The Sad History of GI Joe: The Movie
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G.I. Joe: The Movie (also known as Action Force: The Movie in the UK) is a 1987 American direct-to-video animated military science fiction film based on the original Hasbro toyline.
Serpentor, the almost death of Duke, Cobra La, Cobra Commanders different origin, the next generation of GI Joe, all included, all intended to be seen on the big screen.
While GI Joe: The Movie was originally intended for a theatrical release the failure of the My Little Pony and Transformers movies changed that plan and what happened with the GI Joe franchise immediately after altered a lot of what the future held.
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Fun Fact: After the series was cancelled, Cobra changed their tactics away from warfare, and started offering health insurance.
It's true! I'm under their Health Care package! Its too good to pass up!
Go Cobra !
True. Their premiums are both extortion _and_ economic terrorism.
Cobra!!
"It ssseemsss we'll have to do sssssomething about your cholesssssterol levelssss! Muwahahaha!"
The saddest thing about the GI Joe movie is that the opening is INCREDIBLE and better than the entire rest of the movie. It never gets as good as the opening again.
True.
CRASHING THROUGH THE SKY COMES A FEARFUL CRY!
🎯
I enjoyed the whole movie! The only thing I didn't like is that they barely used the older Joe's and older cobra members like storm shadow
I agree!
The slow body horror death of cobra Commander was way more disturbing to me as a kid then duke taking a snake to the heart
Death? He doesn't die in the movie.
“I was once a man!”
"I was once a man! Yessssss, oh yesss. I wasss... once a man."
@@Aikurisu TO THIS DAY me and my friends say this randomly haha!
It traumatised me as a kid and kept me away from the franchise for so long. Even going back to watch the movie now, I still feel so disturbed by it.
I’m 43 years old; that opening sequence and theme music STILL give me chills.
Joey Armao, Im 47 and I still watch it every now and again. I STILL feel the chills same way I did then. YO JOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, I'll rewatch that intro a few times a year on youtube ... which often triggers an hour or two of watching all of the 80s / 90s cartoon intros.
There's so many good ones, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers, Denver The Last Dinosaur, Dinosaucers, Wildcats, etc..
Same here.
It's why I have it on my iPod.
Cobra!!!
I was suspended from elementary school for a week for bringing my VHS of GiJoe: The Movie to 'movie day' in my class when it was my turn. We made it up to where Duke got stabbed in the chest by the snake spear and my teacher finally threw an absolute fit and got the principal to suspend me for bringing violent materials to school. So for an entire week I just got to stay home and play with my GiJoe toys lol.
"I see this as an absolute win!"
Yo Joe!!!
Knowing is half the battle
This story rules.
Which is what you want to do in the first place. That was the day you learned how to get people to do what you wanted and make them think it was their idea the whole time. Thus a super villain was born.
The opening sequence of Cobra taking the Statue of Liberty while the Joes stop them was epic. The song was great as well. The movie was great, although Duke going into a coma was a bit lame.
They had to do thecoma thing with Duke because of the parental backlash after killing Optimus Prime. The animation for the entro is great but the change to the song...less so.
Finest piece of animation of the era.
Agree that that intro was the most amazing thing I saw at the time!
Absolutely. Amazing introduction sequence
That opening sequence and that song are LEGENDARY!!!
It always amazed me that in a show where the screen is filled with red and blue lasers, nobody ever got shot. Basically both sides were Stormtroopers.
It always resorted to fist fights. All the pilots bailed out to safety. Explosions never contained shrapnel. Cobra and the Joe's never lost a man only the machines. Somehow as a kid I didn't notice.
@Wiseguy 36 They used red and blue pew pews because bullets were expensive... (Yeah, they did an episode with Pentagon budget cutbacks to cripple the Joes.)
Actually the Stormtroopers were quite deadly. Just watch the 1st scene of a new hope were they massacre the rebel forces. The only ones they always miss are the main characters due to plot armor.
That's why the BATS were created. It allowed the Joes to actually shoot the enemies.
@@rafaelonegron On the medical ship I think the stormtroopers we're good only because the hallways of the ship were narrow, and everyone was bunched up. Lol
No one ever talks about the post-movie mini-series where Baroness and Copperhead rounds up a small band of Cobra soldiers still loyal to Cobra Commander to form Python Patrol, take CC to an ancient temple to reconstitute him back into a man, and lure in Serpentor to do away with him once and for all.
Operation Dragonfire.
What?! I need to see this!
It's the beginning of the DIC series.
@@AWW8472 the only good part of DIC. All that follows is cornball stories with CHEAP animation and horrible bgm. But Dragon Fire was pretty good. The Scoop story was great!
Yeah, the DIC series was just not really good, premise was OK, art average but execution pretty weak.
As a 43 year old, I was perfect age for this movie and I loved it. The Serpentor storyline as well as Cobra La.
45 here. Loved GI Joe.
Same
`78, baby!
