G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Wait, that's not the correct picture is it? It's how I prefer to remember it anyway. The movie, while not awful, isn't bad either. If the blantantly pandered sequel gets any worse, it'll be titled G.I Joe: I'm leaving the theater. Do we really need movie titles that start off with a promise of a sequel? Perhaps that's the part that I don't get. Cobra is so inept in this movie, as in the cartoon too, that they can barely make it to the end of the week without blowing themselves up. How on Earth are we expected to believe that they will make it to another movie?

Oh that's right, we sent G.I. Joe after them; the organization that is only marginally less incompetent than Cobra. It's the Special Olympics of spec ops teams duking it out to the tune of some untold sum of cash. Which must be steep given all the high tech toys.

Perhaps that's the real goal of this Cobra/G.I. Joe pairing- to revitalize the economy with arms sales... or perhaps to convince the French to not fuel their cars with C4.

See the movie and you'll know what I mean. While the movie isn't bad, it is, as another reviewer aptly pointed out, 1 giant CGI hand away from recreating the experience of playing with G.I. Joes as a kid. That alone is worth one hell of a nod because despite it being brain liquifying stupidity most of the time, the movie is FUN and that alone seems to be what allot of films miss these days.