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G-Force (Single Disc Widescreen)

5 star:		(36)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

Ben (Zach Galifianakis) has spent his life working with rodents. And it's paid off. This FBI scientist has figure out a way to communicate with them and train them to go on covert missions. But his funding is about to be taken away. As a last second hail Mary, he sends out his crack team, consisting of a fly, three guinea pigs, and a mole, to infiltrate a house and get a file off a computer.

The mission is a big success, or so it appears. The next day, at the review, things go horribly wrong and the project is shut down. The rodents manage to escape to a pet store, but the FBI wants them to keep the entire project completely secret. Can the rodents escape and foil the plot they've uncovered? Or will the FBI track them down first?

I talked into seeing this movie by my roommate. The previews just never convinced me it would be great. And I was right.

Now don't get me wrong. There were some genuine laughs in the film. The mice we meet in the pet store stole the show, for example. I couldn't stop laughing at them. The effects were very well done, too. But the majority of the movie wasn't that great.

The plot was full of cliches from start to finish. That's not necessarily a deal killer for me, but the rest of the movie has to be good enough to make up for it, and it wasn't.

One of the big problems was that the movie just didn't feel like it was going anywhere. There were lots of jokes and pop cultural references, and I felt like they were designed to hide the fact that the plot was weak from us. Even the characters were flat and dull. And I really feel sorry for the humans in the movie who were little more than cardboard characters. Even the dialogue the characters had was so trite it was cringe worthy.

If you can see this movie for free, you'll find a few good laughs. But it isn't worth paying any money for.

This was a poor attempt to sell a movie to kids with the technique of animal animation. The rodents were one-dimentional, unemotional, and failed to establish their own identity. Animals sell, and that is what the producer is counting on.

The plot was weak and lack any credibility. This was just another "animals being chased by the bad guys out to destroy the world" movie. Haven't there been enough of them made so far? Why another one? The plot lacked a single ounce of creativity.

The graphics were terrible, and void of modern technological advances. The movie relied on hyped up music and singing animals to provide any semblance of entertainment value. Weak!

Finally the humor was terrible. The "jokes" were the type your 80 year old dad told 60 years ago. A little originality would have been nice.

I hate to give a poor review to a kid's movie, but this one was bad. Even the kids I watched the movie with were bored.

Save your money, avoid this movie.

I'm an adult and I loved this movie ! It's pure entertainment. I've seen it 3 times now.

Some of the reviewers here on Amazon have given this movie low ratings. I'm baffled about this because this movie is very entertaining. The plot is clever and unexpected. The ending is a surprise.

I recommend this movie to anybody that wants to watch something that is truly entertaining.

I would strongly recommend that you rent this film and view it BEFORE you decide to buy it. Most viewers, young or old, are unlikely to want to watch it twice.

The animation of this little film is first-rate. What it lacks is a good script with characters who have some traits we can care about one way or the other. In only two brief passages, both near the ending, did this movie come to life.

OVER THE HEDGE, KUNG FU PANDA, ICE AGE, MADAGASCAR, its sequel, MADAGASCAR--ESCAPE 2 AFRICA, and especially HAPPY FEET are examples of films with talking animals that do hold the interest of people of all ages and DO make us care what is happening.

Really, really funny! The basic premise is funny enough, but what they do with it is really grand. G-Force is a team of special agents consisting of three guinea pigs and a mole. Make that four guinea pigs, as they pick one up in a pet store along the way.

Ben and Marcy are the humans who trained them, and apparently developed their highly specialized equipment, but the story really belongs to Darwin, Blaster, Juarez and Speckles, and their tag-along Hurley. The action is terribly fast-paced, sometimes too much so for me, and amazingly inventive.

Saber (Bill Nighy) is the head of a multinational appliance company that has imbedded communication chips into every one of its appliances, and plans to turn them all into a global spy ring in an operation with a code name I can't remember.

This is a totally high-tech movie, with lots of 3-D displays and crawling around inside sophisticated hardware, and a good bit of computer jargon I only partly understood, but the general point is that the real computer nerd is Speckles. Remember, he's a mole. Make of that what you will.

There are also a few FBI agents who are trying to shut down the G-Force, mostly because they don't believe the project has justified its budget. And there's a great reconnaissance fly, which gives Ben a chance to inquire if the fly is OK, and when he gets an affirmative answer, says, "I don't like it when my fly is down."

Yes, it's that kind of humor, including some rather remarkable fart jokes. Also, when Juarez (a female) is bought for a silly little girl's pet, and she's all decked out like a Barbie doll, make note of how she describes herself when looking in a mirror. You may have to watch it more than once to catch all the great puns and sly references.

Good fun for grownups and older children, but perhaps a little confusing for rather little kids. I'd say 10 or up would love it.

I enjoyed this movie. action: yes, animation: very good, great for the kiddo. The story like has a loveable scientist working with animals. He tells them how special they are and how they were made for the job they were doing.

Well, on the positive side this movie was clean without too much crude humor. Of course it had the gas passing humor that you find in most films of this genre. Negatively speaking this has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that I have ever seen. It just was lacking something. I never really cared if the rodents suceeded in their mission or not.

The animation (especially the hamster's fur) is well done, but the story is flat and cliche. If they ever make a sequel they need to improve the story.

This movie was, well, ok. It was about 3 guinea pigs who work as spys kind of. there's this project to "change the world" or something with these appliances and they're trying to stop it. meanwhile they meet a new guinea pig who joins the group and one of the other agents gets taken away from them and then tries to destoy thr humans. but then everything works out and no one is hurt. so, i would reccomend other movies, but it was ok.

Bought this for my grandson. He loves it, plays it 2-3 times a day when he stays with us. Not exactly my first choice of movies, but then I'm not a kid.