Here I was thinking his name was Sir Pentor, with serpent being a hidden-ish pun.
42 and yes!
The Statue of Liberty intro sequence may be the greatest piece of toy-associated action animation made in the '80s. In 1986/1987 - for those who remember - the one-two punch of _Transformers: The Movie_ and _GI Joe: The Movie_ was almost as impactful as _Star Wars_ or _Raiders_ - simple, epic perfection. And everything a kid could have wanted from those properties.
I’m pretty sure the Statue of Liberty sequence is by far the best part of that entire movie hands down.
Holy shit. You stole this comment from by brain.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Agreed, but it should be stressed that best doesn't imply only - the movie is solid all around. The thing that really gets it is the reworking of the theme song, as was the case in Transformers. Let's be perfectly honest here... the original openings for both were pretty weak. Especially when compared to Thundercats, MASK, and TMNT, which all had epic TV intros. I believe Hasbro realized this. However, with the Transformers movie, the song was over the opening credits - following the conventional motion picture format. GI JOE really pulls ahead by staying true to the formula of the series and including an opening scene. Which is how we end up with the masterpiece of an animated sequence that we have.
You accidentally added an "almost" to your description.
And of course, the original “My Little Pony: The Movie” was an absolute trainwreck. The two films were made in 1986, and “GI Joe: The Movie” was also a direct-to-video release, but it was originally planned as a theatrical release, but it went into direct-to-video territory.
God I loved and still love the animated GI Joe movie. 500 times better than the live action Michael bay movies.
Michael Bay had nothing to do with those movies
@@johncaulfield8935 You'd think the guy who would constantly shove random military garbage into Transformers and TMNT would have loved working on a movie series that actually HAS the military in it, but oddly no.
Michael Bay never worked on the two live action Joe films from the 2000's, nor did he work on Snake Eyes, as well.
@@mightyfilm You have a point. He would've added more explodie, to the films instead of relying on "story" and "jumpy fighting"
@@deadpilled2942 Hos insane need to turn everything into a military fetishist fan-fic probably would have worked here better than TMNT. I don't want to unpack everything wrong with that movie, we'll be here forever. And he just produced that one. Of course, the only live action Joe movie I saw was Snake Eyes, so I wouldn't be able to judge the other two.
A few years ago, the Egyptian theater in Hollywood showed both Gi Joe and Transformers The Movie one night. It was amazing finally seeing it on the big screen with a crowd.
Glad I've seen both in theaters.
Sweet!
It would be great to watch these two films with a crowd in the way Rocky Horror Picture Show hollar, scream, shout and what have you.
Duke takes a servant spear to the chest, all the guys in the audience crying out "DUUUUUUUUKE!!"
Or Cobra Commander's body horror scene and the audience flips out with cries of "AAAAAAAH! MOTHER!! OH MY GOD!!"
Scenes where the Joes' are victorious, people go nuts, throw popcorn, "GO JOE! TAKE THAT COBRA, YOU'LL NEVER BEAT GI JOE!!"
Dukes in a coma scene, people murmur not to subtle "That's lame..."
GI Joe was never my thing, but there is one thing from the show that is burned into my memory forever: there was an episode in which Shipwreck wakes up and is being tricked by Cobra to think he was in a coma. The people around him are like robots or something, and at some point his loved ones fucking melt before his eyes in the most disturbing horrific fashion!
"There's No Place Like Springfield". The last two episodes of Season 1. Still pretty crazy when you consider its 1985 contemporaries and what was allowed back then.
@@sprngfldpop1 classic two-parter, definitely nightmare-fuel
That episode blew my young mind.
That episode was wild! Especially for the 80s!
That was the episode of the Synthoids.
I’ll never forget the moment I realized that the GI Joe figure that my neighbor had (Rock N’ Roll with his badass motorcycle) was sooo far superior to my coveted Star Wars figures. While I had the movies to back up my Star Wars fandom and imaginary adventures, I didn’t need a backstory for these highly articulated soldiers. The “playability” of the Joe’s was just so awesome and was the natural step up in “maturity” from Star Wars and its toys.
I would play with both together, especially since they were mostly the same size. Same with Visionaries. Also, I'd always wondered if the Yuuzhan Vong from Star Wars novels were inspired by Cobra-La.
I read that's who the prime target audience was for GI JOE toys, boys with maturing tastes. Now that market doesn't exist! Boys would rather play video games and such.
Same here. Once I received my first Joe figure, I forget if it was Grunt or Rock N’ Roll, I was all in. I completely forgot about Star Wars after Return of the Jedi came and went.
You didn't...throw them out, did you?
So very, very well said.
When I was an 80's teenager, I thought the secret society of Cobra-La lizard people was unrealistic. As an adult, I know the horrifying truth.
Are you saying you believe in that Annunaki B.S.?
@@not_brundle1742 I'm saying I believe in Serpentor
@@not_brundle1742 Nothing like sci-fi and fantasy writers from the 20's and 30's influencing modern politics.
