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Based on Hasbro's immensely popular action figures, G.I. Joe is the ultimate elite fighting force, engaged in an extraordinary action-adventure matchup of good versus evil! In G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the G.I. Joe team, armed with the coolest hi-tech gadgets and weapons, travels the world from the Egyptian desert to the polar ice caps in a high stakes pursuit of Cobra, an evil international organization threatening to use a technology that could bring the world to its knees.
"A brazen, earsplitting, eye-popping, oddly satisfying action extravaganza..." David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer
"...exciting and consistently well-managed." Tasha Robinson, The Onion A.V. Club
Editor's Note
The "Real American Hero" goes international with this big-screen action film. Stephen Sommers (THE MUMMY) directs this live-action adventure featuring a huge cast of stars, including Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Sienna Miller. Ray Park, who made his name playing Darth Maul in THE PHANTOM MENACE, takes on the role of Snake Eyes.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Feature with Audio Commentary by director Stephen Sommers and Bob Ducsay | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - DVD Review By: Chris Barsanti - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/23/2009 5:09 PM | |
For better or for worse, what G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra inarguably does is to replicate quite well the experience of watching the militarized toy-advertisement cartoons that enraptured so many youthful males during the Reagan era. The film, as programmed by Stephen Sommers, captures the same gung-ho esprit des corps and the theme of banding together with an internationally diversified team (led by an appropriately rock-jawed American, of course), to do battle with a super-evil terrorist force. ...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 11/3/2009 |
| Running Time: 117 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2009 | | UPC: 00097363439240 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"[T]he pic expectedly packs some eye-popping sights and a nifty collection of gadgets and gizmos." 08/06/2009A.V. Club
"[D]irector Stephen Sommers has the story play out via a series of closely chained setpieces....Exciting and consistently well-managed." -- Grade: B 08/13/2009 Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Stephen Sommers marshals the mayhem with the same hectic enthusiasm as his previous live-action cartoons." 10/01/2009 Variety 7 of 10
Launched in 1964 as a series of plastic military figures and reworked in comic and cartoon form any number of times since, the G.I. Joe team underwent its most significant transformation in 1983, when its ranks of U.S. personnel expanded to include elite soldiers from around the globe. The screenplay by Stuart Beattie, David Elliot and Paul Lovett sticks to that path, with Uncle Sam's representatives at the forefront of a multicultural crew on what is always referred to as an international mission...In the not-too-distant future, regular Army buddies Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are transporting a deadly weapon, capable of "eating" buildings and even whole cities, that's been manufactured by Scottish arms magnate McCullen (Christopher Eccleston). Intending to steal his own device and hold the world to ransom, McCullen, a member of the evil organization Cobra, dispatches private army superfighters Storm Shadow (South Korean superstar Byung-hun Lee), a ninja dressed in natty white threads, and the Baroness (Sienna Miller), Duke's ex-g.f., who favors slinky leather jumpsuits...As helmed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy franchise, Van Helsing), the pic expectedly packs some eye-popping sights and a nifty collection of gadgets and gizmos. Best of the bunch is the Stan Winston Studio-created "accelerator suit," allowing the G.I Joe squad to sprint around Paris at 40 miles per hour and destroy half the city while attempting to save it from McCullen's attack...While thesping is not the main game here, having a cast of bright young things certainly helps, and Quaid gets in a few nice John Wayne-like moments as the no-nonsense boss. Widescreen visuals are OK, though some effects finishing looks rushed...When it can be heard over the cacophony of sound effects, Alan Silvestri's score hits the right notes. Other technical aspects are on the mark. - Richard Kuipers
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