I watched this movie last night, but I missed the beginning of the movie cos we came late. Started from about midway into the holographic video conference between Destro and G.I. Joe.

Overall it was an enjoyable movie and I must agree with Lord_Zed that it did feel a lot more closer to the original franchise than Transformers. It seems that Paramount tampered a lot less with G.I. Joe to adapt it for a movie-going audience compared to Transformers. Although it could be argued that Transformers is inherently far more fantastic than G.I. Joe and thus required a greater level of adaptation in order to make it palatable for the movie-going public. But yeah, there seemed to be a lot more homages and original source accuracy compared to the TF movie franchise. The conspiracy theorist in me suspects that Aaron Archer respects the G.I. Joe franchise more than Transformers because he himself has publicly admitted that as a child he grew up as a G.I. Joe fan and not Transformers, and that he didn't really know much about TFs until he was employed by Hasbro. (-_-)

The main thing that I didn't like so much was Baroness - particularly how her 'evil' persona was 'artificially induced' by Cobra Commander which included her love (?) for Destro. One thing I always liked about the original G.I. Joe story was the romance between Baroness and Destro. I was also kinda disappointed with Storm Shadow - he seemed too "bad," although not necessarily evil. I liked how the movie portrayed the murder of their Arashikage master as being somewhat ambiguous - i.e. we saw the master being slain and young Storm Shadow running away but we never actually so how he was killed. It's _looks_ like Storm Shadow killed him but it's not explicitly shown. I always liked the old story where Storm Shadow was basically a good guy but initially fought for COBRA because he was deceived, but later defected to G.I. Joe and fought alongside Snake Eyes. At least, that's how I remember it and admittedly I'm not really a G.I. Joe fan so maybe my memory's sketchy.

I also liked the sparring sticks that they had - reminded me of the ones they used in the 1986 G.I. Joe animated movie only electrified.

P.S.: All the gals were HAWT. Was that Cover Girl who got killed by Zartan?