Underrated comment
@@InventiveHarvest and he believes in you
The history of the movie might be sad, but the intro sequence is an absolute banger and the most 'merican piece of animation ever.
Cobraaa !!!! Retreat !!!! Retreat !!!!!
The two lines from this film I will alway remember are “I was onccceee a man” and “nothing like a little on the job training!”
Also "Thisss I command!"
Had a supervisor in the Air Force that used the OJT line quite often. He bought me a beer because I was the first to know where it came from.
I completely forgot “The last thing you’ll hear, is the cracking of your own vertebrae”
Don't forget the "COBRA LALALALALAAA!!!"
Me and a friend often try to do Roadblock's "Lifeline? Ahhh Lifvvvliiiiaaoorrrlifeline"
Burgess Meredith just owned that role. His voice was pure malice-you knew he was bad and NOT a guy to mess with, unlike the Commander and Serpentor. They were pretty goofy in their own charming ways.
He sure did. He has the coldest line ever and he delivered it with such malice you could feel it!
"Be silent or be silenced"
Evil Burgess Meredith is truly horrifying.
And the spliced in line from Grumpy Old Men is just perfection...
The irony was Meredith starred in a 1940's movie called "The Story of G.I. JOE".
"You have lost GI JOE! Lost!"
The opening of the movie is my favorite G.I.Joe thing ever. It still makes me smile to this day.
My other favorite memory of the movie is that I watched it with a group of friends after college. Me and one of my friends used to make fake Roadblock rhymes all the time after that. That friend sadly passed away, but I think of him every time I see the movie now.
I was 11 years old when an unfortunate life long issue with my right leg put me in a hospital for the first time. I was alone and scared to death and on one of my mom and dad's daily visits to see me, they gave me a GI Joe comic book, which was my first ever comic book. I read it cover to cover by the time they came back the following day and I asked for another which they went and got right then. I can feel myself choking up as I tell this story now at age 50 (and over 20 surgeries later on that leg) and I know that those comic books got me through a terrible time in my life. I went on to be an avid collector of the toys and would have my star wars toys battle against my GI Joe toys on the floor in the basement of the home I grew up in. The show, the movies, the figures, the comics and the theme music will always hold a special place in my heart.
Buzz Dixon had an alternate story he wanted to tell about the creation of Cobra before the Serpentor thing happened. He had an idea about Cobra being twisted ideas from some other political philosopher and Cobra Commander had him locked away. The guy would escape and be the Most Dangerous Man for Cobra Commander as he one time mentor. He eventually took those ideas and wrote a fanfiction story that was on Amazon Kindle for awhile. But then Amazon decided to cancel their fanfiction universe. I found out about the fanfiction story being available about 1 month after Amazon changed its policy.
Damn. Damndamndamndamndamn.
The intro was so epic then it went all the way left field but remained crucial viewing. I remember it was on prime time 7pm on WGN Chicago when I was a kid.
While Duke was announced by Doc as being out of his coma at the end of the animated film, his recovery was reinforced in the original Tiger Force TV ad. This Marvel-animated ad featured Dusty exclaiming “Duke is back,” as Duke took command of the team from a GI Joe Dragonfly (converted into the Tiger Fly). So yes, Duke returned one final time in Marvel animation before making multiple appearances in DIC animated form. His team-up with Cobra to fight drug dealers and rescue his half-brother Falcon from them was also epic Duke awesomeness.
That was an awesome mini-series, Falcon was dating the sister of one of the Crimson Guard Immortal, and she was in the hospital from an overdose of the “dust”. That was how the team up happened, Cobra can’t rule the world if everyone dies from drugs.
Even as a kid I was wondering, " What kind of advancements in medicine do they have at GI Joe to have a man survive being stabbed through the heart??"
But, whatever, this movie is still one of my guilty pleasures growing up. Especially seeing the transformation and downfall of Cobra Commander.
"I WAS ONCE... A MAN..."
In an ironic twist of fate, he was stabbed by a Cobra, and Duke had Cobra health insurance (as mentioned at the top of this thread), so they kind of canceled each other out.
My favourite line was Golobulous reacting to Serpentor's idea to throw the stricken Cobra Commander in with the Joes: "A trifle melodramatic..."
The animation of this and The Transformers movie is incredibly detailed because it pretty much was animated by some of the best Japanese animation teams of it's era. I just hope we we get a 4k transfer like we did with Transformers.
The opening sequence was insanely good, so was Pythona emerging through Cobra defenses, Cobra-La was a bit too much of a stretch but overall quite enjoyable
one footnote worth mentioning, in 1989 the then still almost new Fox network aired gi joe the movie in its entirety in prime time. I remember all the kids at school talking about how cobra commander got turned into a snake the next day.
I remembered watching this for the first time when it aired over a week and literally saying to myself "This is too damn good to NOT be in theaters."
