Customer Ratings & Reviews

The story of OK, Great special effects, thats why I bought it.

It’s an unbearably average action flick. Kinda cool.

When I ordered the blue ray disc it stated it was a 2 disc set but when I received the item - it was only 1 disc - the order was misleading. Not very pleased with the Best Buy website.

Garbage. Doesn't even come close to how fun GI Joe actually is.

DVD that our daughter wanted in her collection at school

No spoilers here. Judging this movie as an adaption of one of the two most popular 1980s cartoons....this is the best one yet. Both the Transformers films missed the target i.m.o., in that they were about the people, not the Transformers. I won't get into detail there. G.I. Joe, on the other hand, gets everything but the costumes right. There are a few things they did that never would have happened in the cartoon. But this is a movie, and the way they did those things worked. The costumes are all different--I would have liked to see at least a few nods to the original costumes, but to be honest with myself, if they had done that, the movie would have looked like a video for The Village People. The only one who looks exactly like she did in the cartoon is the Baroness. But the Baroness is also missing her accent. There's a good reason for that change, however. Aside from the look, this entire movie is just like the cartoon. I highly recommend sitting down and watching a few episodes of the original cartoon before watching this movie. I did. And it's pretty obvious the writers and the director, and the actors, did as well. The writers did a fantastic job. It was so much like the cartoon, with all the crazy plot twists and ridiculously convenient and improbably character connections, I kind of got the feeling this movie was written in the 1980s by the same people who wrote the TV show. This movie moves very fast, it avoids answering all sorts of questions. There's all sorts of technology and fancy personal war vehicles that seem to come out of nowhere...you'll find yourself thinking, "Gee, it's a good thing they had a bunch of those handy" several times. Just like the cartoon.

4 of 5 stars for the action movie G.I. Joe. OK, so I've lost touch with some of the new things... When you say GI Joe to me, I think of the action toy GI Joe with his circa WWII Jeep and uniform. I seem to have slept thru all of the various modernizations of GI Joe including the comic book, cartoon movies and newer toys. So, going into this movie, I had no expectatoins of what it would be. So, I've learned that the action toy has morphed into an elite military unit with sci-fi special weapons and tools. Only the elite become GI Joe's (men and women) who work out of "The Pit". This movie was very well made. Action from the first minutes to introduce the team during a firefight to protect a truck convoy. Next we find the hero of protecting that convoy is taken to the Pit and introduced to the team; after traning he becomes a GI Joe. The bulk of the movie was focused on the recovery of the item taken from that truck convoy and learning who was behnd the plot. Some good twists and unexpected things. Great action, wow sets and special effects that were seamless, the characters were a bit flat and 2-D hence the 4 stars. Oh, did I mention great action (yes, I did). This is a fun movie to watch and is worth a couple of bags of popcorn to enjoy. I do recommnd it. The blu-ray had sufficient behind-the-scenes contents on a second disk in the set, however, that disk and materials were on SD on a DVD; too bad, no HD extra contents. I do recommend this movie.

I have waited for this movie my entire life. It is great when it respects the comic source (Breaker's gum chewing, Hawk is the General instead of Duke etc). It was distracting to see Hawk dressed as Flint, The Baroness as an American involved with Duke, Roadblock...errr Heavy Duty with a Brittish accent and no Shipwreck. Since the cast is made up mostly of Stephen Summers' actors, why did he not ask Hugh Jackman to fill in for the Sailor. Brendon Fraser also pops up for 5 minutes as a Gungho / Sgt Slaughter fascimile. This was a fun movie, and Channing Tatum was great, but I was left wanting something more in line with the Comic. I thought that was kind of the whole point of the film. If they just wanted to create something new, why even use the G.I.Joe name. Also, I actually thought the acting was pretty good across the board.

I HAVE SEEN ALMOST EVERY SCI FI AND A COLLECTION OF 200 DVD'S AND I BELIEVE THIS RATED IN THE UPPER 20%. THIS MOVIE HAD GREAT SPECIAL EFFECTS AND WAS IN A FUTURE WORLD. I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS TO BE IN THE FUTURE WHICH MADE IT A PLEASANT SURPRISE. THE ACTING WAS GOOD AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS LEFT YOU IN AWE, ALTHOUGH AT TIMES IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE UNTIL YOU REALIZED THAT THIS WAS THE FUTURE AND ANYTHING COULD BE POSSIBLE. I ALSO BELIEVE THIS LEFT YOU WITH A REALIZATION THAT IF YOU DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF THE PLANET THIS FUTURE COULD BE VERY POSSIBLE.

I grew up watching G.I.Joe so this was high on my list. Then I went and saw it. The story line was ok but the history of the characters were off real badly. I mean how hard is it to get the toy BIO's and use that in the story line..... Another thing was costumes were sadly created they looked nothing like the cartoon characters....but overall this movie was ok...

This was a pretty good movie. It had great action. It is a good recreation of a classic name. It benefits from having a lot of big name actors at one time or another. The characters were all beleivable in their personalities. The main thing wrong with it would be Channing Tatum. The guy delivers no conviction, or emotion with his lines. He just talks. There were also no extras on the DVD i got which sucked. If you can stand that, this is a definite buy for your collection.

Excellent action movie...not something that will get an oscar or golden globe but great graphics and great for blowing things up. Definitely if you want to experience it, you want to do it in blu ray!!!

This movie was full of bangs and booms, but the acting wasn't very good. If you like to see people get killed and very attractive women in tight clothes, then this is for you. If you think that Transformers was pointless, you'll hate this even worse.

I really enjoy this movie. It's G.I. Joe, what's not to love? I grew up with this cartoon and it was nice to see it on the big screen finally in all of its live action glory. The movie doesn't take itself seriously, and why should it? It's based off of a cartoon from the 80s. The action is fun, the characters are cool and a lot of stuff blows up. That's all there is really. It's a fun action movie. The downside is that they have a stupid story and tried to throw some love story elements in there. Didn't work. Also, Cobra Commander looked dumb. Overall a fun movie and looks great on blu.

Good action film - though take a little of the humor out and make the next one a 'darker' film. The imitated violence already ensures this film is not for little kids - so let's make it a grown ups action film.

From beginning to end this movie was molten! My kids and I were glued to the tv! My home theatre never sounded better. The audio was beautiful and the picture was unbelievable. The acting was great and the special effects had us on our feat! Folks don't believe the nay sayers, this movie kicked butt!! Get it on blu-ray if you have a blu ray player.

This movie was entertaining and fun to watch. Plenty of action and humor too. Very good sword fight scenes as well. Overall not a bad choice.

A decent action/adventure film that may introduce a new generation of kids to an action figue/toy line I still love in my 30's.

This is a really great movie for a home theather. The action and special effect are wonderful Kids realllyget into this movie also

I like this movie alot thats the reason i bought it alot of action. I watched this when i was young i brought alot of memories