1987's G.I. Joe: The Movie: Everything You Didn't Know | SYFY WIRE
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- Yo Joe! G.I. Joe the movie is a brilliant and completely insane film that mixes the military with a weird lovecraftian tale and also there is Don Johnson. Here's everything you didn't know about this animated classic.
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More About G.I. Joe: The Movie: G.I. Joe: The Movie (also known as Action Force: The Movie in the UK) is a 1987 animated film spin-off from the animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, based on the original Hasbro toyline. It was produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions and was animated in Japan by Toei Animation. Created at the height of the G.I. Joe craze in the 1980s, G.I. Joe: The Movie was intended as a theatrical release to be closely followed by The Transformers: The Movie. However, the G.I. Joe film encountered unexpected production delays which allowed the Transformers feature to be released first. Due to the poor box office performances of The Transformers: The Movie and My Little Pony: The Movie, G.I. Joe: The Movie was instead released direct-to-video as well as aired on television in syndication, first in feature length format and later split into a five-part miniseries format as part of the show's syndication package.
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I loved that opening sequence. 30 years later and I still get goosebumps when I watch it.
The 1st Dragon me too. the music in that movie during fights was beyond time itself.
Si el intro era buenisimoooooo
Likewise
Memories...just classic memories for me. I was hyped for this.
I've gotten my ids into it as well. I had it on VHS and DVD. My youngest likes it on VHS (I recently had a vhs player passed down to me fyi)
That opening sequence is FREAKING AMAZING.
I saw it recently and it had me wanting to wave the American flag in the lawn at the end!
Yes sir
Only thing that comes close is Young Guns opening.
OH! YES! IT! WAS!
vonmatrices COBRA! COBRA!!!! COBRA! Yes it was a good intro.
We all know Pythona's infiltration opening sequence was one of the best parts of this movie. Yet no mention - SHAME!
Had a Mad Crush on Pythona when I was a kid! Ha! Not as mad as my Baroness crush, but hey!
And no figure either i woulda loved a Pythona figure
She was a bad ass female bio ninja or organic ninja. She could break into the terrordrome like it was made of wet toilet paper.
@@rrrolf word jus looked it up but jesus shit is goin from 123-180$ like wtf its not even a vintage figure from the 80s they jus made it in 2016 as an exclusive member figure but man it was def an awesome figure,if i hadnt sold off my collectio. Few yrs ago i woulda saved up..but now with no other joes and at 35 yrs old spending 130$ on a single 3 3/4" plastic action figure is a lil crazy lol...Yo Joe!
Same could be said about Sgt. Slaughter's Renegades' infiltration scene.
Transformers the Movie and G.I. Joe movie were both EPIC, the good times...🍻
that transformer song is a classic
Nostalgia is great but at the time both movies were so bad they killed the franchises.
My son loves listening to the soundtrack.
I miss these cartoons!
Very true.
I remember this originally aired as a 5 part episode. Keep in mind this was the 80s. The idea of a series finale was extremely rare (shows just stopped airing unless you were MASH or Hill Street Blues) and never happened for kids cartoon. Every day that week what happened on GI Joe was the talk of the school.
This wasn't actually a series finale. At the last minute it changed studios (to DIC) and they did two more seasons of G.I. Joe.
In my area, I got the five part Operation: Dragonfire that started the new season for DIC, but I didn't see any others... I thought that was the end until years later when I found the DIC series on DVD.
operation dragon fire was awesome. alley viper really shined. as did low light and scoop
I think the 5 part series referred to here was when Dr Mindbender was creating Serpentor , not this movie.
@@jackiepuppet9289 Arise Serpentor Arise (the creation of Serpentor) wasn't a series finale either. That was the start of Season 2.
I saw this as a 5 part series on TBS (I think), and it was hosted by Sgt. Slaughter. My 12 yr self was pleased with both the movie and the presentation lol
Everything I didn't know? You just summarized the movie...
And you forgot Sgt. Slaughter
I think he was intentionally omitted since he sucked almost as much as Cobra La. When I saw this movie, I knew GI Joe was on the decline.
I loved Sgt Slaughter
@@RansomeStoddard you are the only one that share that feels like that sense Sgt slaughter was highly sought after toy!