Uk here, we got it on video with every reference to GI Joe changed to Action Force. Had no other references apart from the odd UK marvel comic but I absolutely loved it.
@@stewartglencrose9023
Yeah I have to admit as much as the whole teenage mutant hero turtles thing is the most well-known of the changes to US shows for the UK action force really blew my mind. It’s a tiny change really but so significant considering that particular rally cry is like probably the most well-known part of the series. I mean Yo joe, is as iconic if not more so than the thundercats hooooooooooooooooo battle cry.
🇬🇧 What's even stranger is that Action Force began life as a completely separate toyline, made by Palitoy and nothing to do with GI Joe. Then Hasbro, Joe's originator, bought Palitoy and simply started selling GI Joe toys in Action Force packets. We weren't told about the Joe connection until years later!
Same!!!!
What are the other movies/ minis were there? M.A.S.S. Device, Pyramid of Darkness, Arise, Serpentor Arise, Operation Dragonfire, The Weather Dominator (?) . . . Valor vs. Vernon (?), G.I. Joe: Resolute
I don't care what anybody says that intro to GI Joe the movie 1987 is so damn patriotic.
After the opening scene I want to drape myself in the American flag and make out with a bald eagle.
I can't lie, decades later, it still chokes me up!
@@exoarchyanubis9528 😄😄😄
@@officialonyxobsidian yeah that intro is so badass.
Grew a full beard and 'stache after watching it back in the day.
14:00 i rented the movie as a kid, I literally shut off the movie when Prime died and never watched the original series again. To this day.
It had its moments afterward, but I agree you picked the absolute perfect moment to tune out!
U missed out!
I understand your reaction.
I liked the movie but always thought the name "Cobra La" and the "Lalalalalala" battle cry was dumb. I'm glad my instincts on that were right.
You were correct. It felt phoned in because it was.
COBRA LALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!!!
Now I know the sad truth of GI Joe: The Movie and knowing is half the battle!
I see what you did there. Yoooo Joe!
Thanks Shipwreck!
GI Joeeee
The other half is violence.
Your Grumpy Old Men/Golobulous joke is the best one you've ever had. Pure genius.
For some reason, Golobulous scared the crap outta me when I was a kid.
Not only was Optimus Prime's death traumatic, but Iron Hide, Prowl and the rest of the Autobots on the ship deaths were as well and it was BRUTAL. Prime's death was just another layer of trauma.
Ironhide being shot in the face was WAY more traumatic to witness than Optimus Prime dying with dignity surrounded by loved ones.
@@MykeLewisMusic Yeah, that always disturbed me as a kid. "Such heroic nonsense"... Then blasts Ironhide point blank in the face. Brutal stuff for a 4 year old lol.
@@MykeLewisMusic, Prowl dying as smoke poured from his mouth and his eyes dimmed was...excessive.
@@MichaelMartin-qe5ye yeah, that and the pool of acid near the end. I loved it, but it definitely freaked me out as a kid!
@@Jay-bf8yp super brutal. Looking at it now, surprisingly sophisticated for a kids’ movie. Also, kind of a kickass way for a guy like Ironhide to die. By the time OP died, I was pretty much numb 🤣
COBRA LALALALALALALALA!
G.J.Joe: The Movie came out on VHS (ask mom and dad about video tapes, kids) around fourth grade or so and quickly became one of my favorite movies for the next few years. Having gotten nostalgic for what I watched as a kid I of course added the Blu-ray to the ever growing archive. Opening theme still tugs at the heart strings, as done hearing Sgt. Slaughter yell "we all go home or nobody goes home!"
Why I love the autograph he did for my copy of the movie.
I still sing the movie theme out loud randomly to this day, heavily emphasizing the “COBRA!” part
Crashing through the sky
Comes a fearful cry
Co...bruhhh... Co...BRAAAH!!!
Co...bruhhh... Co...BRAAAH!!!
Cobra La La La La La La! I enjoyed this movie. Great story and cool new characters. Still have it on VHS! 😁 Yoooo Joe!
Serpentor is the best! Cobra-La baby!!!
"We all go home or nobody goes home!" And "Cobralalalalalalalalala" are what I remember most.
"Cobra-La-La-La-La-La!!!"
~ Serpentor, 1987
I still go back and watch this movie and I'm nearly 40.
I'm extremely happy that Toy Galaxy is covering G.I.JOE THE MOVIE, because I have always loved this movie
I know lots of people didn't like the fantasy stuff that the movie introduced like ancient races and superpowers and such, but that's what I like best about this movie. Nemesis Enforcer is the man!
Where I lived, t on the San Francisco Bay Area they actually aired the whole movie uncut during prime time. They did the same with the 5 part mini series years earlier. I came home from shopping and only saw the last 30 minutes and was blown away...so many questions walking into it towards the end. Fortunately I caught it in whole during reruns later, and eventually I got the VHS and copied it from a rental version. Such a great film, despite it's convoluted history.
