Good and evil have been raging against each other since the dawn of man. There are a million billion (to be precise) incarnations of the dichotomy, but none so viscerally driven as the battle between GI Joe and Cobra: The America military and it’s sworn enemy at any given time. For lack of a single nation to demonize in our nation’s colorful and multinational war history, Cobra served as a variable for any one who favored world domination over liberty and justice for all.
When the cartoon ended, the allegory slipped away suddenly, snapped like the rubber band that held together the array of highly pose-able and hopelessly cheap figurines bearing the show’s name. At the time, Hollywood still had original movie ideas and was not yet at the desperate stage of remaking classic films and television shows into highly stylized blockbusters. Thankfully, they’ve long before swallowed their pride and the public was delighted to hear that a live action GI Joe was in the making about a year ago. Well, the day is here. A freakin’ GI Joe movie. Bad ass, dude.
What can we expect from this film, which is directed by the guy who saved Brendan Fraser’s acting career and launched The Rock’s with his series of awful The Mummy movies? Well, it probably won’t be the largely no-name cast. No, the one saving grace here is a man who as shined since his appearance alongside Ringo Starr in 1981’s cult classic Caveman. Go on, Dennis Qauid. Save my childhood.
If anyone can save it…it’s Dennis Quaid…and the Baroness.