G-Force

Plot synopsis:
The film revolves around a special team of trained secret agent animals, equipped with advanced tools that allows the mammalian members to talk to humans. The primary field team consists of star-nosed mole Speckles (cyber intelligence) and Mooch (Reconnaissance). The unit's leader Ben, orders an unauthorised infiltration of the residence of home electronics and appliances magnate, Leonard Saber, the owner of Saberling Industries, who has been under FBI investigation. The team is able to retrieve sensitive information about a sinister scheme that is set to occur in 48 hours. However, when Ben's superior Kip Killian arrives for his evaluation, his astonishment at the team's capabilities and technology is overcome by his indignation at Ben's unauthorized mission and the fact that the downloaded intelligence appears to be useless information about Saber's coffee makers. As a result, the government agent orders the unit shut down, the equipment seized and the animals to be used as experimental subjects to be killed. With the help of their human compatriots, Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, Mooch and Speckles escape with hopes of stopping Saber's scheme, but find themselves in a pet carrying case bound for a pet shop.
Trapped in the store's pet rodent display case, G-Force meets Hurley, a laid-back guinea pig, Bucky, an irascible hamster, and three sycophantic mice. Although Blaster and Juarez manage to get themselves sold to a family with plans to return to extract their comrades, Speckles' own attempt to escape by playing dead ends disastrously when he is thrown into and supposedly crushed in a garbage truck. Meanwhile, Mooch manages to return to Ben to tell him where his mammalian agents are, but Darwin escapes with Hurley before he can arrive to collect them.
While Blaster and Juarez escape their new owners to return to Ben, he and his assistant Marcie discover that the discredited intel has a destructive computer function that apparently hid the scheme. At this time, Darwin and Hurley make their own way to their superior. En route, Darwin sees a Saberling coffee maker and decides to investigate it, but his examination of the machine makes it come alive as a dangerous fighting robot that he and Hurley are able to defeat by making it run right into the path of an oncoming pickup truck. Later Darwin and Hurley transport the wreckage to Ben by a skateboard. However, upon arrival, Ben confesses the shattering information that they are not special genetically enhanced animals as previously told, but ordinary ones Ben took in and trained for the team; Juarez was a delicacy at a roadside tapas stand in Pyrenees, Blaster was found at a hair and cosmetics lab where a hair gel was being tested for allergic reactions, Speckles was found before his family was killed and his home was destroyed to build a golf course, during which he became blind and had to wear special glasses to help him see, and Darwin was adopted from the pet store after his parents abandoned him because he was the runt of the litter. However, Hurley lifts them from their despair by reminding the team of the astounding feats he has seen them do and the fact that they obviously made themselves extraordinary on their own.
Emboldened but with little time to stop the scheme, Ben provides the field team with the means to infiltrate the Saber residence and plant a virus in the computer mainframe. Unfortunately, FBI agents are ordered by Killian to capture the animals dead or alive, forcing the team to elude them with an extended pursuit thanks to a high speed vehicle especially designed for them called the Rapid Deployment Vehicle (dubbed the RDV by Darwin) and Mooch acting as their camera in the air. During the chase, one FBI SUV gets trapped by moving trucks, while another SUV crashes into a RV, and the last one gets caught in the middle of a fireworks display, though none of the agents are harmed. After the team infiltrates Saber's mainframe, they encounter a bomb trap but they manage to avoid it because of their size. Meanwhile, Hurley notices a Saberling microwave oven, which transforms and attacks. In an appliance store, all of the machines also transform into killing machines and begin combining with each other. The microwave tries to kill the 3 guinea pigs but is destroyed by the bomb trap. The team takes on the monster, and the resulting battle separates the group, leaving only Darwin and Mooch to take the mainframe down. At the same time, Leonard Saber is shocked to discover that his appliances have become killing machines, expecting them to simply be able to effectively communicate with each other.
