Liked it enough that I'll watch the sequal

As a kid I was a huge fan of Action Man/Action Force (the British version of GI Joe), collecting the figures, reading the excellent cartoon strip in The Battle comic, even getting the novels featuring Action Man's World War 2 adventures. I wasn't too fond of when it got taken over by an American company and Baron Ironblood and the Red Shadows became Cobra whilst all the existing Action Force characters were replaced with GI Joe(and to judge by The Battle's letters page I wasn't the only one). I think it sums it up the difference between the 2 when you compare the villains. According to his official history Baron Ironblood was the disgraced son of a Swiss diplomat who fled Britain after being court-martialed from The Parachute Regiment, becoming a mercenary in Africa and later leader of his own private terrorist army. His family motto (found inscribed on numerous rockets which fell on American positions towards the end of the Vietnam War) was 'Singo Ferris', literally 'Our blood is of iron'.
And Cobra Commander? He was a used car salesman who was bitter that his business failed.
So going into the film I wasn't too hopeful but it was actually pretty good. The Paris chase and destruction of the Eiffel Tower was magnificent although it did remind me rather of Team America World Police. The raid on The Pit was also exciting and all the stuff with Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow was terrific. I predicted going in that all the male characters would dress like normal soldiers whilst the female would dress like porn stars with a militaristic slant and I wasn't far wrong. Just like Megan Fox in Transformers the makers know the value of a little eye candy and both The Baroness and Scarlet are breathtakingly sexy, the sight of them fighting in their catsuits must have driven fetishists wild with lust. Someone should really count up the number of times the storyline contrives to play up the 'jiggle factor'(and I'm sure they have).
Surprisingly violent, especially the scene where Cover Girl get's so brutally and arbitarily killed off in true slasher pic buxom bimbo style, that really shocked me (although noticeably there's no blood involved). Also is it just me or does Ripcord's plane look the spitting image of the Firefox?
As for the bad I didn't like the way The Baroness was so easily redeemed, that just seemed way too convenient. Ripcord's humour just didn't work and grated after a while. Cobra Commander's/Destro's backstory was uninvolving and the way they have the final showdown defies all military logic AND the laws of physics in several different ways.
So all told I did enjoy it and might even go to see the sequal at the cinema.