G-Force – Review

Guinea pig spies, those three words pretty much sum up the entire plot of the new Disney flick that is raking it in at the box office.  When a scruffy scientist (Zach Galifianakis) and his team of talking guinea pig spies uncover a plot to take over the world they rise to the challenge. Saber (Bill Nighy), a billionaire appliance mogul is going to unleash “Clusterstorm,” a microchip that can turn any household appliance into a killing machine.  So G-Force (the guinea pig spies) have to overcome obstacle after obstacle in order to save the world.

The film is a pretty standard children’s movie, combining live action and 3D effects that prepare our offspring for the action extravaganzas they’ll be able to experience when they’re older.  All of the characters are pretty standard and adhere so closely to racial stereotypes that for a brief moment it felt like I was watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  There’s an African American guinea pig and a Mexican guinea pig and they are so stereotypical that it quickly becomes annoying.

On a positive note the digital animation is stellar.  The rodents are amazingly rendered and seamlessly inserted into the film.  The voice cast is solid as well and director Hoyt Yeatman did a fine job of bringing these super rodents to life.

And since this is a Disney production there are a few moral messages woven neatly into the plot of the flick.  The first one of course drives home the fact that family is extremely important.  With family on your side anything is possible.  The second message is that everyone, no matter how small, is special in their own way.

G-Force is one of the best, albeit standard guinea pig spy movies I’ve ever seen.  If your a parent your kids are gonna think it’s a killer film.

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