There are obviously some producers out there that weren’t even ALIVE when the original “acton” figures were first released back in the 60′s!
(Note the absence of the “Kung fu grip” in any of these shots…lol)

Heck, the Sears catalog even listed them as “dolls” fer cripes sake!

With the exception of the fairly cool “Frogman” G.I. Joe, none of the originals wore anything remotely resembeling these neuvo “X-men” getups.

Most confusing, I must say…

Oh wait! There was a cartoon series?
My bad. I must have been outside chucking my G.I. Joe doll off of the garge roof with a handkerchief as a parachute…

As far as Monsters versus Aliens, Been there done that!

I have Inlaws.

you’re hitting my thoughts exactly about the MvA posters.

The posters they aim to be inspired by were deliberately over the top and sensational. These look like they were slapped together by someone who’s just been introduced to Photoshop.

And to take a tangent off of what green said, I don’t think it’s because it’s marketing towards kids, it’s just rather amateurish stuff. Of course, I’m one of those guys who’s never happy with his own art unless it’s something I can be proud of and can defend. I hate mediocrity, even in poster design.

Personally, I think they should have done without using stills of the characters as presented in the film entirely, and instead used stylized and abstracted versions of the characters much in the same way the credit sequence of the Incredibles did, which was inspired by the same time period as this film seems to be.

Not to my knowledge.
And it’s a little late for a recast, isn’t it?

And who would they recast him with?
David Tennant?

*giggles*

The cast is massive and is the one thing going for it I think – pending this trailer not being horrid, I’ll definitely be seeing it on the big screen.

Speaking of all out spoof…I laughed my arse off at Walk Hard especially the extended director’s cut…I don’t know if what they were doing in that just appealed to my sense of humour but I laughed often and hard( my wife too) especially the song “Let’s Duet”

a little off topic but a great spoof especially considering some of the tripe that has been offered the last few years..

Damn matches!!

*drops lots of matches*

Have fun and get back to me later.

Vehicles … action … MILITARY stuff … yeah, that could help.
Doesn’t change the fact that I don’t GET the whole G.I. Joe “thing” at all, but if they desperately want to do a movie about cheesy patriotic action figures … they should at least resemble them.
And thus far … they don’t.

@Joshi

The actors are ashamed to be in the flick, that’s all.

@greenknight

I am all for this movie; the trailer was more than enjoyable, but the need to tend more to the “hip” side instead of doing a complete 50s schlock-alien-movie-spoof WILL take away a bit of the punch in the end.

Not that it matters though. I’m not even sure if I WANT an all out spoof.