@@TheWingsoffury If you say so. I didn't know any other kids who liked him. Everyone liked Snake-Eyes, Duke, Stalker, or Gung-Ho in my neighborhood.
@@RansomeStoddard You are joking, right? This movie was/is phenomenal and mind-blowing!!
this movie was much better then the live action G.I.Joe Movies
Ronald Sprowal Transformers too.
Yeah they should have just kept it animated
Better than teen titans go
@@frankreynolds445 you forgot about care bears dude... and 75 percent of Disney channel after 2016
Omg Teen Titans Go was One of the Worse movies I ever seen in my life
I was 10 when this came out...it's still awesome. I used to make my transformer and GI JOES have epic battles, literally in a sandbox. 80s we're the best time to be a kid.
Amen
I remember when this premiered on tv. It was broadcast on WGN out of Chicago on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. My Mom recorded it and I kept that recording until it was released on dvd, now I have it on bluray. Easily one of my favorite movies growing up. The Cartoon and Toyline were my favorites from the 80's.
I loved this movie as a kid and was so into the stakes and scifi insanity. It was just a tremendous movie that my siblings and I acted out almost every day, including Sgt slaughters pile drives into the batsnake's chest. And this is for the US of A! Even being 8 I thought that was superbly over the top. Oh the 80s.
My favorite part is the intro of the movie, all the way thru Pythona breaking into the Terror Drome taking out Cobra Crimson guards and Cobra soldiers to get into Serpentor throne room. That scene gets me hyped up, to this day it still does. God I love Cobra, they always had badass looking troopers and the best vehicles...
I miss the 80s
COBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Dennis Sologaistoa the music alone and sound effects plus fights scenes there alone was epic.
The 80's are definitely kind of coming back. I really miss them and it will never be like that again. The internet is awesome, but it ruined everything.
@@fafazaj6726...
Yes it was, totally epic...
@@robertm4050...
I miss the 80s so much, being a kid at that time was awesome. Waking up to saturday morning cartoons. I noticed that they don't do that no more to the kids of nowadays.
"traumatizing kids" sure does get used a lot by people who weren't alive when the movies came out in the first place
The death of Optimus traumatized me at that time.
yeah, I was about 9yrs old....I will NEVER get over Optimus Prime dying. It hurt bad...
@Floyd Roberts I thoroughly loved the film, but it was traumatizing as a child ;-)
Yrs ltr: STILL shook-up behind that - and "Prowl" (the 280Z police car) - my 1st Autobot toy >sniff< :-(...
I was more upset as a kid when Starscream “died”. I was all about the cooler looking Decepticons
The video title should be: "A complete summary of GI Joe the movie."
"Mostly complete", missing the Sgt Slaughter tie ins, the finale was brief... I didn't get nostalgic. I felt trivilaized by a skim of Wikipedia.
Nice reference to Dial-Tone. LOL
I was one of those kids that was thrilled with the Transformers/GI Joe crossover episode in Transformers season 3. I actually really liked Cobra Commander because he was voiced by Chris Latta who also voiced Starscream and their voices were so "over-the-top-evil" that I always laughed at them. Cobra Commander appearing in the Transformers episode as "Snake, the former leader of the terrorist organization that created 'Synthoids'" which was of course, Cobra (as he shouted at the end of the episode) proved that he somehow managed to get himself back to "normal" (whatever normal is for Cobra Commander). So GI Joe: The Movie wasn't in fact the end for him. Unfortunately, as many know,; Chris Latta is no longer with us and without his voice, Starscream and Cobra Commander will never seem real to me ever again.
Right to video? I saw it in 1987 on channel wpix 11 complete as a special event before it went to video.
sxhbk
This is where I saw it also, I think. Is that a Maine channel? I live in Canada, and I think that's the channel we had it on.
They showed it over the course of a week I believe. It was on before school. By that time there hadn't been a new Joe episode in years. I couldn't believe it when it came on. The first scene of the movie with Pythona breaking into the Cobra base, still blows me away. The animation is amazing!
sxhbk Same here. With Sgt. Slaughter as the host.
Yeah, i saw this movie on tv one weekend when i was a kid. It came out on video a while later. Somebody's facts are off.
sxhbk me too, WPIX here in NY.
sxhbk same here right before school and after too
Even as a 12 year old kid,I thought "Oh,he's dead. That snakes mouth is the size of his heart. There's no way."