Meanwhile, Killian leads his men to take advantage of this obvious pretext to finally openly move against the industrialist thinking that he was the mastermind and interrogate him in the command truck. Ben and Marcie arrive at the scene and they watch Darwin trying to infiltrate the mainframe and shut it down. When Darwin reaches the mainframe, he finds out that Speckles, who actually faked his death and somehow obtained another pair of glasses after his original one was taken away earlier, is the mastermind of the plan. Speckles explains his masterstroke: to cause a massive planetwide bombardment of space debris pulled from orbit to make the planet surface uninhabitable, admitting that he snuck into Saber's base and planted the control chips into the devices and used Sabersense as a cover for his plan, and that he was the one who sabotaged G-Force's presentation to ensure that they didn't find out about his sinister plot. He also explains that the reason behind his plot is because he wants revenge on the human race for the death of his family. Speckles promptly amalgamates the various appliances in the vicinity into a giant walking robot, which, combined with a localised bombardment of orbital debris, soon overpowers the police force and grabs the command truck, with Marcie, Killian, Saber, and Ben inside. During the fight, Speckles summons one of his robots to kill Darwin (who loses his parachute and the PDA in the process), but Darwin manages to persuade Speckles that his new family is with the rest of the team and Ben, who had taken them all in. Speckles concedes, and realizing that he has gone too far, tries to shut it down, but he has lost control and the machines continue their onslaught. Darwin uses the computer virus on his PDA (which was recovered by Mooch earlier) to take it down, destroying the robot and nearly killing Hurley while the FBI take Saber into custody to presumably find out information from him.
The guinea pigs are personally commended by the FBI Director who also appoints them special agents of the FBI. Furthermore, G-Force is reinstated as a unit of the Bureau and expanded with Hurley, Bucky and the mice inducted as new recruits. Meanwhile, Saber makes the largest product recall in history, Speckles is given the punitive duty of personally removing the malicious chips from all Saber products, which number into the tens of thousands, and Agent Killian is relocated to an FBI base in the South Pole as a punishment for capturing G-Force.

Tags: entertaining

Review:
And though they appeared for a total of a little over few minute, Bucky the hamster (who is a quarter ferret) and the three mice were adorable.I'll recommend this movie to anyone looking for a good laugh on a lazy afternoon.
I thought this film was great,i don't understand why it didn't get a higher score.The storyline was fast paced, the animation and effects superb and the guinea pigs were generally funny.I thought the cast really made the characters come alive,I would definitely recommend this for families and children,the people giving it a bad review are not those whom it was made for.
It is simply just a fun action film for kids, its's not trying to be a tarentino masterpiece, Disney did a great job on making another great flick for the family!
The voice work from everyone was top notch, but if I were to hand it to anyone, it wold be cage for his transformation to the unknown.The animation is well done, the final action sequence does feel like it comes straight out of transformers, but it looks neat.
These are talking guinea pigs after all.The film is entertaining and the kids will most likely enjoy it.
The story is just about adequate, but the writing/dialogue is generally just dull dull dull.There seems to be no intelligence or flair to it at all, leaving children at best just entertained by cuddly animals talking, and at worse adults wondering why they're having to endure such boredom.I've seen a number of 'kids films' at the cinema and this has got to be the only one I've watch feeling so un-entertained by.
'G-Force,' Disney's new animated 3-D movie experience is a wonderful and fun film that kids as well as parents can enjoy.
My wife who is in her 40's loved it and laughed intensely throughout the film, particularly, at Tracey Morgan's guinea pig character 'Blaster'.The story is about a team of specially trained secret agent guinea pigs that take on a mission for the US government.
There used to be a time when the Disney moniker stood for quality, originality, intrigue and fun, sadly, with the help of a tiny group of guinea pigs this quality of leadership has withered away.Competing with the kiddie market with animated / live action films as Warner Bros.
There was a time when Disney's reputation took them far and wide with respectability, with the animated / live action film as Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), for example, there was an era when quality mattered.Kids should find this entertaining, fun even, but this is a film that should be seen on the "Children Television Channel", as this certainly is not one for the older kids, the attention span may just be tested, and older kids just may find this a rather dull affair.
