G-Force
A team of trained secret agent animals, guinea pigs Darwin, Hurley, Juarez, Blaster, mole Speckles, and fly Mooch takes on a mission for the US government to stop evil Leonard Saber, who plans to destroy the world with household appliances. But the government shuts them down and they are sentenced to a pet shop. Can they escape to defeat the villain and save the world?
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- Cast:
- Sam Rockwell , Jon Favreau , Tracy Morgan , Penélope Cruz , Nicolas Cage , Dee Bradley Baker , Bill Nighy
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So much average
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
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Probably one of the worst animations released in 2009. Just boring, cliché riddled and unoriginal. The animation takes story lines from all action films, mainly Mission: Impossible, and adds nothing new to the mix of already recycled material. What's the worst offense, however, that G-Force commits is the quick cash-and-grab, meaning that parents will most likely take their kids to see this atrocity of a film but get absolutely nothing out of it. Extremely quick to forget the boredom that this rubbish film put me through. I would find it hard to believe that even the youngest of viewers would find this good. Parents beware, if you are taking your kids to see this you may want to stay behind or wait outside the cinema playing on your phone, because that would be way better than suffering through this.
A special team of trained guinea pigs needs to prove themselves to the US government. With human Ben (Zach Galifianakis), the team intends to investigate billionaire Leonard Saber (Bill Nighy) and stop his evil plan to take over the world in 48 hours. Kip Killian (Will Arnett) is the new taskforce director who decides to end the guinea pig program before he is publicly embarrassed. The team escapes with the help of assistant Marcie (Kelli Garner) but they're all put into the pet store. Then the team gets split up. They regroup to take on Saber.It's a fun idea to have these little creatures as a super spy team. It's a mistake to split them up. The best thing for the team is time together to build up chemistry. With all the big name voices and Galifianakis, this should be a lot funnier. However, it is nothing more than a flat kids movie for the little ones who will find the guinea pigs cute.
Take every movie you've ever seen, watched the trailer for, or even just heard of. Take the good ones. The bad ones. The in-between ones. Mush them all together. Add guinea pigs. Wait--make it...guinea pig spies. Oh, and while your at it, throw a couple top 40s songs in to play at inappropriate moments. There! You have just created something similar to the movie G-Force. This movie had me cracking up laughing, but not at the halfhearted fart jokes. I simply could not believe it was possible to shove so many clichés, pointless allusions, and plain old corniness into one movie. I half expected the "bad guy" (who actually calls himself the bad guy, more corniness) to be Darwin's father. We watched this movie out of Redbox, so we only wasted a dollar on it. That's probably the reason that I could take this horrible movie so lightheartedly. I spent most of the first half in disbelief and most of the second half making fairly accurate guesses of what cliché was going to come next. (Here comes the monologue...here comes the Disney moment).I guess Disney thought that they should stick to stories about fuzzy animals based off of action movies after their success with Bolt. But what really made Bolt, or a lot of the older Disney movies, or the new Pixar movies, successful is that they have heart. G-Force doesn't, just a couple of cute guinea pigs and some random moments that were so stupid they were funny. And that's not enough to save a movie.
A fun movie for kids, not much adult appeal here. The comedy is childish, the storyline is simple and the effects are neat. Good kids movie though. I think it lost a lot with the "plot twist" but when the plot is so simple to begin with, a lot isn't much. The voice talents were good and Tracy Morgan has a voice that is both memorable and funny. Not worth spending a lot of money on but entertaining for kids if you've already seen Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for the 10th time. If it wasn't for effects or the soundtrack I might have fallen asleep. Watching the kids being entertained by the movie was somewhat of a distraction.