, Nemesis the enforcer was a cool character
the action figure was awful tho.
He was , until sgt slaughter beat his ass at the end.
Original? Yeah but the 25th line's (2007) is much better. He was packaged with Falcon in the comic double figs pack.
Nemesis Enforcer*
Paul Sheppard
Nemesis enforcer was my favorite in the movie. Real badass!
One of the greatest animated movie openings of the 80s!! Still gives me chills!! Was best part of the whole movie.
Nemesis Enforcer vs Sgt Slaughter for the WWF title.
Lol.
Right
No disqualification
I quit match!!
Side bout jinx vs. pythonna for the women’s title.
Love that fight... I was so hyped for them to go at it.
And this...is for the US of A!!!
.....And Golobulus vs. The Undertaker!!😈
Yup, I bawled when Prime died. And BOY, GI Joe did have some moments of gore. Duke's hit, and Golobus's clearly gouged out eye.
Ima let you finish but Cobra had the hardest intro of all time!!
The reason for Don Johnson's casting in GI Joe was the same for casting Judd Nelson in Transformers.
The studios involved wanted to have some (80's style) buzz for marketing. As mentioned here, Johnson was huge for starring in Miami Vice; Nelson was a hot ticket because of the Breakfast Club.
You forgot to mention Cobra was trying to use the BET machine to broadcast Black Entertainment Television world wide.
That's why Falcon destroyed. Got tired of Doc and Roadblock talking 106 and Park
Lol. B. E. T.
Funny
You are an awesome American... Yo Joe❗️❗️❗️
The BET was Tesla tech
I was in El Salvador at the time this movie got there in VHS, I literally must've watched it over 100 times even though I didn't understand English, the opening scene, the training montage of falcon, the final battle, loved it loved looooved it!
That opening was 🔥🔥
Only problem I had was left out the two coolest characters Nemesis enforcer versus Sergeant Slaughter epic battle
"This one's for Duke! This one's for Falcon! This one's FOR ME!! And this ones for the U.S. of A . . . RRRRAAAAGGGHHH!!!"
I definitely would have gone to the movies to see this. This explains everything. I always wondered why they started making alien GI JOE Figures after a while. Never figured this out to this day until now. Thank God for TH-cam!
I just had wished they had continued the cartoon series after the movie with the '87, '88 lineups.
I still love old gi joe rah. I still love its background music
You never hear fans talk about the background music. It's recycled a lot but it's so good
If you are a little girl watching that intro to the animated movie,that intro is so manly,so pro American,that it will turn all little girls watching it into men and men into Uber men,haha!!
Cut to the extended shot aimed directly at that one Cobra guy's asshole.
I thought it was as cheesy as fook. Which is how most ‘hell yeah we’re Merrikin’ stuff comes across.
That intro makes my balls drop all over again....and again....and....til I have to pick them up off the floor....cuz they're pulling on my beard
I saw an interview with Buzz Dixon where he stated that he created the Cobra-La story as a way to introduce Serpentor in the second season. Hasbro instead went ahead with his alternate idea about a crazy DNA chase and revisited Cobra-La for the movie.
Didnt mention at the end when Jinx tells Don Johnson to "grab her ankles" 😂
Love Every Bit Of That Movie
Darylifill Ifill B1 yoooooooooo
My youngest brother got Sgt. Slaughter to sign his DVD copy of G.I. Joe the movie...
OOPS! Duke, not Hawk puts Falcon on guard duty. Hawk sends Falcon to Sgt Slaughter's Slaughter house. You didn't mention him or his men.
No mention of Nemesis Enforcer!!!
This movie was awesome! Such a memorable part of my childhood.
I still have this VHS somewhere. Loved watching that! Although I strongly suggest checking out GI Joe "Resolute". One of my favorites!
I grew up as a military brat in Europe. I don't know because I lived on a military base but we did have a theater release of GI Joe the movie. I remember seeing a movie and going straight to the PX to buy the toys for it. And I still have those toys today.
"Everything You Didn't Know" apparently is a dude giving a summary of what is in the movie. wtf! I learned nothing new
True..
My Childhood Was So Cool.
