Beginning in the Civil War - when carrier pigeons delivered messages from the front lines - the American government has been covertly training animals to work in espionage. There's no life lessons learned and by the end of the film your kid will want a new pet.Two time Oscar-winning visual effects artist Hoyt Yeatman makes his feature directorial debut with this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced family film following a group of highly trained guinea pigs on their mission to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the world. It does seem like a typical Hollywood kid flick and it is exactly that. The film is entertaining and the kids will most likely enjoy it. Although if you're expecting this film to make sense I guess you're in the wrong theatre. The reveal at the end is lame and predictable, the whole bad guy plan is extremely far fetched and doesn't make sense. So don't expect anything new in the story department. Unlikely heroes stopping someone from world domination. The plot is one that we've all seen before. When the guinea pigs are told they aren't special, they get doubt themselves, this lasts all but one scene because in the next they get a pep talk and are back to the chase sequences. There are moments here and there to slow everything down, yet they are extremely short and don't seem to do much to create conflict for the characters. The film is fuel injected to the bone with this. This involves car chases left right and centre, covert-operations and battles with giant creatures. Since this is a Bruckheimer film, you know there has to be non-stop action. The interaction between human and creature is still noticeably fake, even after all these years they can't seem to perfect this. The animation is well done, the final action sequence does feel like it comes straight out of transformers, but it looks neat. The voice work from everyone was top notch, but if I were to hand it to anyone, it wold be cage for his transformation to the unknown. Finally Steve Buscemi has a small role as a hamster and he plays it exactly as you would picture Buscemi to play it. He gets the most laughs, which like I said, wasn't many. He has a bad case of flatulence and is the 'dumb' friendly character. The child favourite without a doubt is Hurley, the guinea pig that our team meets in a pet shop. The voice is so different that is makes you scratch your head, well done on all parts. In this film if you did not know it was Cage playing this character, you would never know it was him. Nicolas Cage plays Speckles, the mole who is a tech whiz. Penelope Cruz is the female character, who toys with the boys on which one she likes. Tracy Morgan is Blaster, if anyone has seen him on 30 Rock, it's the same here. The voice acting is great, Sam Rockwell plays Darwin, the lead commando. That's not to say they won't enjoy themselves, because the film is entertaining. Yet, in the theatre I was in, which was full of kids, had hardly any laughs. They want to see the funny guinea pigs do funny things. Nothing memorable, and the kids won't care about these people. Galifianakis is really timid here and Nighy does his whole British thing, while Arnett plays the G-Rated version of an A-hole. The animation is obviously the rodents and insects, while the cast is formed of Hangover star Zach Galifianakis, Will Arnett and Bill Nighy. The film is mixed animation and live action. I'm not saying it wasn't well done, I just expected more. Thus, it ultimately feels like a gimmick and will until a certain film that is planned to be released in the near future apparently plans to change that. The 3-D in this film didn't enhance the film or astonish me. This film has a few of those moments, water, debris and glass. From the aspect, the kids will enjoy the things that pop out at you. I watched this one because it was available in 3-D. They must foil the plans of Saber, a millionaire, who wants to take over the world with these home appliances that ultimately transform into Megatron. G-Force is a specially trained team of guinea pigs, a mole and a fly.
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