History YMMV / GIJoeTheRiseofCobra

* EvilIsSexy:
** The Baroness is a FemmeFatale who wears two {{Spy Catsuit}}s, one of which pays generous attention to her cleavage, and she's of course played by the beautiful Sienna Miller. [[spoiler: She may not count since she's only brainwashed, and has a HeelFaceTurn]].
** Storm Shadow, already played by PrettyBoy Byung-hun Lee, rips his shirt off for his big fight with Snake Eyes and the camera is [[FemaleGaze all too happy to show his physique]].

** Creator/ChristopherEccleston as Destro.

* WTHCastingAgency:
** You'd never imagine Creator/MarlonWayans and specially Creator/JosephGordonLevitt in this movie. Surprisingly, Joseph Gordon-Levitt really pulls it off, and Marlon Wayans... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is, well, Marlon Wayans]], although even he tones down his fundamental Marlon Wayans-ness a bit.
** Creator/ChanningTatum as the leader of the Joes? Seriously?

* EvilIsSexy: [[SpyCatsuit Baroness]].

* HarsherInHindsight: The attacks and destruction in Paris after the real-life terrorist attacks on Paris in 2015 makes watching the ''entire'' movie ''far'' less enjoyable.

** What the HELL happened to [[{{Film/Inception}} Arthur]]?!

** [=McCullen=]'s [[spoiler: horribly burnt head and face that forces him to become Destro? NightmareFuel... But the CGI rendering his new metallic head? Abhorrent SFX failure that [[NightmareRetardant sucks away the proceeding horror]], and looks especially laughable whenever his metallic lips move and when he gets up to try attack Rex in rage and the light reflections look completely off. It's mind-boggling why they couldn't rely on some makeup effects for Destro's final look and thought ''THIS'' video call filter-looking thing was okay to show in theaters]].

** For its wooden and unconvincing acting, being heavily episodic and pretty much a collection of explosive action scenes, this film can be considered the closest to an action BMovie made by Creator/TheCannonGroup in vein of their past works like ''Film/InvasionUSA1985'', ''Film/TheDeltaForce'' (which featured an electronic music score by Music/AlanSilvestri, who scores this movie), and ''Film/AmericanNinja'' in the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]].

** This film can be considered the closest to an action BMovie made by Creator/TheCannonGroup in vein of their past works like ''Film/InvasionUSA1985'', ''Film/TheDeltaForce'' (which featured an electronic music score by Music/AlanSilvestri, who scores this movie), and ''Film/AmericanNinja'' in the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]].

* HamAndCheese
** Christopher Eccleston as Destro.
** And Joseph Gordon-Levitt as [[spoiler:Cobra Commander]]. Both of them know exactly what kind of movie they're in, and that makes their scenes together the most interesting.

** Snake Eyes is a ninja trained in martial arts. Young Snake Eyes was played by Leo Howard. Leo Howard and martial arts? [[Series/KickinIt That sounds familiar...]]

* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Cobra Commander]] does a grand entrance... and is caught and put to jail few seconds later. The whole sequence goes so quickly, you can forgiven for thinking a large chunk of movie was just cut out.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The movie pulls ideas from several different toy lines, comic books, and animated series. Many of the details that fans complain about the movie "changing" are taken right from the source material ... just not an iteration of the source material the complainer is familiar with (e.g., you don't have to like the powered suits, but if you know the ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeSigma6'' line, you know the movie didn't make them up).
** Likewise "International Heroes" was part of the ''Action Force'' theme, and even briefly adopted in the [=DiC=] series. GI Joe also worked for the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations in ''Sigma Six''.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The game wasn't well received.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: While a majority of the special visual effects were well done, a CGI cobra at the beginning of the film sticks out like a sore thumb.

* SpiritualAdaptation: This film can be considered the closest to an action BMovie made by Creator/TheCannonGroup in vein of their past works like ''Film/InvasionUSA1985'', ''Film/TheDeltaForce'' (which featured an electronic music score by Music/AlanSilvestri, who scores this movie) and ''Film/AmericanNinja'' in the 2000s.

