G-Force

Even my love for talking animal movies (because talking animals are FUNNY) is enough to make me skip with glee after seeing G-Force. It's more like a sullen shuffle out of the theater after a movie that is blah.

Zach Galifianakis and Kelli Garner star as Ben and Marcy - two FBI agents who have discovered three genetically mutated guinea pigs, Darwin (voice by Sam Rockwell), Juarez (voice by Penelope Cruz), and Blaster (voice by Tracy Morgan), as well as a genetically mutated mole, Speckle (voice by Nicolas Cage), and trained the foursome to become a top flight FBI special ops team that make The A-Team look kind of wimpy.

Their current mission is to invade the home of a technology giant, Saber (Bill Nighy), and capture his top secret plans to take over the world. Along the way, the mission goes awry, they are disavowed by the FBI, and must find a way to stop Saber while imprisoned in a pet store.

What is Saber up to?

Can he be stopped?

Will our heroes be stuck on little treadmills for the rest of their lives?

From Jerry Bruckheimer Films, G-Force is just like his explosion-filled live action spectacles, but that's not always a good thing. G-Force is unimaginatively, boringly bland without much to make you excited or angry about seeing it.

Director Hoyt Yeatman and the five writer team (I have never found a direct correlation between having more writers and the movie being better) make a very simple movie that is geared towards kids. The action and humor is slapstick oriented. Also, they want to fill G-Force with every well known one-liner from every famous movie you have seen before, but we have seen other movies, TV shows, comics and more quote these lines so often, the joke stopped being funny 10 years ago, and kids won't have any idea what movie is being referenced.

Sure, if you see it in 3-D, you'll get plenty of 3-D effects galore as stuff comes flying off the screen as often as possible, but none of the story nor the action is very compelling. It's as if the entire audience should just find a few nuggets to hold onto, and make it through to the end to show you can have the courage and stamina to persevere.

G-Force is rated PG for some mild action and rude humor.