Yooooo...Joe?

G.I.I Joe was awful.

I know it looked terrible, but recent previews suggested it might have just had some bad early trailers and this could have been some dumb fun.

Well, it was certainly dumb. It just had trouble with the second part ;)

On the plus-side, Snake Eyes and Zartan were cool, as was Cobra Commander (though his mask looks awful- they should have just stuck to the original mirror mask), and I enjoyed that they at least tried to bring the cartoon formula to life. Unfortunately, they failed to get a good script to do so with, unlike the really awesome animated "GI Joe: Resolute" that came out earlier this year.

The movie has two rather good action sequences- the climactic underwater subfighter battle is visually neat, though we don't care about any of the characters so it comes across as pointless noise instead of what would have otehrwise been a nifty battle, and the accelerator suit chase through Paris. which is actually the most enjoyable part of the movie.

Sadly, the Paris chase is built entirely around the suspense of the good guys trying to stop the bad guys from destroying the Eifel Tower. And since the tower's destruction was the opening shot of EVERY damn trailer and TV spot, the tension is ruined and reduces the only truely enjoyable part of the movie.

Everything else is awful. The guy playing Duke is so damn dull and featured so heavily you just don't care about anything. They also ruined the Baroness.

Wait for DVD or cable. Not even close to worth the ticket price.