Yo Joe ROC Movie Review

[SolidusRaccoon]

Well after letting the movie set and digest in my brain for about a week, I am ready to rate it even lower than I did before. I hope this move drops like a stone at the box office. That way there will be no direct sequel, and maybe in another few years someone with with a proper understanding of GI JOE will do a new movie and erase this piece of garbage. A proper GI JOE movie should have
1. The team be American, hence A real American Hero. Yes, there can be people of other nationalities in it, but first and foremost it should be American. And I do not care if that honks anyone off.
2. Enough with the all black bodysuits, we need to have colorful characters. You can have the individual JOEs in their own unique uniforms and still have it look realistic.
3. Don't over complicate the movie with back story. Don't get me wrong, the characters back stories are very important. And any good JOE fan went into the movie with a head full of the intricacies of the characters. And for the causal movie viewer who is unfamiliar with the characters? Give them just enough information to know what is going on, and if they want to know more they can read the comics, and the file cards.
4. Don't radically change the characters. keep the bad guys bad and the good guys good.


Well untill then at least I still have my classic comics, action figures and cartoons.

[RATtler]

It's already been green-lit for a sequel, as most people know by now. Will it take a new direction? Who knows...but everyone is confirmed to come back except for Sommers.

Anyone who wants to make a live-action Joe movie with the "classic" feel to it, feel free. Good luck getting the funds together.

[IamBrentN]

It was definitely thrilling to see my favorite childhood series, comic book, and toy line come to life on the big screen. That being said, I arrived at the film fully expecting the storyline not to fit exactly to the GI Joe of old. I was even able to get past the Baroness not having an indistinct European accent.

I think I would have given the movie two thumbs up if what I thought was going to happen actually happened. I thought that Rex was Dr. Mindbender, and that would have totally worked. Cobra Commander should have been hiding somewhere behind the scenes controling the whole operation, and I totally thought that was what was going to happen when Destro alluded to the "bigger picture."

Would it have been that hard to make Duke blonde?

Would it have been that hard to not combine the Rex character with Cobra Commander?

Why did they have technology to build a small city under the polar ice cap, but Rex's mask appeared to be made of scrap from a Tim Burton movie?

I liked the movie over all, but feel that they completely screwed it up in the last half hour.

PS Was the blonde female GI Joe that was killed in Hawk's office Cover Girl?

[freak4ll]

Yes, sadly that was Cover girl that died... it was kind of funny though, I heard she would die in the script probably a year ago and I was really against it, but when it happened... I had no attachment to the character at all that I didn't even care that she died. My only problem with it is, if your going to have codenamed Joe die - at least make the audience care. The role was completely wasted which is proven by people not even realizing that she was Cover Girl. She should have just been some "green shirt" since the character served no purpose in the film and didn't do anything worthwhile.

Rex's mask is supposed to be a work in progress. I think it will look different for the sequel, but if Sommers is back directing it, it won't be the hooded commander. He's made his dislike for that quite clear.

I also would have preferred they make Duke blond and that Cobra Commander and Dr. Mindbender seemed to be the same character. The Dr. Mindbender in the film didn't remind be of Dr. Mindbender as much as the Rex character did when he was "the doctor"

[MikePrime]

Yes, sadly that was Cover girl that died... it was kind of funny though, I heard she would die in the script probably a year ago and I was really against it, but when it happened... I had no attachment to the character at all that I didn't even care that she died. My only problem with it is, if your going to have codenamed Joe die - at least make the audience care. The role was completely wasted which is proven by people not even realizing that she was Cover Girl. She should have just been some "green shirt" since the character served no purpose in the film and didn't do anything worthwhile.

Rex's mask is supposed to be a work in progress. I think it will look different for the sequel, but if Sommers is back directing it, it won't be the hooded commander. He's made his dislike for that quite clear.

I also would have preferred they make Duke blond and that Cobra Commander and Dr. Mindbender seemed to be the same character. The Dr. Mindbender in the film didn't remind be of Dr. Mindbender as much as the Rex character did when he was "the doctor"

Did they even call her Cover Girl in the movie? I don't remember.

That reminds me of something from an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I forgot what movie they were making fun of, but one scene involved the deaths of un-named characters. The line said during this scene was something like this: "Who am I? Don't let me die before I know who I am!"

That's what I thought of when I saw Zartan kill Cover Girl.

Now that G.I. Joe has people dying, at least compared to the cartoon, the "green shirts" finally fulfilled their destiny as cannon fodder.

[IamBrentN]

I didn't really care about Cover Girl one way or the other, as she only appeared in a few cartoons, had a boring action figure, and wasn't very central to the plot.

I can understand Rex's mask at the end being a work in progress, but it being a life support apparatus was a little stupid in my opinion and smacked of Darth Vadar. I actually prefered a flat, metallic faceplate with blue helmet to the hood.

When I was younger, and finding information about GI Joe was nearly possible to find before the internet, I was dissatisfied with the explanation I was given after seeing the GI Joe movie where they revealed Cobra Commander had more than two eyes and pale blue skin. I wondered why the skin surrounding his eyes was peach when he wore the hood and someone told me he put on eye makeup.

[SolidusRaccoon]

When I was younger, and finding information about GI Joe was nearly possible to find before the internet, I was dissatisfied with the explanation I was given after seeing the GI Joe movie where they revealed Cobra Commander had more than two eyes and pale blue skin. I wondered why the skin surrounding his eyes was peach when he wore the hood and someone told me he put on eye makeup.

Heh, well I guess that would be a good lame excuse. Man, whoever thought of the entire Cobra-LA shtick should have been drug tested. What a horrible way to make a movie.