get to see a JOE evolve from a "snot nose" recruit to a responsible and capable soldier in the form of Lt. Falcon. Also C.O.B.R.A.'s origins are reveled. In a subtaraininan race call Cobra-La. We also learn why and how Cobra Commander came to where his mask and hood; who inevitably gets transformed into a serpent by the same chemical that disfigured his face. The JOE's have to deal with cobra having one of there top soldiers and commanders `Duke' injured and relying on Sgt. Slaughters troops the `renegades' to help over take cobra and make them rue the day they tangled with the JOE's. This is a movie any one who was a fan of the cartoon series should see I promise you that you wont be disappointed.

I speak badly of G.I.J.:T.M. mostly because I think it lacked something that G.I. Joe had. Yes It had something that G.I. Joe didn't have like celebrity cameos by Don Johnson, and Burgess Meredith but I think G.I. Joe: The Movie lacked the passion for the characters that the G.I. Joe TV series had. Most of the voice over artists really sounded like they were dead pan and they were going to die at anytime now. It's a good movie but I wouldn't say that it was the greatest movie in the world I.M.H.O. :)Although violence is what G.I. Joe was built on I'd say that Serpentor striking Duke in his chest wasn't the very best way for Charlie Adler's character to go out. Neither was seeing Golobulus remind Cobra Commander why he was chosen to lead the Cobra forces and then being horribly mutated after he failed to deliver what Cobra-La felt was rightfully theirs.It wasn't the best way for the G.I. Joe series to go out but it's better than nothing. :)