Yeah I lived around there around the same time and I think I saw this but I honestly can’t remember.
Then again I would’ve only been about seven years old at the time so even if I did see it it’s hard to remember at this point.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Yeah I was 10 when Transformers the movie came out. I remember my mom taking myself and 3 Friends to a theater in Hayward. Then a year later, catching that last part of GIJoe on channel 2 it was a Friday or Saturday night. They played all sorts of cool stuff though. I even saw the Thundercats movie uncut, but that was during a Saturday afternoon I'm pretty sure.
There are some really great episodes of GIJOE that are really deep and go way beyond your avg kids cartoon. I missed these as a kid even though I watched every time I could, but as an adult have been re-watching it and oh boy there are some good ones. Worlds Without End & There's No Place like Springfield are two of my favorites.
Synthoid Conspiracy
Lights, Cameras, Cobra!
Hearts and Cannons
Twenty Questions
I always liked the episode where Cobra recruited Ghosts to fight the Joes for some reason, And the Ghosts turned out to be Tragic, Sympathetic Characters.
"This is doc at headquarters! Great news, EUGH EGH EUGH AEH EH" 🤣 This just broke me.
I'm sad we missed out on the possible Topless Zarana scene when she was near the lake. That extra spice was certainly nice so I thank the crew for that reveal many years later at a con!
The payoff with the grape stomping lady had me howling. It's the new I WARNED YOU!!
Fantastic movie
Still argue with my friends to this day that this movie was NEVER released to theaters but straight to tv! I'm a bit older than they are, so I remember it's debut quite well, and if it had been in theaters, I absolutely would have been there to see it...Thanks for backing up my claim! Wish I'd caught that theatrical release this year, this is the first I'm hearing about it...
I never got why they didn't kill Duke off...just because of the Optimus Prime backlash?! They...DO know that kids never bonded with Duke to the same degree that they cared about Prime, don't they? No? Okay, then...
Duke and Flint both shared the role of being the leader on missions, while Optimus was present the majority of the time. I think that might be why some people didn't connect with Duke as much as Prime. That said, I think killing characters was a bad idea for kids films...especially to the body count Transformers the movie did. Death just for shock value is cheap and in fiction it typically gets undone anyways. (as what happened to Prime multiple times now.) Death should be done sparingly, so when it happens it has actual weight. There's plenty of ways to write a character out of a story besides giving them a dirt nap.
@@Lastjustice I think it has more to do with Duke just not being that interesting! Flint was far moreso, both in appearance and personality, it's no wonder he and Lady Jaye took over the show...As for killing Prime off, it's fair to say they genuinely DID intend that to be permanent, and only reveresed it when a massive backlash set in...I agree it shouldn't be done willy nilly, but even for kid's films, it should never be entirely off the table! Otherwise, we'd never have gotten Bambi...
@@HandofOmega I agree that Flint and Lady Jaye had far more going on under the hood. Duke was cut from the same stotic personality you'd see in most DC super heroes at the time. The typical good for the sake of good character who's right the majority of the time and not much else. Your father figure insert types.
Prior to the transformers movie, Alpha Trion was the only named character(He sacrificed himself to merge with vector sigma to create the Aerial bots) I can think of that died on screen. (3 unnamed Seekers were blown up in the pilot run.) It wasn't that we never saw death, it just wasn't at the crazy level they did at the begining of the 86 film. The shuttle being overtaken kills more autobots alone than the entire first 2 seasons.
The movie was to blantantly in the opposite direction of the show with how ruthlessly they killed off existing characters in the beginning. Then we see the plot armor turn back on for all the new cast in the second half. Ultra Magnus gets torn to pieces and put back together, and Kup gets his limps put back on. We saw autobots die to far less than that in the beginning half, so this was extra jarring. Like why could they just brought Prime to Junkion if it was that easy to put a guy back together?
It undermines the concept they can be killed and stay dead when we've seen them put back together from far worse. In city of Steel, prime was a reduced to a head, and the rest of his body was used by the constructicons for parts.(They built a robot alligator out of most of it) He was put back together in the end just fine. In Triple takeover Blitzwing literally smashes autobots flat as a tank, and uses their bodies to make a throne for himself....yet they all survive somehow?! Then we see them die to single laser blasts to center mass. Like how did these guys survive this long if that's all it took?
The following shows generally have body counts happen, but it's planned out and done sparingly. I feel like they maintain the right level of balance of the most of the time.
@@Lastjustice Flint and Lady Jaye were canonised as a couple in Transformers. Marissa Fairborn from Season 3 is their daughter.
I loved this movie back in the day. The whole Cobra La thing was dope & Nemesis Enforcer is the greatest name for a villain period lol!
I still love Maximum Overdrive. When that kid is riding his bike through his neighborhood looking at all the carnage still gives me chills.
Hell, that movie literally starts off on my birthday.
