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: FantasyTalking 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.
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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.
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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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