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Namely, they got Don Johnson to play newcomer Lt. Unlike Transformers: The Movie, where they went all out hiring names like Leonard Nimoy, Orson Wells and Eric Idle, just to name a few, GI Joe: The Movie only got a couple of notable names. I mean, what’s not to like? Now, I wouldn’t say things go downhill from here but there was no way the entire movie could be as hype as this intro! Oh, and the intro is already a short story in itself, with GI Joe foiling Cobra’s attempt to destroy the Statue of Liberty. They really went all out with some of the best camera angles and just rip roaring action! They also amped up the usual somewhat low-key GI Joe theme song with something a lot more dynamic and up-tempo. It’s really weird that, during the ’80s and ’90s, cartoons will really put a lot of time, money and effort into the intro animations. First, you have some really clean animation going through the entire thing.
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And what an intro it is! It’s honestly the best cartoon intro ever! There’s a whole lot that makes it above and beyond what a kiddie cartoon movie deserves. The first thing I do have to mention about GI Joe: The Movie is the intro. The snake people, known as Cobra-La, unveil their plan to devolve the entire human race back into mindless apes but but they still need the Broadcast Energy Transmitter for their machinations to come to fruition.
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During the attack, the Joes fend off Cobra but Cobra Commander leads them to a hidden lair where snake people live. An unknown figure invades Cobra Headquarters and gives orders to Serpentor, Cobra’s “emperor,” to steal GI Joe’s newest device, the Broadcast Energy Transmitter.
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GI Joe: The Movie starts out with Cobra returning from a botched attack on the Statue of Liberty (as seen in the intro). Besides, it’s kind of hard to do a synopsis of the film without revealing SPOILERS. Just warning you this early just in case. Or you can probably search for it yourself and you’ll can go see it for yourself before you read through this SPOILER FILLED review. I mean, it’s an animated film that’s already 34 years old! If you haven’t watched it yet, well, you can watch the entire thing above (if YouTube hasn’t taken it down yet). But now that I’m older, does this old 1987 animated movie still work?īefore you move on with the review, I have to mention this will be a SPOILER FILLED review. However, that doesn’t mean that, unlike the My Little Pony and Friends: The Movie, I ignored GI Joe: The Movie. As a huge Transformers fan, that movie was always the main event. That was the Saturday when they would show the Hasbro connected movies which consisted of My Little Pony and Friends: The Movie (which I would skip), The Transformers: The Movie from 1986 and the animated GI Joe: The Movie from 1987. So, for example, on one Saturday, they would show four Star Wars movies which included the Original Trilogy and, oddly enough, included the often maligned Star Wars Holiday Special.īut there was one specific block of programming that I particularly loved. They would take out an entire programming block on a Saturday afternoon during December and show kid-centric movies. When I was very young, one of the local channels in the Philippines would do a great service to the children in the Philippines.