I thought it was pretty fun. Ninjas! It even based some of the vehicles on the toys, which was nice to see. I liked that they tied in the Zartan/Storm Shadow/Hard Master stuff, although I imagine it made almost no sense to people who hadn't read the comics of that arc. It surprised me that they had almost none of the Joe characters from the first movie, although I was glad they made the Roadblock/Heavy Duty switch.

You're absolutely not. It currently has a 29% on Rotten Tomatoes, after all.

Yeah, they just shoved us right into the middle of that story. Overall, the narrative was super sloppy, but luckily the action and humor overshadowed that for me.

I thought this movie was terrible and I was actually a fan of the first movie. I think the biggest problem with the movie was the poor choice to kill off Duke. Instead of Channing Tatum, we get the incredibly boring Flint who has zero charisma and on screen presence. The scenes with him and Lady Jaye were cringe worthy. Even without Duke, the movie would have been much better had it just focused on Road Block, Joe and Snake Eyes. Flint, Lady Jaye and Jinx add absolutely nothing to the movie.

Going to watch it tomorrow.

The extended cliffside ninja fight scene between Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes was alone worth the price of admission for me. And how can anyone not like the Rock and Bruce Willis in one movie?

This movie was bad

I didn't see the 1st one until early last year but enjoyed it and decided I would go see this one. It was pretty good and exactly what you would expect.

i did like G.I. Joe Retaliation but i wouldn't give it a four star i think that they muffed up the G.I. Joe the i grow up with like how they killed off duke, firefly, and zartan i also believe that they messed up with storm shadow he would never work with the joes all in all it was an alright movie i give it two and a half stars

I had high hopes for this movie but ultimately....I'm pretty disappointed. The focus was clearly on action, which delivered, but at the expense of the story. They made no effort to explain Zartan's connection to the Hard Master or Arashikage. I can only imagine how random it must have appeared for fans who do not know that backstory. And thats how the entire movie felt. Random.

Rza sneaks into another movie.

If I had the ability to give half stars, I'd give it a 3.5. But sadly, I do not!

In several versions of the comic Storm Shadow works with the Joes.

It sucked... well IMO it did... But that was expected.

Paramount has confirmed they'll make a 3rd film.

It actually made Storm Shadow a far more dynamic character. No longer is it one ninja is good and wears black and the other is bad and wears white. It gives him more depth, and in the comics has made for some great stories. At heart these two men are not enemies, but brothers, and that also provides for a far richer story than this guy hates this guy and that is it. You do know that they didn't just make it up for the movie right, this vaguely does follow comic book canon with the Zartan killing Hard Master story, though it was done with an arrow not a sword. Also I doubt they will bring back Baroness, storywise it makes little sense with the direction they took in the first film.

You're right...I don't have to leave my brain at the door when I contemplate why some of the wisest beings in Middle Earth risked the fate of their world by trying to have two Hobbits walk the ring to Mount Doom instead of just having the giant eagles fly them there....shut up.

@lunacyde: I know you're a huge Joe fan... what did you think?

I was pretty disappointed in this film, which is surprising because I went in thinking that it would just be a popcorn flick and noting to myself, not to be disappointed.

I did like Channing Tatum and the Dwayne Johnson's performances, and the film had some funny moments. There was a lot of action and firefights. I will always love everything about Snake Eyes.

However, the lack of a good sensible plot was REALLY distracting to me. I tried not to think about it, but I couldnt help it. Though I liked the twist about Storm Shadow, it took awhile to get to that point and prior to it, I thought the ninja side of the story was a bit out of place. I liked it, but it was almost as if there were two separate movies going on at once which was distracting and annoying for the first hour or so.

I didn't like the blindmaster at all... it looked really bad and also the old woman in the mountains... It felt really random that SPOILER (Zartan killed their master). I liked that twist about storm shadow, but having Zartan be responsible felt out of place.

What happened to the tech from the first one? Perhaps they are forgetting all about it (and that Storm Shadow should be dead) but the first one had a lot of awesome weaponry, and this one just had regular weapons, besides firefly's tech. Oh, and the Zeus satellites? How did those secretly get into space?

I will have to watch it again sometime, but I was disappointed.

This made the top list of my most favorite comic book movies for sure

Just saw this on DVD and I really wish they would just make a movie based on Snake-Eyes, the scenes with fighting the group of ninjas were arguable the best parts of the movie. Cobra Commander was much better in the movie than in the previous one as well.