![]() ![]() Joe movie needs? Gone is that sense of cartoonish fun, replaced by a curious, competent anonymity. This time, the action has more heft, more - dare I say it? - realism. The new film has less of that toys-being-knocked-around quality. Oddly enough, that hasn’t led to something more distinctive or compelling. Chu, heretofore known primarily as the guy who gave a couple of the Step Up movies (the second and third, specifically) their own brand of surreal vigor. Sommers (who also did the Mummy movies) has been replaced here by Jon M. ![]() Director Stephen Sommers’s cartoonish action scenes had a kind of devil-may-care bravado in the first film. The action this time around is a mixed bag. Oddly, Pryce and the Impostor President concept are holdovers from the previous film’s ending, but if you try to figure out how the timing between the two movies works, given what appears to have happened in the meantime, your brain might turn into that stuff Gwyneth Paltrow eats. He and the rest of Cobra have an evil plan to force the entire world to disarm their nuclear weapons so that the nefarious organization’s latest superweapon can reign supreme. ![]() president (Jonathan Pryce) has been replaced with an impostor, Cobra’s master of disguise Zartan (Arnold Vosloo, seen rarely, even though his character has tons of screen time). Cotrona), along with silent, masked Ninja ace Snake Eyes (Ray Park), who’s taken a leave of absence or something but soon enough re-joins the team. (Among the fallen is the previous film’s hero, Duke, played by Channing Tatum.) Only three survive: Roadblock (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki), and Flint (D.J. While disarming a Pakistani nuclear facility, the G.I. ![]() The plot itself makes the reboot explicit. Joe: Retaliation - sometimes for the better but often for the worse. There’s been a bit of rethinking and re-tinkering and rebooting with the sequel, G.I. No Transformers-ian bloat or Pirates of the Caribbean–esque tedium just pure, goofy, stoopid fun. In fact, if you’d told me the first film was the result of some time warp in which my 11-year-old self accidentally gained access to a CGI workstation, I might have even believed it. At the time, The Rise of Cobra seemed like the kind of elaborate, ridiculous, and shallow entertainment that a child playing with his action figures might have dreamt up, and for a couple of hours, I was that child. Joe movie, which, despite being widely loathed, was just enough of a hit that now they’ve made another one. All Rights Reserved.Īn admission: I’m one of that small, proud handful of jerks who actually liked the first G.I. JOE and all related characters are Trademarks of Hasbro and used with permission. Photo: Photo credit: Jaimie Trueblood/? 2013 Paramount Pictures. ![]()
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