Opening bit was like a Super Add for all the vehicles and figures. One thing i'll always remember is Cobra Commander slowly turning into a snake, especially the part when we finally get to see under the mask but it was all snake'ish and really neat for the time.
i still remember parts of the movie way more clearly than any of the actual episodes of the show.
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Though it wasn't released in theaters, this was still a phenomenal film! I was so glad when my mom recorded the entire film on vhs back when it aired and still brings me joy to this day! I still hold this movie up in high regards like TF the movie and absolutely LOVE THAT INTRO! COBRA-LALALALALALAH!!!
The opening of G.I. Joe the Movie is by far my favorite moment of 80s cartoons. That song givea me goosebumps to this day when it plays in my head.
The thing I remember and loved the most about the movie was the opening theme. Cobra, COBRA! GIJOE was the red headed step child of early mid 80’s cartoons. But they had some cool toys.
I love this movie! As a kid I remember finding the whole Cobra La thing so fascinating. For like an entire month during recess at school I ran around yelling "CobraaaLalalalalaaa!" every chance I got... during kick ball, dodge ball, TV tag, freeze tag, climbing the monkey bars, and even during a game of marbles.
When I played with my action figures Duke did die (His O ring broke and so did his crotch and thumbs so I didn't want him anymore. Besides I had had him since his release and he was already in bad shape before breaking.) and Flint took his place as the field commander with Lt. Falcon and Sgt. Slaughter coming next... of course they all reported to General Hawk. Oh and fuck Beachhead. Great video Dan, your history lessons always carry me down memory lane with blissful nostalgia.
Fuck Beachead?! I’m going to have to ask you to step outside.
@@wolfprime something about Beach Head just bothered me.
@@AntoineJenkins80sChild I was the exact opposite. Beachead was on my go to strike team with Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and Firefly. All of the fully masked, lone wolf, bad asses on one team. Besides fitting on that team he was also a Ranger like my all-time favorite, Stalker.
This was so epic, so spectacular, & so ridiculous all at the same time to this 11-year-old back when I caught it in its 5-part miniseries form in '87. That opening theme is still amazing. The DIC version didn't air in my rural enclave (nor did She-Ra or New Adventures of He-Man), so it was fun catching up with those episodes as an adult when the DVD boom happened.
The constant references to the grape stomping video were priceless!
10:04..." The ultimate Cobra Emperor " I never saw the commercial or G.I. Joe The Movie, and wasn't reading comics yet. So when I got Serpentor as a gift, he was a complete and awesome surprise.
Serpentor was needed to keep things interesting for both Cobra and the animated show itself. His personality was definitely a force to be reckoned with. Think of how difficult it would be to fight against someone so driven and motivated to beat you.
Porkchop Sandwiches!
I’m computer, stop all the downloading’.
These people go to sleep thinking everything’s fine, everything’s good…then they wake up and they’re on fire
Mmme mmme mmme hey who's the weird guy mmme mmme mmme mmme mmme.
Cobra La is the best explanation of Cobra’s finances at the very least. I like G.I. Joe the Movie, a little more than Transformers the Movie. Such a kick-ass opening too.
The comics had a much better storyline: Cobra was financed as a multi-level marketing scheme/scam that was the brainchild of a rebellious get-rich-quick Cobra Commander. As a villain he was such a magnificent bastard.
For a few months my friends and I would finish every sentence with "THIS I COMMAND" even if it didn't fit. Getting detention for it was what got us to quit. That said, I enjoy the movie despite it flaws. Cobra-La was something different, Nemesis Enforcer looked cool, Cobra Commander had a good story arc, and Globulus actually had a sense of menace to the point where I was a bit intimidated going into the fight with him in GI Joe on NES.
Detention? For that?! Maybe the administration was saying, "You will comply. THIS I COMMAND!"
This movie did so much stuff
Never have I seen this much plot handled so well in one movie
I loved the cartoon. Not nearly as much as the Transformers, but I found the show, it’s silliness (apple seeds killed a blob, and a whole other episode _dedicated_ to a _pun_ about a window washer) and their fully articulated figures interesting. Getting a Joe figure was like buying a skin in Call of Duty before Call of Duty. Great Stuff, as always!
The viper!!!!
How many Care Bears were killed off, btw?
How many My Lil Ponies were sent to the glue factory?
So many older kids turned their noses up at the Joes after series 1 or so... personally, I was there for both the military aspects & the scifi - including Sci Fi!
(Of course, with a name like that, he'd be neon green!)
answer to the first two questions, not enough
@@CR7659 lol true, true...
Honestly, I would have never eaten a salad from the Cabbage Patch (but I have had my share of Gummi Bears!)
Sci Fi is an awesome character. He and Lowlight can outshoot Leatherneck and Wet-Suit, a la the opening sequences of “Arise Serpentor Arise.” Lowlight says to them, “Come back on amateur night, clowns.”
