G-Force Movie Reviews

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. Call this faint praise, if you like. 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

Did you know that guinea pigs are almost human. Well, actually 98 per cent human, as their DNA declares. So what are they doing in pet shops and burrows, playing around as paltry rodents when they can actually be saving the world as special agents working with the FBI. Phew! Did we overdo it? Not really. Because Yeatman's film actually makes the heroics of this furry bunch of don't-call-us-rodents seem plausible.

The other film that revolves around rodents this week (Hindi release Bal Ganesh 2, a tale told by five mice is one), G-Force has a Mission Impossible type premise. Guinea pigs developed for combat, recon and surveillance and secretly funded by the FBI, are on the brink of having their operations shut down. After their latest mission goes off successfully (or so it seems), the feds drop in to check progress; that's when disaster strikes

If your kids have been naughty lately and you can't think of an appropriate punishment, take them to watch G-Force. It's an unimaginative action adventure in which a team of super-spy guinea pigs save the world from a mad, controlling billionaire who wages a war against mankind by programming every coffee-maker, juicer and grinder manufactured by his corporation into turning against humans. There are less than a handful of laughs provided by