Since I’m more of the “G.I. Joe” guy around here, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that there haven’t been any reviews or input on G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Why would anyone else but me subject themselves to eyeball torture if they didn’t have to? Personally, I put it off for as long as I could, but this weekend I finally decided that my duty outweighed any kind of pain I’d suffer from having to watch this thing. By the time the credits finally rolled I was surprised to find that I kind of liked it.

Spoilers after the jump!

Okay, before you start unleashing your nerd rage I do have to say that almost all the character development and most of the plot was garbage. I couldn’t swallow the retarded concept that Duke, Baroness, Cobra Commander were all connected so closely, but on the other hand I always thought it was just as dumb that Cobra Commander had been a used car salesmen that had a brother that killed the parents of Snake Eyes in a car accident. Likewise, the idiotic characterization of Scarlett as a smart girl that can’t love because it’s not logical nearly made me vomit my Junior Mints, but really put me over the edge was the needless budding relationship with Ripcord. And making the Baroness the least bit good was a huge mistake and again, completely needless.

Despite all these ridiculous flaws, the was a lot of fun to be had. I enjoyed nearly all the action sequences, except–like almost everyone else–I thought the Accelerator suits were dumb. At least they were only in one portion of the flick. And despite the fact that I couldn’t stand the mouth on the Snake Eyes costume, almost every second he was on screen was gold.

The way a bad movie becomes a “good” bad movie is that it has to be either fun enough in its badness or the “good parts” simply have to outweigh the “bad parts”. The good outweighed the bad enough for me to find it enjoyable, but I don’t know about anyone else.

Now of course, I’d like to hear what you thought in the comments. Are you all lockstep in your hatred in Rise of Cobra or did you find it entertaining, or dare I say, that some of you might have actually liked it?