I was about 9 when this came out. First: that opening sequence with the updated theme was awesome! I didn't have a problem with the Cobra-La stuff--I thought it was intriguing. I'd already liked Serpentor's design and origin. Learning the truth about Cobra Commander reinvigorated interest in him. I got Golobulus, Nemesis Enforcer, and the Royal Guard (they came in a 3-pack, right?) over any of the new Joes, except for Law & Order.
So glad I was able to catch this in the movie theater recently for the Fathom event with my brother. We loved it when we were kids and it's just so damn quotable. It was fun viewing it on the big screen as it was originally intended, although that Serpentor TV spot has me hyped for the new Classified release during this year's Pulse Con.
It’s funny though the movie memory holed us into believing that the show was more violent but in reality everyone had storm trooper aim.
Underrated Movie. Very Sci-Fi but that wasn’t so bad.
Glad that Buzz gets so many shout-outs in this episode! He's told me about tons of ideas that got kicked around in the old days and it's nice to hear the Serpentor origin(s) again!
I took my Duke figure to the movie when I saw it if I only knew the horror that toy would see
We all love Duke. Yo Joe!!!
I still remember Duke dying when I first watched it. I thought for years I misremembered it, but my grandmother mentioned she was mad that I was watching a cartoon that killed a character in a bloody way. When we discussed it, we both remembered Scarlett saying he was dead.
That, or I have long since lost all connection to reality. Which, to be fair, is entirely plausible.
You saw the original cut? I could never find this. Point me in the right direction please. This I Command!
@@bryansillman3240 No clue. This was about thirty years ago when they had it on TV. Not sure if they showed the wrong one or what. Several friends at school saw it too, which caused a big argument with the kids who had it on VHS. I legit thought I just misremembered it until my grandmother told me she remembered it as well.
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Yeah that is crazy but honestly totally possible I guess.
It’s hard to believe there would be one variation that somehow got out into the wild though as I thought they made the decision not to kill Duke before it ever made it to air so I don’t know how some thing like that could even be possible. That said I have experienced things like this myself with other things from my childhood that I still can’t really explain. Parts for movies or lines or just various things that I was certain happened that I’ve gone back and found apparently weren’t said or shown. But then you realize they do stuff like adding scenes for when a movie is shown on TV Like the famous octopus scene in the goonies. So it’s very possible that it’s not so much a Mandela effect as much as it is something more like a regional difference or something very strange like that.
That is likely an example of the Mandela Effect, where you remember something from a film that didn’t actually happen. Such as no one ever actually said the phrase “Beam me up, Scotty” in Star Trek, but everyone “quotes” it.
There was never an official release of the dead Duke version.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Yeah. My only thought is somehow one of the original versions got sent out to a TV station and was quietly discarded after. I can't even remember what channel it was on. Though, I do remember telling one of my friends who never believed me. About a decade ago, he read that Duke was killed in the original cut. I got a message about it where he asked if I could imagine that happening. I just said "Yes, I can". His response a few minutes later was something like "Wait, you were serious about that?"
I can appreciate the throw anything at the wall spirit of the whole Cobra-La thing as an adult, but as a kid it definitely made me have a "what the heck is this" reaction.
I absolutely loved that movie. I watched it so many times. The addition of Cobra La took everything to the next level and those characters were brilliant.
6:30 Man, remember when Pizza Hut was *good* and going there was actually a treat? Sigh.
Also, it's hardly surprising Hasbro loved the "hidden Cobra society" thing - it had so much more toy potential.
The blood coming from Duke was revolutionary to me as a kid. And then, I discovered unedited anime movies.
Yeah I remember the first time I saw anime and my head freaking exploded.
I mean I think most kids from the 80s or even early 90s can tell you exactly the first time they ever saw ghost in the shell or Akira for the first time.
Nudity and violence/blood in animated form that was crazy. You’re never quite the same after your experience anime for the first time especially uncut. The 90s were the most amazing period of my entire life because that was the decade that America finally got anime and it got it big time.
Not sure where you lived but Robotech was a stark contrast to Joe
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu You're right. In retrospect, we now know that Voltron and others were technically anime. But as kids I didnt know. Plus it was censored and rebranded for american youth. My first experience with real uncut "japanime" and/or "Japanese animation" as we called it then, was "Fist Of The North Star". It blew me away, since I loved martial arts. Me and friend use to always quote, "You're Already Dead" like Ken said in the movie, lol. Then of course "Akira" visually changed the game. Although I must admit, I didn't understand the story back then, lol. And I also liked "Vampire Hunter D". In the 90s, the secret was out, and Americans were getting a ton of anime. My favorite to this day, is "Ninja Scroll"
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I mean that's the thing we all have that moment where everything just clicks into place and you suddenly understand stuff for the first time.
