G-Force (2009)

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is the most enticing film I have ever watched. A true master piece displaying the true artistic integrity of film. The underlying themes of a monotheistic society exploring the themes of Christianity and the teachings of the lord. A true masterpiece that really is a work of art and one of the most fabulous film I have ever witnessed. Nicholas Cage has a Masterful performance as Speckles and should have won best supporting actor. This film is ground breaking in the way of unconventional story telling. I love this movie, it cured my depression. Thank you Hoyt Yeatman, beautiful film, 10/10

I'm purely reviewing the film because this needs to be stated and completely understood. I don't care that the animals involved are mostly animated, but it is absolutely horrifying for me, as an experienced guinea-pig owner, to witness such lifelike cavies being treated as they were from the pet store scenes onwards, and I've now had to stop the film just after the little girl dressing up the (LONE) female she bought, because I'm sickened and upset by it. I had put off until tonight to watch it, just because I wanted to watch something different and give it a go (and Disney films are amongst my favourite, along with other animated films which feature animals, so don't assume I'm not familiar with such works). I can look past the 'hamster X ferret' thing, because it's just something light-hearted and funny, but in no way was it necessary to display the guinea-pigs in a TANK, WITH the hamster (the species' should not mix as their diets are very different), and then show a guinea-pig using a large wheel which they should never use in real life because their spines DO NOT curve inwards like a hamster or rat's as efficiently to allow them to run in a wheel. I was disgusted by the 'scruffy' guinea-pig being thrown across the pet store, intended to be eaten by the snake - do the film-makers have ANY idea how much of a reality that is for some guinea-pigs, that pet stores sell a lot of guinea-pigs unknowingly to sick-minded snake owners who insist of feeding their snakes live mammals?! It's completely barbaric that scene! Nevermind the fact that the little girl chose the sow guinea- pig to dress her up, put make-up on her and treat her like a doll!Like I said, I stopped it there and I no longer wish to watch any more of it. I'm only angry about this because it wasn't a cartoon, so it doesn't assume any sense of it being real. It was depicting reality and trying to get it accurately enough with the design of the animated animals being so fantastic - sadly, that's the only positive I can give this film.The story itself, however, I was utterly bored with anyway.

Seeing a low rating, expecting a clichéd trash and predictable animation, I must admit, out of all major animation titles since 2000, this piece of art deserves more than just a mere movie. It deserves a franchise.I don't know what people dislike. Perhaps I haven't watched enough spy- fi, Missions Impossible or whatever. But for cartoon, I think this was enough detail to be both stylish and not to the level of utter redundancy of Spy Kids.The animation, the soundtrack(huge kudos for O Fortuna), the humor(some lines are just quote-able)... but most importantly - the action. I thought Madagascar 3's action is the top of the chart. It still may be, but out of all the movies, this should be 2nd or 3rd(for me).Sure, it has a lot of cliché and convenience. It has a lousy plot and ending, but of all the definitions of happy - it's one thing when the ending makes you want it NOT to be happy. It's totally the opposite when you want it to be exactly like that.It may not have enough to be among the top ranked media, the 9\10. But it's damn worth an 8. So sad when such masterpieces dust in history, while sub-par moneymakers get their advertisement paid off.

Maybe it's because I'm male and still connected with the child inside, I don't know, but I just like movies made for children. There's something about a simple plot, uncomplicated characters and a happy ending that just appeals to me for some reason. But I digress; we're here to talk about a bunch of CGI rodents.A crack team of specially trained guinea pigs, Darwin, Juarez and Blaster, along with their tech guy, a mole called Speckles are on a mission. They have to infiltrate the home of electronics magnate Leonard Saber and steal secret files from his computer. The files reveal that there is a real threat to national security and the clock is ticking. When they go to show the information to the FBI, things go wrong and it all culminates in the withdrawal of funding for the program. This leaves the head of the program, Ben, a human, trying to persuade the FBI about the treat as the animals escape. They make it to a pet shop where they meet another guinea pig called Hurley and a hamster with an attitude called Bucky. Can the animals escape capture and make it back to Ben in time to save the day? Well, you guessed it; I'm not going to tell you right now.Quite a well made film with some nice CGI creatures. I find that giving human attributes to animals never really works, but it's something Disney has been persisting with for many years. Honourable mentions to the voice talents of Sam Rockwell as Darwin, Jon Favreau as Hurley, Nicolas Cage as Speckles, Penélope Cruz as Juarez, Steve Buscemi as Bucky and Tracy Morgan as Blaster. And the humans, Bill Nighy as Leonard Slater, Will Arnett as Kip Killian, Zach Galifianakis as Ben and Kelli Garner as Marcie.There were one or two good jokes, but not a great deal to make the adult audience laugh. I thought the best scenes were in the pet shop. It's one of those kind of OK films that you could quite happily have on in the background to keep the kids entertained, but not one I'd go out of my way to see again. Over all, not really recommended, but maybe a bargain bin DVD purchase to entertain the youngsters.My score: 5.3/10