GI Joe: The Movie (part 3 of 3) review

The Characters and voice talent

All of the voice actors from the TV returned for the movie. The producers also felt the need to add some bigger names to the film. Some bigger star power would help sell the movie they felt, like the way they added big names to the Transformers movie.

Don Johnson was a big name at the time with his role on Mimi Vice. He played the role of hot head Lt. Falcon. Another writer mentioned this; Think of this guy as the human version of Hot Rod from Transformers. Don Johnson does pretty fine job with the limited amount of character development provided with script. I think he handles the relationship with Duke fairly well. Yet, there are a lot of character traits that I just don’t like about Falcon. He almost doesn’t deserve to be in GI Joe.

Burgess Meredith does a marvelous job as Golobulus. While we don’t get to see much of the character, I think his voice fits the design of the character model well. We see that this is a very intelligent guy.

Probably the best performance came from the late Chris Latta as Cobra Commander. I think Latta did a great job in this movie, and he has one of the more interesting sub plots.

In the End

While certainly not as good as the Transformer movie, it has its moments. I also enjoyed the fact they decided to venture into the more sci-fi fantasy realm. Sure it changes the back-story of Cobra Commander and Cobra, but that’s okay. From a sheer 80s action standpoint, this is still a fun movie that tried something different. It is a shame the studio didn’t support the movie. Perhaps if they pumped a few more millions into the production, they could have released it into theaters.

Grade: B-

Shûko Akune played the new character Jinx. It is too bad we don’t see this character much after this movie. I liked this character.

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I thought these guys were pretty cool too.