G.I. Joe: Retaliation

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Jordan, Amberly, Paul, Michael

A very different film from the first one. Made only more apparent by having just watched it before the screening. The first film is a huge silly cartoon made in live action, with fantastical gadgets and technology and ridiculous action sequences. But most importantly it was fun.

This time they get rid of the majority of the original cast, the strip everything down, pull way back on the scale, get read of all the gadgets and fantastic stuff (except for one or two bits here and there) and make a gritty combat movie. That pretty much the exact opposite of what I would hope for.

They probably saved on budget, but the 3d conversion did them no favors. If they were going for such a change in tone they could have at least tried to improve the dialogue as well. Pretty disappointing.