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Ron Friedman (writer)
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The G.I. Joe force must oppose a Cobra organization that has secretly allied with a subterranean reptilian who were their founders. full summary | full synopsis
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Mutation
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Helicopter
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Action Force: The Movie (UK)
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93 min
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Several scenes were storyboarded but never animated. One featured reaccuring character Hector Ramirez reporting from the UN after the spores are launched into orbit. Another scene featured Jinx with her blindfold on and holding a sword, trying to stop the Thunder Machine from escaping with Serpentor. Falcon sees her and pushes her out of the way. She starts to argue with him but then they notice smoke coming from the stockade. The scene then leads into Falcon running into Hawk.
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Revealing mistakes: The word "barracks" is misspelled as "barraks" on the side of a building within the G.I. Joe headquarters compound.
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Golobulus:
Then a brilliant nobleman came to my attention.
[a 14th century scientist is seen examining a plant of unknown origin. The pods on the top of the plant explode and spray a strange mist in the man's face. He starts to develop snake scales all over his face]
Golobulus: Although he was disfigured in a labortory accident he was my choice.
[We see Cobra Commander as we know him]
Golobulus: To raise a mighty army and take back this so called "civilized" society which drove us underground. You were my choice Cobra Commander and you failed *miserably!*
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[a 14th century scientist is seen examining a plant of unknown origin. The pods on the top of the plant explode and spray a strange mist in the man's face. He starts to develop snake scales all over his face]
Golobulus: Although he was disfigured in a labortory accident he was my choice.
[We see Cobra Commander as we know him]
Golobulus: To raise a mighty army and take back this so called "civilized" society which drove us underground. You were my choice Cobra Commander and you failed *miserably!*
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References "Dragon Ball: Doragon bôru" (1986)
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Yo Joe!
I'm proud to say that I love this movie. I own it on DVD, and have watched it several times. It just keeps getting better.
What makes this one of the great cartoons from the 80's was it's realistic nature. The idea was obviously post- cold war type conflict put to paper, spawned a few characters, and was animated. And, unlike a lot of crap made today and back then, it worked out very well. And the reason was great writing. The writers of the show/movie had to juggle a story around several dozen characters, tie it all together, make it work, and not overwhelm the audience with it.
Success!
Other cartoons couldn't do that as well as GI Joe, or even transformers, without coming off as sugary or presented in a way that talked down to its viewers. And Gi Joe was always fresh with its story, and even kept elements of past episodes together in an ongoing story.
Now as far as this movie installment is concerned, watching it, you kind of get the idea that this was supposed to be a "next generation" type of story, especially dealing with new Joes on the force, and a new threat more powerful than Cobra. Doing away with Cobra Commander wasn't a plot point I liked, because he was always a great character, but it had a valid reasoning linked into the movie, so I let it go. I almost feel that the drama could have been heightened if Duke had died ( which was originally written into the script), but he is a great character, and we can't have a death on a kids' TV show like that.
The Cobra-La element is the one thing that I think was overplayed. I like the idea of a dormant society from thousands of years back trying to reclaim the Earth, and the characters were cool, but the organic creatures that made up the base were a little too much, like a giant cockroach for a bridge, a big....whatever for an air transport. These things stole some of the reality of the cartoon for me, but are still entertaining nonetheless.
If you're a fan, DEFINITELY watch this film!