I love how Cobra Commander was so hands on
"Lights, camera, Cobra" - At that point he was still meant to be human. Whenever he's wearing the hood you can see human flesh around his eyes and in Cobra telethon episode you can see his normal flesh colour hands.
I’ve seen this movie so much as a kid I can still quote it 25 years later
GI Joe was such an amazing part of my childhood. I miss the 80's. Best time ever to have been a kid.
Recently, showed my 5 year old son the opening sequence of this movie. Immediately afterwards he wanted to pretend to be a soldier in Cobra. Hopefully terrorist organizations don't start developing catchy theme songs.
plus GI Joe the animated movie had Sgt. Slaughter
Still got it on VHS I remember when it kame on channel 43 here in Cleveland OH Saturday morning Hosted by Sgt Slaughter
There's nothing in this video you wouldn't know if you watched the movie.
*I've never ever seen the entire movie.*
I stopped watching this midway through bec I realized I needed this movie in my life with no more spoilers.
Forget that, " the Touch" rules!
I have the theme song on my iPod. it still gets me pumped.
That theme song ....BEST OF THE BEST for an animation movie...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌
Well,it's an '80s animated movie...love it no matter what millenials say.
wait.. what are millennials saying about it?
@@TheEvilDM That we saw it growing up and upon later rewatching realize that it sucked.
I was raised in the early 2000's and my dad introduced me to stuff he grew up on such as Gi Joe and Masters of the universe. I'm 18 and I still love both franchises.
The oldest millennials were born in the 80's and likely grew up with this show. Gen X, do you realize that by 2029, all 80s born Millennials will be in their 40s?
@@wiibrockster You aren't a Millennial though, so you're good.
it is interesting,if Duke had in fact died in the movie,would his action figure still be included in the tiger force sub team of G I JOE?
It's hilarious how stupid Hasbro was with the tf and gi joe movies let's kill the leaders of each good guy team but let's also have the guys we want to replace them with as leaders be responsible for their deaths that'll get the fans behind them
Ironically, the studio who created the memorable comic book lines and the TV show could do wonders with it. *cough* Marvel *cough*.
Ironically, the studio who created the memorable comic book lines and the TV show could do wonders with it. *cough* Marvel *cough*.
Great video. Always loved this movie.
I've never seen anyone read the cue cards so intently.
I wish they would've released GI Joe in the movies, first, instead of Transformers. Maybe they would've ended up with both being able to be be in theaters...
Uhh, this was just a recap of the movie pretty much. Not much in terms of new behind the scenes. Only thing new was the supposed "urban legend" of nude Zarana.
One thing I deffinetly know, I saw this movie so many times when i was like 5 to 8. That intro got me so hyped.
The opening Pythona sequence, the rescue and escape of Serpentor, and the infiltration of the marauders into the Terror Drome were great and so intense!
As a kid watching the movie on cable I don't remember the over-dub saying Duke was in a coma. I was pretty sad that he died. Then about 12 years later I bought the movie on VHS and was like "huh, they changed the ending so that Duke didn't die" when all the Joes cheer at the end in a long distance camera shot where you can't see anyone talking, they say something like "good news, Duke's ok and recovered". Weird, but too little too late. My childhood was forever changed.
The Cobra Commander devolution was startling to watch as a child, but I couldn’t look away. This film is packed with drama. The opening theme song and animation are epic!
I love this movie, I was a kid when this came out in the 80’s. Came straight to tv. Transformers my first love. They made a thunder cat movie that came straight to TV movie cartoons
I remember thunder cats the movie. It premiered on Fox, which was new at the time
I'm not really sure, but I think I heard Beachhead curse in one scene.
Beach-Head's "shoot" did sound like "shit" when he downed Jinx. But, it was "shoot".
I would like to see a prequel series about the Cobra-LA empire.
Me too Fife, For Sure!!
Its a awesome movie. Eat popcorn while you watch it.
I don't know if I am late, but Duke put Falcon on guard duty, not General Hawk.
Duke had far more military seniority- even Flint had more seniority than Falcon!!!
I still love both cartoon movies. Got them on dvd. Brings back memories for me
That opening sequence still stands strong today!
I still have very fond memories of watching the G.I. Joe movie when it first came out.
G.I. Joe: The Movie confirmed what The Empire Strikes Back first taught me: the bad guys always get the cooler theme music.
