GI Joe: Resolute - a First Look
GI Joe: Resolute's animation style is light years more advanced than what was available during the 1980s cartoon version. GI Joe: Resolute evokes the darker, more realistic Japanese anime style of animation, with more realistic looking character renditions and scenery.
GI Joe: Resolute, which lasts a total for about an hour's run time, views like a typical classic GI Joe episode. COBRA, the international organization of evil doers, is out to take over the world again. GI Joe, the special, elite force of special ops commandos is the only force that can stop COBRA from its evil plan.
The tone of GI Joe: Resolute is somewhat darker and more adult than the typical episode of the 1980s series. The webisodes begins with the death of a well know character. The mayhem and destruction seems edgier and fraught with more potential consequences for death or permanent maiming than the 1980s series.
GI Joe: Resolute, as one might expect, is filled with action. There are commando raids to burn, including one at the edge of space, as well as a martial arts fight to the death between two rival characters, the annihilation of a major city, and gun and missile fire enough to wage a small war. A great deal of high tech toys are on display.
Most of the ironic characters are of the GI Joe series are back. COBRA Commander is there in all of his cackling, insane glory, as are Destro and the Baroness. Duke and Scarlet, among others, appear on the side of good, working out certain personal feelings in the middle of a rather serious fire fight.
GI Joe the live action movie, directed by The Mummy's Stephen Sommers, premiers this August. The film has had a somewhat interesting development history, at first depicting the GI Joe organization as an "international" peace keeping force, before going back to its "greatest American hero" roots due to overwhelming fan pressure. The film is set about ten years in the future to avoid references to contemporary conflicts.
GI Joe: Resolute will air on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network on Sunday, April 26th.
Sources: GI Joe: Resolute, Adult Swim
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Mark R. Whittington is a writer residing in Houston, Texas. He is the author of The Last Moonwalker, Children of Apollo, Dark Sanction, and Nocturne. He has written numerous articles, some for the Washington... View profile
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