Gi Joe The rise of Cobra

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Gi Joe The rise of Cobra

August 7th 2009 14:43

The sum total of my knowledge of Gi Joe before I went to see this movie could be put down in very few words. I knew that it was a tv show made to sell toys like transformers, I knew that there was a cartoon movie where the bad-guys had a very funny theme tune and that there was some guy called Joe in it. The last piece of information turned out not to be true it actually stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity and they are an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer. The cast is made of of actors who you will spend ages on IMDB looking up afterwards to find out where you have seen them before. ( I will give you one Heavy Duty is Mr Echo from lost, I know he looks so different) They are a good cast for the movie because there is so little else to hold it up that the time you waste imdbing in your head will pass the time. It is not that any of them are bad mind you just that they don't have a lot to work with and there is more cheese pouring out of every crack then in a freshly made panini.

Everyone in the movie seemed to have a history with someone else. The only people who weren't connected, it seems, were the faceless goons manufactured to feel no pain but who still grunted and scremed when fighting. The action is littered with flash backs that send the characters off into the past of their mind and always require them to be brought back to the present by a helpful person standing near them. The flash backs are short enough and to the point but they only really serve to reinforce things that have come up in the movie in case you don't get what they are subtly hinting at.

I think the movie is aimed at children in a way because it makes it inclusive, there is good comic relief from the violance and action and most things are said very simply including the dumbing down of already dumbed down medical terms. However, though it has a 12a cert a lot of the violance is fairly grafic or grafic enough that it would scare small children. I think the audience it is left with is grown men who still think they are six and a half. Little boys will love this movie and much as I didn't.

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