Duke was one of many Joe leaders; Optimus IS the Autobots.
Rob Morris yeah! Check out the g2 Autobots logo. We know whose face that is.
Duke was the NCOIC or 1st Sgt of the GI Joe unit. In most US Army units, the highest ranking enlisted is a E-8/1SG or sometimes a Master Sgt. These are normally active duty soldiers near retirement or those who do not plan on going on to E-9/CSM.
@@DavidLLambertmobile they say he refused a commission because he wanted to stay on the frontlines with his troops...
💯🔥🔥🔥 I grew up watching all these cartoons ahhhhh good memories 😏
I love this movie so much. I forgot all about it, and watched it recently and couldn't believe how awesome it was. I did not understand it when I was like 10 when it came out. It's a special piece of entertainment no doubt.
COBRA LALALALALALALALALA!
True fact, the first time the aired GI Joe the Movie, it aired during the regular GI Joe cartoon time, BUT, it started like 30 mins into the movie. I had no idea of what I was looking at for 30 whole minutes until at 6pm the movie restarted from the beginning. My little mind was still blown. To this day. 😮
Watch this as a kid
I first watched this movie when it broadcast on TV, and they *hadn't* dubbed it over that Duke "went into a coma (then recovered by the end)". He canonically died in that broadcast airing of the movie (which really added to the darkness and that added to the whole Lovecraftian feel).
Less of a did you know and 100% more of a recap from someone who couldn't even walk when the movie came out.
what about Deep six's legs?
Joe's never got hurt! There was one scene in the cartoon where Duke was in a coma but no one ever got hurt.
Cobra La was also never brought into the original comic book series despite the deal between Hasbro and Marvel where any action figure created had to be featured in the comic. Larry Hama had stated that it was enough having to include Serpentor and his crazy creation story, but he had to draw the line when it came to Cobra La. As a HUGE fan of the comics, I was very grateful for that decision because I hated the Cobra La stuff.
The only good things about Cobra La were Nemesis Enforcer and Pythona.
I agree! The movie was stupid and should have kept with the comics!
The interesting thing was that there was a UK prequel story to the movie in whhich Pythona gave Dr. Mindbender the idea to create Serpentor to replace Cobra Commander. And yeah the UK stuff isn't quite cannon & not written by Mr. Hama but it is an interesting thought.
Sgt Slaughter was awesome in this movie, I was a kid when this came out on cable, I grabbed a VHS tape and recorded it to keep it forever
Loved this movie as a kid, kinda felt bad for Cobra Commander in this movie.
Got it on dvd and watched it with my kids (13 and 14) and my son loved it.
We also watch the series now on youtube.
8:01 We weren't entitled, participation trophy receiving, weak little brats in the 80s. No trauma here.
The movie rocked for its time
wish they had Firefly more in this not to mention where's copper head and my other favorite wild weasel.
The thing I remember was how the cartoon picked up after the events of GI Joe The Movie where Cobra Commander returns to humanoid form and gets his silver space suit and there was the introduction of the Python Patrol and Tiger Force toy lines.
"COBRA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA, Baby give it up. Give it up, Baby give it up."
Yes the opening scene is awesome. I first saw this on broadcast TV back when Channel 6 in Miami was an independent station. They made a big announcement about the broadcast premiere.
My childhood days
What, no mention of Sgt. Slaughter!?
An itty bitty ditty bag!!!!
AT EASE DISEASE!
slaughter the Sgt's.....
Because everybody knows Sgt. Slaughter. The video is about what we might not know, but Sgt. Slaughter is a legend.
We all go home or nobody goes home.
A childhood favorite of mine
There's got to be some mad lad out there willing to go frame by frame and change that scene to what it should have been.
Many people still dont realize that G I JOE, Transformers and alot of other "cartoons" from the 80s were actually indeed ANIME! No cartoonist colors or animates in such great detail back then or even now like those in Japan or Korea! You get the crappy live action of these ANIME when its totally in control of Americans but you get the fantastic when its half done with ANIME artists!
Falcon- You expect me to walk?
Sgt. Slaughter- No. You can run.
50 percent knowledge the other 50 percent is violence.
I keep saying it. This would make an awesome Real Time strategy game. They have the stories, they have the characters, they have the vehicles. Everything is already designed. All they need to do is make digital versions of it.