* WTHCastingAgency: You'd never imagine Marlon Wayans and specially Joseph Gordon-Levitt in this movie. Surprisingly, Joseph Gordon-Levitt really pulls it off, and Marlon Wayans... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is, well, Marlon Wayans]], although even he tones down his fundamental Marlon Wayans-ness a bit.
** Channing Tatum as the leader of the Joes? Seriously?

* RelationshipWritingFumble: Yeah, Storm Shadow, you're killing the Baroness' husband on "Destro's orders." Sure...
** Doesn't help that they come off of as more of a BattleCouple than Scarlett and Snake-Eyes, the ORIGINAL pair of leading lady and badass ninja.
** The novelization seems to add considerable mutual witty banter and, yes, flirtation and, it also offers HoYay for Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, who seem to be matching OfficialCouple (sort-of) Duke and Ana/The Baroness flashback for flashback, meaningful look for meaningful look. (Bizarrely carries over to the ''Ninja Showdown'' kid's book.) Oddly out-of-place due to the gist of their past relationship being "We really, ''really'' don't like each other."

* SpiritualAdaptation: This film can be considered the closest to an action BMovie made by Creator/TheCannonGroup in the 2000s.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Snake Eyes, as per usual, thanks to being a complete badass who is cooler and more interesting than the rest of the cast combined.

** [[BigBad Cobra Commander]], once known as [[FromNobodyToNightmare Rex Lewis]], was a soldier in the US military who was left to die, and takes the opportunity to go into hiding and perfect the nanite technology. Going undercover as "the Doctor", the Commander fools James [=McCullen=] into being his [[UnwittingPawn pawn]], using the man's resources to secretly build his own organization called Cobra that the Commander uses to overthrow [=McCullen=]. Able to instantly silence any of his captured soldiers and even quickly using his sister Ana as a hostage to enable his escape from the G.I. Joes, the Commander [[PresidentEvil installs Zartan as the President of the United States]] and uses him to eliminate the G.I. Joes and wipe out every country's nuclear weapons, at which point the Commander unveils his powerful KillSat Zeus, with which he hopes to gain ultimate power over the world, and very nearly succeeds. Cobra Commander escapes at the end of the films with many of his resources intact, and showcases a tremendous amount of manipulation and scheming in his quest to bring the entire planet under a Cobra banner.

* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Cobra Commander]] does a grand entrance... and is caught and put to jail few seconds later.

* FashionVictimVillain: [[spoiler:Cobra Commander. After switching to the metal full-head helmet, suddenly his skinniness becomes more apparent and he looks like a bobblehead or lollipop.]] One of the few cases where ShouldersOfDoom might help.

* HilariousInHindsight:

** The scene of Cobra's arctic bass collapsing into the water is pretty weightless and poorly rendered.

* MagnificentBastard: Cobra Commander, once known as Rex Lewis, was a soldier in the US military who was left to die, and takes the opportunity to go into hiding and perfect the nanite technology. Going undercover as "the Doctor", the Commander fools James [=McCullen=] into being his pawn, using the man's resources to secretly build his own organization called Cobra that the Commander uses to overthrow [=McCullen=]. Able to instantly silence any of his captured soldiers and even quickly using his sister Ana as a hostage to enable his escape from the G.I. Joes, the Commander [[Film/GIJoeRetaliation installs Zartan as the President of the United States]] and uses him to eliminate the G.I. Joes and wipe out every country's nuclear weapons, at which point the Commander unveils his powerful KillSat Zeus, with which he hopes to gain ultimate power over the world, and very nearly succeeds. Cobra Commander escapes at the end of the films with many of his resources intact, and showcases a tremendous amount of manipulation and scheming in his quest to bring the entire planet under a Cobra banner.

* SnarkBait: Many of the film's cliches, but when the movie opens with "[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 In the not too distant future...]]", you get an inkling about what you're in for.