The first time I watch G.I.JOE the movie

I watched with my three sons and we were already fans so we loved it - especially SGT Slaughter!!
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The first two mini-series were great (MASS Device was the best). From there, everything went down hill. The series was truly awful. I stopped watching it and this movie completely went unnoticed by me. I didn't revisit GI JOE again till a few years ago when I read a review of this film. It sounded so atrociously funny that I HAD to see it for myself. I mean, Cobra La? I recalled the toys and having thought Hasbro had sank to a new low. Cobra Commander turning into a snake? What the heck was that? The whole thing seemed centered around humiliating CC, so I had to see it. Killing Duke? A cheap gimmick that felt the need to copy Optimus Prime's death.

My brother and I laughed so hard at this silliness. The opening scene at the Statue of Liberty was overdone silliness, special attention to CC being the low man on the totem pole who gets to fly down like a low-class soldier to plant a bomb. The song lifted the whole affair to another level of humor. Who thought this was going to be cool? LOL! Don't even get me started on how utterly dumb the whole Cobra-La thing was. They'd have done better to ignore that tripe just like Larry Hama did in the comic books.

I apologize if my light-hearted view of this film offends fans. Take it for what it's worth, my opinion. My fond memories are with the first two mini-series. This was not a part of my nostalgic years, viewed completely as a reflection on what went wrong with GI JOE through the years. I do love this film, but only because it is comedy gold.

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OK, so what's the speed of dark?

I thought nemesis emforcer was the greatest cartoon villan ever and sgt slaughter was the second best hero

I didn't like G.I. Joe: The Movie. G.I. Joe was originally about a special military unit fighting a terrorist organization, and while the animated series contained fantastic elements before, the focus on Cobra-La showed how far the franchise had strayed from its roots. I felt like I was watching Inhumanoids instead of G.I. Joe. Cobra Commander's origin story in the movie contradicted what little had been previously revealed about him. In the episodes that preceded the movie, it seemed that Serpentor's flaws as a leader were becoming more apparent and Cobra Commander was gaining support to retake control of COBRA. In the movie, however, Cobra Commander was blamed for all of COBRA's failures and the rest of COBRA remained loyal to Serpentor. Old favourites were sidelined in order to make way for new characters, but some of them received little in the way of character development. One of the new recruits, Chuckles, didn't get a word of dialogue. The new Joe who received the most attention, Lt. Falcon, was described as an "arrogant misfit" with a poor record, leaving one to wonder how he managed to receive the rank of lieutenant and entry into G.I. Joe. The quality of the animation rarely rose above that of a TV episode and much of the music and sound effects had been recycled from elsewhere. It's telling that the events in G.I. Joe: The Movie were largely ignored or reversed in subsequent stories.