4/30/2023 0 Comments G force movie![]() ![]() “G-Force” is rated PG (Parental Guidance suggested). Or maybe what this film proves is that you can do both. That is, you can build something that will threaten civilization as we know it, or you can make a 3-D action movie about guinea pigs. Maybe it’s a parable about the power of technology, which as we all know can be harnessed for good or for evil. It can’t hurt.īut perhaps getting back to that final showdown between the pets and the raging appliances there is a deeper message in this film. “G-Force,” directed by Hoyt Yeatman, lives up to its promise to provide nearly an hour and a half of semicrude jokes and big effects, pausing for an obligatory scene of heartfelt lesson learning, in which the guinea pigs are encouraged to believe in themselves. ![]() I mean simple as a visual conceit, since a great deal of effort and ingenuity must have been expended in putting this amusing little sequence together.Īnd far be it from me to suggest that some of that work, and the money behind it, might have been spent on a better script, or a different movie. One of the best is a fairly simple gag in which two guinea pigs go rocketing down a suburban street in an old tire. ![]() The 3-D application (available in some theaters) has the odd effect of making the animated critters look warmer and more real than the actual people, and it must be said that some of the action sequences are impressively executed and edited. Other animals include a dumb, neurotic guinea pig (Jon Favreau) and a clever, neurotic hamster (Steve Buscemi). The animals are trying to stop a diabolical scheme involving a consumer-electronics mogul (Bill Nighy) while being pursued by F.B.I. The other three are guinea pigs, and this foursome is part of an off-the-books experiment run by a renegade government nerd played by Zach Galifianakis. Cruz are joined by Tracy Morgan and Nicolas Cage, his voice almost unrecognizable, playing a mole named Speckles. That seems to be the thinking again, maybe not the right word behind “G-Force,” which manages to be fairly entertaining in that exhausting, rackety, late-summer-kiddie-movie way. So if you make a movie that has both robots and rodents, plus a bunch of swaggering catch phrases, a couple of flatulence jokes and a bunch of human actors hopping around pretending to interact with the computer-generated rodents well, the pitch makes itself, doesn’t it? They also like furry little rodents who speak in the voices of Sam Rockwell and Penélope Cruz (especially all those 10-year-olds who dug “Choke” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”). Kids like big, noisy, destructive metal robots. The thundering, clanking climax, in which blenders, coffee makers and other appliances turn angry and amalgamate into robotic, apocalyptic threats to civilization as we know it, almost seems like a critique of “Transformers.” Or maybe “critique” is the wrong word. “G-Force,” as loud and enervating as the words “A Jerry Bruckheimer Production” might lead you to expect, can hardly be accused of modesty, but on the other hand no film full of talking guinea pigs would be so rash as to attempt the kind of lumbering gravitas that Michael Bay has seen fit to bestow on a bunch of toys. “G-Force” perhaps the most expensive 3-D house-pet action movie ever made and, I’m willing to concede, probably one of the best is about an hour shorter than “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” half as pretentious and twice as witty. ![]()
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