G-Force should be titled C-Forced for "cute forced"—a witless, partially animated adventure about a team of talking guinea pigs working for the FBI to stop a billionaire from ruling the world with Jerry-Bruckheimer-like household appliances, currently patterned after Mr. B's transformers.If the plot doesn't anesthetize you, the wasting of Bill Nighy as the crazed mogul will depress you because he has not one line to capitalize on his considerable sardonic delivery.
And except for a fly buzzing in and out of the 3-D frame, that process doesn't distract from the banality of the film.I suppose a few in the preview audience laughed occasionally, but I was too preoccupied with the feeling that g-forces were strapping me into the seat so I couldn't bolt before the next near-cute animal came onto the scene.At least now I know the difference between a guinea pig, a gerbil, and a g-string, or I think I can identify at least one of those.So it's summer--Kristin Dreyer Kramer reminds me kids need mindless entertainment once in a while in the summer, too.
As such, Yeatman's main contribution remains the directing - efficient, precise, professional.Of course, the great fun are the characters - but, attention: NOT the human ones, which remain simplistic and full of clichés (in a deliberate but sparkless way, attempting to keep the movie at the facile level one supposes it's appropriate for children), but the rodents: credible, amusing and endearing portraits, responsible for the permanent joyous smile (also marked by a few laughs) that follows from start to end this enjoyable new 3D experience..
I took my girlfriend to see this film as she loves guinea pigs and i have to be honest i wasn't expecting much from it.But I couldn't of been more surprised when i actually saw it.
It is, and, if it were not for the insistence on wallowing in long shots of "name" actors, superhero movies could be this way to!It is a little too adult in parts - the female guinea pig's romantic playing of her two male colleagues and some pet shop scenes among others - but this signs the cheque that lesser films like 'Cats vs.Dogs' and 'Snow Dogs' promised, mainly by weaving the fact the animals can talk into a major plot device.Better than both 'Fantastic Four' movies, with a more credible and better rounded villain than most "adult" action movies, this is a winner!.
So i expected a pretty good movie cause it was Disney it was in 3-D But after 10 minutes of a dumb plot this film falls under the bottom of terrible movies I've seen.
After seeing another, excellent, movie, I decided to do a little illicit theatre hopping and moved over to see G-Force.It was worth just what I paid to get in.I would list the plot holes, inanities, and just plain stupid parts, but this review is limited to 1000 words...However, some of the more memorable (sadly): Yes, the funniest scenes are in the trailer.
I accepted to suffer the torture watching G-Force because I was impressed by the animation technique which had been shown on the trailers and because I wanted to see a movie in 3-D.On the special effect field,the movie fulfilled my expectations.However,this is a very bad movie which absolutely lacks of ingenuity,substance or intelligent humor.I guess that G-Force was born after the "creative" mind from a Disney executive who was trying to re-imagine para-military penguins from Madagascar.In order to avoiding the infraction of copyright,this hypothetical fool looked for another animal whose charm and natural tenderness would be funnily incongruous with a heroic and organized behaviour : guinea pigs.After that,this movie was added with a generic soundtrack,a few comedians to take the human roles,famous actors lending their voices in order to have their names on the poster and hiring a legendary special effects supervisor as a director,in order to guarantee the quality of the animation.In other words,another typical strategy from Disney,where the people are experts in selling commercial products but inept at the time of creating interesting stories.The most irritating things from this movie are the absolutely antipathetic characters,the human cast (making Bill Nighy to bring a boring performance is something very difficult!) and the huge number of fails from the screenplay.The only thing which adds a few points to this crappy movie are the amazing special effects.The animation is simply perfect : the integration of the characters to real scenarios surpasses anything I have seen so far (with the possible exception of Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen,which has some similar scenes to this movie,by the way),and the hair simulation is extraordinary.Director Hoyt Yeatman is one of those artisans of the special effects who are legend on the field but unknown to the general spectators.His brilliant work started on the prehistoric era of optical composition as a photography assistant (on movies like E.T.,Blade Runner or The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension),and after that,he evolved as a visual effects supervisor on films like the remakes of The Fly,The Blob and Mighty Joe Young,where he showed his skillful assimilation of the digital tools which on a big way replaced the practices from the "old school".Although he does not appear on the credits of the special effects field from G-Force,it is easy to note that he put some of his hand on them.I have to congratulate the studio Sony Picture Imageworks and Yeatman for the extraordinary work they did on the special effects.However,I think Yeatman should only stick to the special effects,because the direction of G-Force is horrible because of all the continuity problems and the inability for finding a good rhythm and tone.With the exception of the special effects,G-Force is a very crappy movie which does not offer any positive elements.I would not recommend this movie even for the children,because there are hugely superior family action movies (among my favourite ones,I can mention Sky High,The Incredibles and Spy Kids)..
