For the July 4th Holiday, I did the most patriotic thing I could think of that didn’t involve actually going to the massive fireworks show on the waterfront. I watched GI Joe: The Movie. It is, without a doubt, the Citizen Kane of Animated Movies Based On A Toy Property In Which The Safety Of The World Is Threatened By A 40,000 Years-Dormant Race Of Snake People.

The best part of the DVD for the movie is the complete inclusion of all the original Public Service Announcements. It’s creepy, how the team always happens to be around when kids are about to do Stupid Shit. One could almost come to the conclusion that they’re hanging out at schoolyards in a black van when not fighting COBRA.

(Nerd moment – the Denizens of Cobra-La seem to be the inspiration for the Yuuzhan Vong that populated the recent New Jedi Order series of Star Wars books. They are purely biological when it comes to their technology and view inorganic works as “heresy.” Serpentor uses the snakes on his shoulder in the exact same manner as they do their amphistaffs. Don’t even get me started on the animals being used as ships and giant destructive worms, which was what jogged my attention.)