I mean I spent more time watching cartoons during the '90s where it was much more obvious what was being added or removed. But that first time you watched some uncut japanimation it was like an awakening. Which seems like a ridiculous statement at first but it really is/was. I was lucky enough to have a local PBS channel that picked up various anime and would show it uncut late on Sunday nights. It's where I had probably the deepest experience of my young life where I saw evangelion, bubblegum crisis and dirty pair flash subbed. That has stayed with me my entire life to this point. It really did change my perception of everything I had known up to that point and it really is like walking away from your young childhood days into being a young adult. I really truly feel it was that significant. It wouldn't be a significant if it happened today because it's so prevalent but back in the 90s and late 80s when it was still kind of an underground thing it was truly eye-opening.
In the Japanese version of the movie Duke actually dies and Falcon takes over the Joe's. The sequel was pretty good as well.
The most upsetting part to me was what they did to Cobra Commander - basically killing him off (turning him into a snake, same difference really). I really liked CC, hated Serpentor & the other nonsense that came along with him. Was still a really good movie tho.
I am also a member of the "I hated Serpentor" team.
As the second season of the TV series progressed there was growing dissatisfaction within Cobra towards Serpentor's flawed leadership. In one episode Cobra Commander, Destro, Firefly, Storm Shadow, and the Dreadnocks were revealed to be members of a cabal called the Coil that sought to depose Serpentor. Even Dr. Mindbender called Serpentor a "spoiled brat". But in the movie Cobra Commander was blamed for Cobra's failures and the rest of the Cobra High Command was loyal to Serpentor.
I was fortunate enough this year to get my copy of the DVD autographed by Sgt. Slaughter, as well as attend the fathom screening.
I saw GI JOE the movie on TV after Kung fu theater one Saturday afternoon.
It was amazing! Opening top notch. Duke "dies" I teared upped ( I was a kid ). " he said yo ....joeee....) It was real man-- It was real! Nice video!
Michael Bell, Francois Chou, and Sgt Slaughter have all signed my copy!
That Transformers movie will be amazing! As long as they don't do something stupid, like kill off all the main characters.
This channel has superb content editing and presentation. Paced well and entertaining information. Good job. Been viewing a while.
When Falcon was given Don Johnson's voice, I was at a point in the 80's where my daytime cartoons were crossing over into the new primetime adult shows I was just starting to watch.
This was huge...after Hasbro got all those famous voices for The Movie, Don Johnson was hitting the apex of his career at night time and his pastel, art deco-inspired Miami coutured self was now validating my daytime obsession with G.I. Joe to all the perceived scoffing adults did at me hogging the TV in the afternoon.
Great episode! I remember GI Joe: The Movie very fondly, but I was just about done with GI Joe by 1987. I had been collecting them since 1982. They had such a great run... the figures, the vehicles... such great memories!
This Movie is another integral knot tying GI Joe and Transformers together in my heart
This movie was available to watch on RUclips (for free) if people are interested.
That's how I watched it for the first time in it's entirety. As a kid I never caught all 5 parts. I typically saw first 2 episodes and missed the rest.
A+ video!
I watched this film at a friend's birthday party sleepover and remember how strange the whole thing seemed.
It was really disturbing when Cobra Commander turned into a snake!
I didn't know it was basically the end of an era I was watching.
Such a high-quality video, thank you so much for making it.
That is a dramatic-comedic winner when you are saying wishy-washy and making those hand movements. Keep on the lookout for imitators!
Another great retrospective, Dan! You make some of the best nostalgia based content on the net. Thanks for making these!
Only toy galaxy could bring back the grape stomping lady so masterfully.
Glad I wasn't the only one who remember that.
Cobra La La La La La La La! 🐍 🐍
This movie was my introduction to the franchise (or rather, Action Force: the Movie was) and if it hadn't had sci-fi elements I'd have bailed before the end. Military ain't my thing. As it is, I've owned this movie four times over and watch at least annually. Love it.
Tell you what though, I never got the Shangri-la reference until right now. I am a big dumb donkey (but I was onccccce a maaaan).
Prior to merging with Hasbro's GI Joe, there was an entire Space Force in Palitoy's Action Force. As a sci-fi kid myself, I think you might like them!
@@peppermintspacecapsule9898 Oh yeah, with the skull vehicles!
That's right! The TRIAD FIGHTER versus the ROBOSKULL!
After all these years, the Intro to Gi Joe the Movie gives me goose bumps. One of the best intros of all time
A few months ago my local theater had a screening of this movie. I bought a ticket, sat down, and watched. During the final battle at the end, a thunderstorm caused the electricity to go out in the theater! Mother Nature or Cobra Commander avenging his humiliation? You decide.
The movie blew my mind as a kid. I was a big wrestling fan at the time and was hyped about sgt slaughter. Nemesis inforcer was Bae back then 😂. I wish the gave us more of Cobra la. It was awesome.
Dude signed my copy of the movie with his entire "Two ways out of my command" line to Falcon.
Hasbro brought out 2 -3Packs of "GI Joe: The Movie" figures. One was Sgt. Slaughter's Renegades, and the other one was Cobra-la Figures...
Great video! Thanks for the rundown! Keep up the great work!