Simple, because the movie was full of fun effects that a kid can love and a predictable spy- thriller script that no kid can understand and every parent knows buy heart.One possible redeeming factor for blasé parents was the disturbing character of a sociopath, selfish hamster, with the voice of Steve Buscemi.
I'll take talking toys, bugs, bears, penguins, fish, you name it -- but an elite force of special unit guinea pigs in a live action setting is not something that screams fun for the whole family.
No doubt that kids will get a kick out of mindless physical humor with chase scenes, explosions and high-tech gadgetry, but considering 2009 was full of terrific animated movies from "Coraline" to "Up" to "Cloudy with a Chance Meatballs," "G-Force" is a complete waste by comparison.A team of genetically enhanced talking guinea pigs works for a secret division of the government.
When their plan to stop a mad man (Bill Nighy) goes sour, they're shut down and the guinea pigs end up at a pet store, where planning their escape and still managing to stop the bad guy will be their toughest challenge yet.Written by The Wibberleys ("National Treasure" co-writers), "G-Force" is another being a hero story only with balls of fur and consequently a lot of "that's because I'm small or furry or an animal" jokes.
As a result, the film just looks worse and they cause themselves problems such as why the guinea pigs are talking CGI creatures but the dogs and squirrels in the movie are ordinary dogs.
That's what the producers were probably banking on most: people would just adore talking hamsters, mice, and guinea pigs.There was some effort put into the production of this movie but in the end that just didn't work out for me.
But I'm not sure that ten-twelve year old kids are interested in a movie about guinea pigs.
However, it is nothing more than a flat kids movie for the little ones who will find the guinea pigs cute..
For me it is a movie 1)with originality (guiny pigs saving the world, excuse me, if looking at this you still go to the theater, means you think like me.
Although, I should say animating rodents to both look like real rodents and also expressive characters is impressive.I can think of lots of kids movies worse than this one.
Good Family Fun. another good jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster.G-Force is a good film for adults and possibly great for kids.Sam Rockwell,Tracy Morgan,Penelope Cruz,Nicolas Cage and Jon Favreau play the voices of the little heroes called G-Force who have to save the world from destruction.basically this is a film kids will love and adults will enjoy because the characters are cute and funny and kids love that while adults prefer more smarter jokes than just funny lines.I Liked The film because it's funny and has some good action and i think this saves the film.It's A Good Film For The Family.I Rate It 7/10Next Comment:This Is It. Fun kids movie that adults may want to bring a book to..
Before you laugh at me for watching this obviously made for children movie, I thought it was somewhat interesting to observe how a Jerry Bruckheimer produced film, his first 3D one at that, would have fared should it have gone up against his long time director Michael Bay in the summer blockbuster stakes.
In my opinion, yes G-Force is way better than Transformers.Perhaps it was somewhat refreshing for me to sit through a G-rated live action film that didn't take itself too seriously, and comes with a very simple, direct plot aimed at kids so that they can enjoy this action-adventure with nary a swear word, revealing clothes, and sequence that serve to confuse by throwing everything on-screen.
Think of it as the animal version of the Impossible Mission Force, where Ben's proudest achievement is to have 3 guinea pigs in Darwin (Sam Rockwell), Blaster (Tracy Morgan) and Juarez (Penelope Cruz) as field operatives, fly Mooch as a surveillance agent, and a mole Speckles (Nicolas Cage) as their systems expert.
