G.I. Joe: The Movie

G.I. Joe: The Movie
North American poster
Directed by	Don Jurwich[1]
Written by	Buzz Dixon (uncredited)[2] Ron Friedman
Based on	G.I. Joe by Hasbro
Produced by	Joe Bacal Tom Griffin
Starring	Don Johnson Burgess Meredith Sgt. Slaughter Kene Holliday
Cinematography	Masatoshi Fukui
Edited by	David Hankins
Music by	Robert J. Walsh Jon Douglas
Production companies	Hasbro Sunbow Productions Marvel Productions Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
Distributed by	Celebrity Home Entertainment
Release date	April 20, 1987 (1987-04-20) (United States)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

G.I. Joe: The Movie (also known as Action Force: The Movie in the UK) is a 1987 American direct-to-video animated military science fiction action film produced as a sequel to the 1983 animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, based on the original Hasbro toyline.^[3] It was produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions and was animated in Japan by Toei Animation Co., Ltd.

Created at the height of the G.I. Joe craze in the 1980s, G.I. Joe: The Movie was intended as a theatrical release to be closely followed by The Transformers: The Movie. However, the G.I. Joe film encountered unexpected production delays which allowed the Transformers feature to be released first. Due to the poor box office performances of The Transformers: The Movie and My Little Pony: The Movie, G.I. Joe: The Movie was instead released direct-to-video as well as aired on television in syndication, first in feature-length format^{[citation needed]} and later split into a five-part miniseries format as part of the series' syndication package. It was followed by the 1989 animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (considered a separate series from the 1983 animated series of the same name).