Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-11-30
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Dutch, Hungarian, Arabic
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 84 minutes

Synopsis
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. 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. The latest government program is a clandestine espionage team known as "G-Force," which includes a team of ultra-intelligent guinea pigs who share 98.7 percent of their DNA with humans. Comprised of unpredictable weapons expert Blaster (voice of Tracy Morgan), alluring martial arts expert Juarez (voice of Penelope Cruz), stealthy reconnaissance expert Mooch, and a star-nosed mole named Speckles (voice of Nicolas Cage), who specializes in computers, this crack team of agents is fronted by heroic squad leader Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell). When a deranged billionaire hatches a plan to control the entire planet through common household appliances, the G-Force leaps into action on a mission to ensure that he does not succeed.

Customer Reviews

Perhaps the best children's film of 2009 to date

This review of "G-Force"(G-Force [DVD] [2009]) is based on having been to see the film in the cinema with my family.

Children's tastes vary so much that no film can please every child, let alone every parent, but I can only report that my two eight-year old children enjoyed this. It also has plenty of good lines in it aimed at the adults in the audience: in fact I have not enjoyed a film I watched with my children so much since "The Incredibles."

The basic story is that an FBI scientist has been training a group of intelligent animals and insects to act as high-tech special agents. "G Force" consists of three Guinea Pigs, a mole, a fly, and a number of cockroaches, who have been trained to sneak into the homes or businesses of suspected criminals looking for the evidence which can be used to bring them down.

Learning that the FBI is about to pull the plug on their funding, he sends G Force on an unapproved mission to infiltrate the mansion of one of the country's biggest consumer electrical goods manufacturers (Bill Nighy) who the FBI suspect is up to something very sinister.

Sure enough, the G force leader, Darwin, finds and copies a file on a computer in the mansion which appears to show that the company is planning some kind of ghastly attack on the whole human race. But when their electronics expert, the mole Speckles (voiced by Nicholas Cage) presents the data to the FBI, it merely proves that the world's leading consumer goods manufacturer is about to bring out a new coffee machine. Disgusted, the Special Agent in charge orders the project shut down.

To prove that they really did get some valuable data and stop a catastrophe, G force have to go underground. And what Darwin does not realise is that someone very close to him is a traitor ...

The film is quite violent and vivid, and quite a bit more adult in tone than you would expect given that it is a children's comedy whose heroes are guinea pigs. The PG rating is justified: my eight-year-olds were fine with this but I would be careful about taking a child aged six or younger to see it.

Of course the idea of intelligent rodents is implausible - it's a children's film, for heaven's sake - but given that basic premise the action of the film is quite good at enabling the viewer to suspend disbelief.