G-Force

**G-Force** is a 2009 American film directed by Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr.. The film was released on July 24, 2009.

## Plot

The film revolves around a special team of trained animals. The primary field team consists of three guinea pigs: Darwin, Blaster, and Juarez, as well as a mole, Speckles and a fly named Mooch. The unit’s leader Ben orders an unauthorized infiltration of the residence of home electronics and appliances magnate, Leonard Saber. Saber's appliances all have control chips inside them that will activate a function called Sabersense, allowing electronic communication. The team retrieves sensitive information about a scheme called Clusterstorm, which will occur in 48 hours.

However, when Ben's superior, Kip Killian, arrives for his evaluation, he is angry at Ben for performing an unauthorised mission. The government agent orders the unit shut down. With the help of the humans, Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, Mooch, and Speckles escape, but find themselves in a case bound for a pet shop. Ben and his assistant, Marcie, send a trained cockroach named Harry to infiltrate their hideout, which is now guarded by FBI agents, and recover Darwin's Personal Digital Assistant, which contained the information acquired from Saber's computer.

Trapped in the store's pet rodent display case, G-Force meet Hurley, a guinea pig, Bucky, a hamster, and three mice. Although Blaster and Juarez manage to get themselves sold to a family with plans to return to extract their comrades, Speckles is thrown and seemingly 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 Marcie discover that the intel in the PDA has a computer virus that 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 it turns into a violent robot, which he and Hurley defeat. After examining the wreckage, they discover that Sabersense and Clusterstorm are connected and that the chips found inside the appliances actually transformed them into killer robots.

Once they all return and inform Ben of Speckles’ apparent demise, Ben eventually confesses that they are not special genetically enhanced animals as previously told, but ordinary ones Ben took in and trained for the team. However, Hurley lifts them from their despair by reminding the team of the astounding feats that he has seen them do. He also suggests using the virus in the PDA to take down Saber's computer mainframe.

Emboldened, Ben provides the field team with the means to infiltrate the Saber residence and plant the virus in the mainframe. Unfortunately, FBI agents are ordered by Killian to capture the animals dead or alive.

After the team infiltrates Saber's mainframe, they encounter a bomb trap, but avoid it because of their size. In an appliance store, all of the machines also transform into killing machines; one of which tries to kill the 3 guinea pigs after trapping Hurley inside. The team fight the monster until it is destroyed by the bomb trap, and the resulting battle separates the group, leaving only Darwin and Mooch to take the mainframe down.

Darwin finds Speckles at the mainframe, who reveals he is the mastermind, tricking Saber into planting the control chips to repurpose Clusterstorm into causing a massive planet-wide bombardment of space debris to make Earth's surface uninhabitable and reveals that he was the one who sabotaged G-Force's presentation to ensure that they did not find out about his plot. He explains his motive is to exact 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 grabs the command truck with Ben, Marcie, Killian, and Saber inside. During the fight, Darwin manages to persuade Speckles by saying that G-Force is his family now, one he was close to destroying like what had happened to his first family long ago because Ben was the only human who took him in when they had nobody else. Realizing Darwin is right, Speckles tries to shut down the robot, but he cannot control them anymore. Darwin used the virus on the PDA to take it down, destroying the robot and nearly killing Hurley while the FBI take Saber into custody.

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 was forced by the FBI & the government, to make the largest consumer product recall in history, where Speckles is given the duty of removing the malicious chips from all Saber appliances, which number into the tens of thousands, before re-joining the team, and Agent Killian is relocated to an FBI base in the South Pole as punishment for trying to arrest G-Force.

## Cast and Characters

* Sam Rockwell as Darwin
* Tracy Morgan as Blaster
* Penélope Cruz as Juarez
* Jon Favreau as Hurley
* Nicolas Cage as Speckles
* Steve Buscemi as Bucky
* Dee Bradley Baker as Mooch
* Zach Galifianakis as Ben Kendell
* Bill Nighy as Leonard Saber
* Will Arnett as Agent Kip Killian
* Kelli Garner as Marcie
* Tyler Patrick Jones as Connor
* Piper Mackenzie Harris as Penny Goodman
* Jack Conley as Special Agent David Trygstad
* Niecy Nash as Rosalita
* Justin Mentell as Terrell
* Gabriel Casseus as Special Agent Carter
* Loudon Wainwright III as Grandpa
* Chris Ellis as FBI Director

## Music

G-Force: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film's soundtrack album by Various artists and was released on May 1, 2009 by Walt Disney Records.

Trevor Rabin scored the music for the film and its soundtrack. The soundtrack also contains "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow" performed by The Black Eyed Peas, "Just Dance" performed by Lady Gaga and Colby O'Donis, "Jump" performed by Flo Rida and Nelly Furtado, "Don't Cha" performed by The Pussycat Dolls and Busta Rhymes, "Mexicano" performed by Tremander, "Ready to Rock" performed by Steve Rushton, "How Do You Sleep?" performed by Jesse McCartney and Ludacris, "Falling Down" performed by Space Cowboy and "O Fortuna" performed by London Symphony Orchestra & Richard Hickox.

1. "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas
2. "Boom Boom Pow" by The Black Eyed Peas
3. "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga and Colby O'Donis
4. "Jump" by Flo Rida and Nelly Furtado
5. "Don't Cha" by The Pussycat Dolls and Busta Rhymes
6. "Mexicano" by Tremander
7. "Ready to Rock" by Steve Rushton
8. "How Do You Sleep?" by Jesse McCartney and Ludacris
9. "Falling Down" by Space Cowboy
10. "O Fortuna" by London Symphony Orchestra & Richard Hickox

## Production

### Development

On 14 October 2008, Hoyt Yeatman was set to direct G-Force. Cormac and Marianne Wibberley wrote the script for the film. Jerry Bruckheimer produced the film with the budget of $150 million for release in 2009. On 17 October, it was announced that Sam Rockwell, Tracy Morgan, Penélope Cruz, Nicolas Cage, Jon Favreau, Steve Buscemi, Zach Galifianakis, Bill Nighy, Kelli Garner, Will Arnett, Gabriel Casseus and Jack Conley joined the film. Dee Bradley Baker joined the cast on 12 November to play Mooch, a housefly. On 18 November, it was announced that Trevor Rabin would compose the music for the film. On 23 November, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film. Development of the film was completed in Los Angeles, California. Production then moved to Santa Clarita, California for the final phases of animation and production in order to maximize tax credits offered to foreign film projects in America.

### Filming

G-Force was filmed at 992 S Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA, Culver Studios – 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA, Los Angeles, California, USA and Santa Clarita, California, USA in 2009.

## Release

### Theatrical

G-Force was theatrically released on July 24, 2009 by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

### Home Media

G-Force was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 15, 2009 by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

## Reception

### Critical Response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 22% based on 126 reviews, with an average rating of 4.43 out of 10. The website's critics consensus reads: "G-Force features manic action, but fails to come up with interesting characters or an inspired plot." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 stars out of four and called it "a pleasant, inoffensive 3-D animated farce".

### Box Office

G-Force grossed $119,436,770 in North America and $173,381,071 internationally for a worldwide total of $292,810,686, against a budget of $150 million.

#### North America

In its opening weekend, the film earned $31.7 million, ranking at No. 1, and replacing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The film declined −44.8% on its second week behind Funny People and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

## Merchandise

### Video Game

See Also: G-Force (Video Game)

The video game based on the film was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS and Microsoft Windows on July 21, 2009. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions come with 3-D glasses.

## Awards and Nominations

 Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture