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Stephen Sommers. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. When they are attacked by thieves led by Anastasia DeCobray, with whom Duke has history , they are saved by a top secret, international special forces unit known as "G.

The leader of G. Joe, General Abernathy or Hawk is on the trail of the thieves: an evil organization called "Cobra". While Duke and Ripcord train to join the Joes, McCullen "Destro" is secretly working for Cobra and plotting to recapture his metal-eating "Nanomite" warheads.

Duke and Ripcord with help from Heavy Duty, Snake Eyes, and the rest of the Joes must prove that they are Real American Heroes -- by stopping the launch of these warheads before Cobra uses them to take over the world. Evil never looked so good. Action Adventure Sci-Fi Thriller. Rated PG for strong sequences of action violence and mayhem throughout. Did you know Edit.

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Quotes Heavy Duty : [about handling the accelerator suits] Careful. Crazy credits Part of the closing credits appear on a giant metal G. Joe logo. Visible on this logo are other military logos, including old G. Joe stickers, the US flying stars, and the G. Joe: Sigma 6 Sigma 6 designation. I myself must admit that I was not able to fully embrace the final product's stupidity, because even though there are fun moments to mark heights in certain consistent strengths, this thing is mediocre as all get-out, and bloated on top of that.

Stopping just shy of two hours, this film isn't quite as overlong as certain other blockbusters of its type have been in recent years for whatever reason, but its still takes too much time to tell a simple story, getting to be kind of repetitious in its dragging filler and material into repetition, if not overcomplication that bloats the narrative, which, as irony would have it, still needs to be fleshed out more.

In spite of plenty of jarringly forced flashback bits that come in from out of nowhere, this film feels undercooked in a lot of ways, although hurrying isn't problematic just because it thins out expository depth, for the frantic abuse of both the great Alan Silvestri's admittedly uninspired and trite score and Bob Ducsay's and Jim May's sometimes sloppy editing amidst overly slick pacing establishes a lazily slam-banged tone that bears down after a while.

The film is structurally all over the place, and that's annoying enough without the freneticism within Stephen Sommers' directorial atmosphere, yet that's not to say that awkward pacing is close to being the only directorial issue.

Pacing problems only supplement atmospheric overbearingness in Sommers' both overwrought and lazy directorial performance, whose freneticism may color things up a bit with the entertainment value that almost saves the final product, but generally carries a bombast that washes away subtlety and leaves behind not much more than awkward storytelling that is not helped by awkward acting.

Stuart Beattie, David Elliot and Paul Lovett put together a seriously misguided script that is so bloated with blockbuster pratfalls that it feels rather trite, at least when the feeling of laziness goes pumped up by questionable interpretations of traditional blockbuster tropes that make the edgeless dialogue particularly shoddy, the over-the-top set pieces particularly silly, and the lazy narrative drawing particularly uninspired. The final product is lame, boasting a colorfulness that could have saved it if the whole project's execution didn't feel so blasted lazy, to a degree that may not be too frustrating, but packs on enough genericism, incoherency, incompetence and mental density to weight the "effort" down as mediocre.

When the mission is complete, colorful subject matter is done enough justice by decent production and technical value, thrilling action sequences and well-paced highlights in lively direction for the final product to border on decent, but mediocrity ultimately prevails on the backs of the awkwardly incoherent pacing, misguided exposition, weak supporting performances and generally under-inspired direction behind trite, lazy writing that does about as much as anything in driving "G.

Joe: The Rise of Cobra" through decent moments into mediocrity as a forgettable blockbuster misfire. Cameron J Super Reviewer. Apr 04, Now growing up, I was never a huge G. Joe cartoon fan. I had all the toys, but was never too big on the cartoon. Having watched this movie, I really hope the cartoon was never this bad.

This movie is good to look at, but everything else about it really isn't that great. The story is weak, the acting is bad, and the use of Cobra Commander is pretty lame. Channing Tatum stars as Duke, the new head of the G. Joe group, and they battle the Cobra group as they try to use a new technology to take over the world. Tatum is probably the best thing about the movie, other than Snake Eyes who is pretty awesome.

Not sure if true G. Joe would really be fans of this I know a couple that hated it , but I'm sure kids new to the franchise will like it. I'd say skip it altogether and go straight for the sequel or just about any other action movie.

Everett J Super Reviewer. Dec 20, Childish, predictable and poorly acted. Still, it could've been worse. Tom R Super Reviewer. See all Audience reviews. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.

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No Score Yet. Yellowstone: Season 4. Blade Runner: Black Lotus: Season 1. Gentefied: Season 2. The Game: Season 1. Always Jane: Season 1. It aired on stations throughout the country, where it beat out the Saturday morning cartoons on all three major networks. Another five-part miniseries ran in , which led to the regular series, also called G. In , the animated series spawned a movie, but it was released straight to video after the poor box-office performances of The Transformers and My Little Pony movies.

Sales soon started sliding, but the real blow came in , when CEO and G. Joe champion Stephen Hassenfeld died unexpectedly. Two years later, Hasbro acquired Kenner, producers of the Star Wars line of action figures, and Joe was overshadowed and outsold, In , the line was discontinued for good.

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Toys Aren't Just for Kids. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. More From Entire Histories. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. In recent times, the brand's success has been due partly to the release of two GI Joe films, but mainly to a dedicated group of collectors, most of whom are in their 40s and 50s, who grew up playing with the original GI Joes.

Hasbro has acknowledged that the firm's fortunes are no longer tied to GI Joe's success - and that without a big movie event, it is mostly the collectors that keep the brand going. But even some of those collectors wonder if the toy still holds the same appeal. But he cannot convince his eight-year-old daughter to play with the toys. That's why GI Joe may be in for one more transformation - either through the films, interactive games or new storylines.

But, he adds: "As long as there are boys or children who have imaginations and who want to see their imaginations come to life, I think there will always be a need for action figures. Is swimsuit-issue Barbie a 'sex doll'? Do children's toys influence their career choices? Are children given too many toys? New York Toy Fair Image source, Getty Images.

GI Joe's popularity over the years has seen it become the world's most popular toy for boys.