Like the first installment of this series, seeing this was a pure nostalgia play. Until they make a My little Pony movie, GI Joe is the one toy/cartoon from this current trend of lazy reboots that I have enough of a soft spot for to actually sit through a movie. Even though I knew full well it wasn't going to be good (and make no mistake its really not).
Its not worth getting into all the plot holes (though I will say there is one sort of clever twist where Cobra gets all the other countries in the world to give up their nuclear arsenals) or illogical fighting (in the big Ninja showdown not one bad guy thinks to just cut the rope of our heroes) because you expect that in this sort of film. What did surprise me is that I think there is a way to make G.I. Joe film actually work. If they just embraced the ludicrousness of a world where its perfectly acceptable to un-ironically only refer to people by their code names (Roadblock, Snake Eyes, Lady Jaye, etc), have no problem having prisoners get brought to your super-secret prison in full combat attire because the character can never be seen without their mask, or have the big enemy be a large multi-national corporation with apparently limitless resources run by this guy - then the whole enterprise could turn into a reasonably fun send-up of action films. The film seems to realize this at moments (for gods sake they have the RZA cast as a blind ninja master, no way that's a serious move), but for the majority of the time it takes things way to seriously. It should just embrace the inherant nuttiness of the universe rather than trying to 'tough' and 'badass.' Though I did see the trailer for Fast 6, so there is that.
Its not worth getting into all the plot holes (though I will say there is one sort of clever twist where Cobra gets all the other countries in the world to give up their nuclear arsenals) or illogical fighting (in the big Ninja showdown not one bad guy thinks to just cut the rope of our heroes) because you expect that in this sort of film. What did surprise me is that I think there is a way to make G.I. Joe film actually work. If they just embraced the ludicrousness of a world where its perfectly acceptable to un-ironically only refer to people by their code names (Roadblock, Snake Eyes, Lady Jaye, etc), have no problem having prisoners get brought to your super-secret prison in full combat attire because the character can never be seen without their mask, or have the big enemy be a large multi-national corporation with apparently limitless resources run by this guy - then the whole enterprise could turn into a reasonably fun send-up of action films. The film seems to realize this at moments (for gods sake they have the RZA cast as a blind ninja master, no way that's a serious move), but for the majority of the time it takes things way to seriously. It should just embrace the inherant nuttiness of the universe rather than trying to 'tough' and 'badass.' Though I did see the trailer for Fast 6, so there is that.
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