Their plan is to dig for hidden secrets of a conglomerate's CEO Leonard Saber (Bill Nighy) whose consumer products seem to have more than meets the eye, but things go awry, and G-Force soon find themselves battling against the Feds who want to shut them down, and fighting against time to stop whatever sinister plans Saber has for the extermination of the world.The novelty of the CG talking animals go beyond just that of the G-Force team, as if to demonstrate the level of complexity achievable by technology in having speaking hamsters, mice and the likes gelled perfectly with their live-action counterparts.
Thankfully this angle didn't get played up too often, as the team does spend some time in the middle act apart, before coming together for a wham-bang finale.I have to admit I was pretty much entertained by G-Force, probably because I had went in with zero expectations other than wondering how it managed to get its voice talents to perform for the film, and even then, I suspect some tinkering had been done because the familiar voices do sound like they've been modified, and it only took the credits list to piece together who did which role.
It's something done for the kids, but if you have one still inside your heart, then I would recommend you give these little animals in G-Force a chance.Oh and one more thing, don't just go out buying guinea pigs as pets just so because you liked how they look in the film.
A good children's movie would be fast moving, with an engrossing story, interesting characters, great animation or effects, and some plot points/one-liners/devices aimed at the parents with "a nudge and a wink".G-Force is fast moving, but the rest of my criteria?
The only ones who discovered the plan are the guinea pigs and they spend the rest of the movie proving their worth vs the human FBI agents and the bad guys.The 'adult' humour was dialed way too low to teen level.
I watched it because I was babysitting, and the kids wanted to watch this movie, they thought it was a lot of fun.G-Force is about a bunch of guinea pigs who are specially trained to stop a billionaire from taking over the World.
It is just a shame that the special effects were dimmed down by all the all too silly scenes.The guinea pigs were very cute and fun, and the movie has a lot of action scenes.
The movie was cute--what else can be said about a team of guinea pigs that try to save the world from domination?
You can tell it wasn't the Pixar people behind this film.I really expected to laugh and enjoy the FX ride, but the action sequences left me bored and I didn't fall in love with the characters.
It is seriously worth viewing at Christmas time with the family as I'm sure the kids will love it and will want the toy guinea pigs that have just come out..
Darwin (voiced by Sam Rockwell) leads a team of highly trained, and apparently "genetically engineered" guinea pigs (unfortunately, I am not kidding) who are trying to become FBI special agents under the guidance of humans Ben (Zach Galifianakis) and Marcie (Kelli Garner).
Yes, I realize I just described the personalities of CGI rodents, but these early moments of the film make any cynically minded film fan wonder why they doubted this insane idea for a movie in the first place.But as the second half begins, with the team stuck in a pet store alongside chubby farting guinea pig Hurley (Jon Favreau) and zany bipolar hamster Bucky (Steve Buscemi), the film comes to a screeching halt.
I think Rockwell and Cruz could have done a bit more, but the almost totally unrecognizable Cage adds yet another character to his bizarre resume.G-Force will not please everyone, but its imaginative attempt at originality makes it a worthwhile film to watch.
G-Force is a movie about an elite squad of CGI guinea pigs (plus a computer nerd mole) who are pitched against tycoon Bill Nighy's nefarious kitchen appliances taking over the world,, and it comes in flat and 3D versions.
There's a lot of action, most of it eye-catching, particularly in 3D (and it's nice to see a film with a fair amount of real-world 3D, not just CGI).Having said that, the CGI critters are the main characters of the movie - the real-life characters are not high profile at all, whereas the voice talent for the hamsters includes Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Steve Buscemi and Nicolas Cage (doing an unrecognisable voice).G-Force is by no means brilliant, but it passes the time amiably enough and the 3D is eye-catching..
It can be good for kids, and the animation is decent, but this is the kind of movie where you see it once, and never want to see it again.
G-force is a good kids movie.
And in that way, the movie didn't surprise me at all.It all starts with a scene where it's fun to see that a guinea-pig can talk.
Yes, you will want to buy a guinea pig/mouse/hamster after watching the movie.