Movie:G-Force

G-Force

Starring: Bill Nighy, Zack Galifianikis, Will Arnett, and the voices of Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, Jon Favreau and Steve Buscemi

Director: Hoyt Yeatman

Genre: Fantasy

Talking furballs and "weaponised appliances" make this a fun outing for the kids, but it offers nothing really new or edgy enough to keep their accompanying adults occupied.

Release Date: 17-Sep-2009

URL: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/gforce/

Language: English

Distributor: Buena Vista International

Synopsis:

A top-secret menagerie of intelligent animals - mostly guinea pigs - trained to be spies attempt to bring down a crooked corporate type, but have to contend with their human comrades in the intelligence community too.

My Comment/Review(s):

Starring: Bill Nighy, Zack Galifianikis, Will Arnett, and the voices of Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, Jon Favreau and Steve Buscemi

Mission: Impossible meets Alvin and the Chipmunks in this passably entertaining piece of fluff that doesn't exactly break new ground in the CGI-furball sub-genre.

TINY TORPEDOES: 'And this scene was inspired by our favourite 007 flick, Thunderfurball.'

The title refers to a group of highly trained intelligence operatives, only they're a bunch of critters, not people: three guinea pigs, a mole, a fly and an army of trained cockroaches. No kidding.

Their funding is under review by the higher-ups (what's new) so G-Force needs to make one big case before they get disbanded and sent back to the pet store ... or sewer, in the case of some.

The target: billionaire industrialist Leonard Saber (Nighy), who is up to some grand sinister scheme that could lead to global extermination.

Something goes wrong, though, and G-Force finds itself disbanded and our guinea-pig heroes – Darwin (Rockwell), Juarez (Cruz), Blaster (Morgan) and their mole pal Speckles (Cage) – end up in a pet store. With time running out, G-Force needs to escape, reunite with their human handler, and stop Saber.

WHAT THE: 'I fell asleep for a minute and some @#$% glued a Pokemon critter on the end of my snout.'

There's not much that's exceptional about the movie, even with the 3D, and it can only be described as mildly engaging for grownups.

Kids may find the sight gags and G-gas jokes a riot, but this is one movie that really made me feel like some kind of curmudgeonly old coot, as I was growing increasingly impatient for the flick to be over and done with itself.

Still, any movie with the line "Yippee-ki-yay, coffeemaker!" in it isn't all hum-drum all the time.

Surfing: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/gforce/

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