MARLON WAYANS IS A SMART ASS.

I can't believe you'd single out Wayans as a highlight of "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra". As far as I'm concerned, he was definitely part of the problem. All he brought was lame stereotypical black caricature schtick and embarrassingly awkward and wooden flirting with the Rachel Nichols character. She'll be missed from the sequel as eye candy, but their 'acting' was just as much of a detriment to the first movie as Channing Tatum.

I think you're stretching the definition of "stereotypical black caricature." Initially, you think he's the wisecracking sidekick, but he's buff and shows he can take care of himself, and then he gets the girl. The WHITE girl. I think they did an ok job busting what looked like a standard-issue secondary minority character in that first film.

As for this movie... whatever. Hollywood pushes so many genres past their natural breaking point these days that there's no reason to parody them, since they have built-in post-modernist concepts and self-referential gags and ideas.

 Because of movies like Date Movie, Epic Movie etc, I have no reason to be interested in this movie.

Yeah, I never understood why Wayans got crap for GI Joe.  I didn't think he recalled any awful caricatures with his performance and was one of the few performances in the film I enjoyed.  His was a performance that KNEW it was in a GI Joe movie.

I like him almost despite myself. Even when he's in crap there's this weird glimmer in his eyes like he knows what's happening. And yeah, he was incredibly more appealing in GI JOE than Charnum Tanning.

Still want him as Richard Pryor, dammit.