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Tell Others About This Page By Using This Button "G-FORCE" (2009) (voices of Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau) (PG) Alcohol/ Drugs Blood/Gore Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude Frightening/ Tense Scenes Guns/ Weapons Minor Mild Extreme Moderate Moderate Imitative Behavior Jump Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Profanity Moderate Minor Heavy None Minor Sex/ Nudity Smoking Tense Family Scenes Topics To Talk About Violence Minor None Moderate Moderate Moderate QUICK TAKE: Action/Comedy: After their covert government spy operation is shut down, a small band of talking guinea pigs and their fellow animal associates try to stop a consumer electronics magnate from activating a global network of his products. PLOT: Unbeknownst to the general public, the U.S. Government has been experimenting with using everyday animals as covert operatives that are able to infiltrate suspicious operations in ways that their human counterparts can't. The latest batch is a bunch of guinea pigs trained by FBI operative Ben Kendall (ZACH GALIFIANAKIS) and his assistant, Marcie (KELLI GARNER). Their guinea pig team -- unofficially known as G-Force and that's equipped with computer chips that allow them to speak English -- is led by Darwin (voice of SAM ROCKWELL). He's joined by weapons expert Blaster (voice of TRACY MORGAN), martial arts specialist Juarez (voice of PENELOPE CRUZ), aerial recon house fly Mooch, and computer expert Speckles (voice of NICOLAS CAGE) who's a near-sighted mole. With various gadgets and gizmos, they're quite good at what they do, and Ben has just sent them in to infiltrate the headquarters of consumer electronics CEO Leonard Saber (BILL NIGHY). A former arms dealer, he's been equipping all of his products with chips that will soon communicate with each other, creating a powerful and potentially dangerous, global network. But when new FBI task force director Kip Killian (WILL ARNETT) learns that they failed to get their paws on the necessary intel to bring down Saber, he shuts down the G-Force operation. Realizing they're in trouble, the team escapes, only to end up accidentally captured and taken to a pet shop. There, they meet Bucky (voice of STEVE BUSCEMI), a highly territorial and easily agitated hamster as well as the far more laid back guinea pig Hurley (voice of JON FAVREAU) who's just looking for a family to adopt him. With time running out before Saber's global network is activated, the members of the G-Force team realize they must escape from the pet shop and stop the plan. As they attempt to do that, they must not only contend with Hurley becoming an unlikely member of their team, but also Killian ordering agents Trigstad (GABRIEL CASSEUS) and Carter (JACK CONLEY) to find and round up the rodents and retire them from active duty for good. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? The notion of talking guinea pigs doing spy stuff might draw in the younger crowd, but older kids will probably avoid this like the plague. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG For some mild action and rude humor. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: DARWIN is the no-nonsense guinea pig leader of the covert government operative team. Even after their unit is shut down, he wants to complete his mission, but must contend with various obstacles and complications, including having Hurley tagging along with him. HURLEY is a laid back pet store guinea pig who meets the team and views Darwin as his long-lost brother. A bit of a goof-ball, he ends up tagging along on the team's mission. SPECKLES is the nearsighted mole who serves as the team's computer expert, but has a dark secret in his past that motivates his actions. JUAREZ is the team's lone female member, a confident guinea pig who's an expert in martial arts and usually ends up having to save Blaster. BLASTER is the team's outspoken weapons expert who thinks Juarez is sweet on him when he's not dropping all sorts of slang. ZACH GALIFIANAKIS plays the team's human associate and trainer who isn't happy when Killian orders that his program be shuttered. Accordingly, he does what he can to help them reunite and accomplish the task at hand. BILL NIGHY plays the corporate CEO who's implanted special computer chips in all of his products that, once activated, will create a global network of his electronics, a potentially troubling development that has the FBI worried. WILL ARNETT plays the new FBI task force leader who wants the G-Force experiment and team shut down, while GABRIEL CASSEUS and JACK CONLEY play his subordinates ordered to make sure that happens. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: Here's a quick look at the content found in this action-based comedy that's rated PG. While no "regular" profanity is present, a few religious and a greater number of colorful phrases are uttered. A female guinea pig twisting her body to shake off the water is slightly sexualized in that it's shown in slow motion as a male one watches. Action-based violence (including transformer type products coming to life and trying to harm or kill various characters) is present, as is some slapstick style material. Some of those scenes and moments of potential peril might be unsettling, suspenseful and/or scary to younger viewers but probably few others. Crude humor is present in various scenes, as is some alcohol, but it's only held and never seen being consumed. Various characters have bad attitudes, while some potentially imitative behavior is present. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. For those prone to visually induced motion sickness, there are varying amounts of camera movement in the film. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE Some people hold drinks at a reception and Saber announces he's going upstairs to have one. We then see him holding a glass up there. Saber holds a glass of champagne. BLOOD/GORE After emerging from some water, Juarez is seen twisting her body in slow motion to shed the H2O and Blaster gazes at her doing so. She tells him, "Don't drop a pellet," but he replies, "Too late." To distract Saber and prevent him from returning to his office, Mooch briefly flies up his nostril and then back out. Hurley farts in his cage, blowing the shavings covering him up into the air. Moments later, Juarez asks where the bathroom is, and he replies that she's basically standing on it (the newspaper piece he used), causing her and others to be grossed out. Blaster lights one of Hurley's farts, causing a small, fiery explosion of gas. Hurley tells a snake he'll hit him so hard "you'll shed yourself" (a play on another "s" word commonly used in that saying). Roaches race over some FBI agents' food as a distraction. Hurley shows Darwin a similar marking on the fur covering his butt, but Darwin complains, "Don't point that thing at me, it might go off." One character tells another, "Get your butt out of my face," followed by the second replying, "Get your face out of my butt." Hurley farts inside a vehicle pod, thus briefly filling it with a cloud that obscures his and Darwin's view. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE We hear that Saber is a former arms dealer, and he's covertly installed computer chips in all of his products that, once activated, will create a global and potentially dangerous network of such appliances. SPOILER ALERT: We learn that one of Saber's associates has even more diabolical plans regarding that where he wants to use said products to rid the world of humans. A family adopts Hurley and Juarez from a pet shop, but the teenage son puts Hurley in his lacrosse stick and heaves him across the store toward a snake. The guinea pig lands in the cage and the snake strikes at him (seen from his POV), but it hits the glass wall dividing them and Hurley is okay. The highly territorial Bucky pushes Hurley out of a trap door at the bottom of their cage, with the guinea pig landing hard on the floor below (so that Bucky can have the cage all to himself). The above teenage boy puts Hurley in a remote-controlled car and then drives him through all sorts of things (to be mean), but Hurley enjoys the ride. Ben admits that he lied to the team about them being genetically enhanced guinea pigs rather than just the normal ones they are. FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence" may be unsettling, suspenseful and/or scary to younger viewers but probably few others. Some younger viewers may worry that Saber is going to catch Darwin in the act of copying files from his computer. As Darwin hides, Saber reactivates a gas fireplace, and the emerging flames nearly get the guinea pig as he races across that to escape (he does, although a little bit of his fur ends up on fire, but is quickly put out). A Doberman digs at a hole and prevents Speckles from escaping, prompting the rest of the team to come to his rescue. That includes Blaster parachuting down and hitting the dog on the head, but then ending up stuck in a bush. The dog then menacingly comes at him, but Juarez saves him by scaring it away. Just then, an exterminator arrives and gases all of the team, but it's really just Ben rescuing them with a harmless smoke cover. Marcie tries to distract FBI agents as Darwin tries to get his emergency escape chute to blast him away to safety. At various points in the film, we see onscreen clocks counting down toward Saber's activation of his global network of devices. As Mooch flies out of a pet shop, a lizard and then several Venus fly traps nearly catch him as he passes by. A family adopts Hurley and Juarez from a pet shop, but the teenage son puts Hurley in his lacrosse stick and heaves him across the store toward a snake. The guinea pig lands in the cage and the snake strikes at him (seen from his POV), but it hits the glass wall dividing them and Hurley is okay. Speckles plays dead in his cage so that he'll be taken outside and buried (from where he can dig himself out). But the trash truck then arrives and the worker throws him in there instead, with the machinery then compacting the trash, and everyone fears the mole has been killed (he's later seen alive). An activated microwave oven lures Hurley inside and then slams the door shut, trapping him. It then searches for the right setting to cook him, and when he mentions the word chicken, it selects that and starts (but he's rescued and is okay). A small transformer-type device comes after Darwin and kicks him off a platform. He grabs hold of a cable but falls with that, and Hurley burns his paws trying to stop that cable, although he eventually does. Hurley then jumps on the other end of the cable (to send Darwin back up). As a huge, transformer-type robot starts to fall apart, Speckles falls away and Darwin saves him, only to need Juarez to save both of them from their plummet. The team finds Hurley and he appears to be dead, but then comes to and is okay. GUNS/WEAPONS Killian wears a sidearm. Various transformer-type electronic devices fire laser type beams at guinea pigs and humans in several scenes (more details are under "Violence"). Human agents carry automatic weapons as they arrive on the scene. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "Whoa, that is not cool," "Tick-tock, we're on the clock," "Tighty-whiteys," "Get your fuzzy hind moving," "Don't drop a pellet," "Holy foxes," "Your butt's on fire," "Hey meathead," "I just saved your (something) behind," "Holla," "You talk a lot of smack," "That's a hideous crime against nature," "I'll hit you so hard you'll shed yourself," "Busted," "Guinea pigs gone wild," "I don't like when my fly is down," "C'mon soggy," "Dogs...why does it always have to be dogs?" "Get your butt out of my face," "Get your face out of my butt," "This would be a good time for you to take your medication," "That was off the huzzle," "You, my friend, suck," "You are fine china," "My brother's a loon," "Yippee-ki-yay, coffee maker," "Watch out, bro," "Talk about a killer cappuccino," "Up high...down low...too slow," "It was so gnarly," "That's what's up," "Pimp my ride," "Bring down big momma with baby disease," "Little is the new big," "Bye-bye bipeds," "Smell you later," "Shut it," "(Something) with the bull, you get the horns," "I can't believe the mole was the mole," "A frozen FBI-cicle" and what sounded like "We're official tissue now." Although most of it's animal-based, some kids might be inspired to try to imitate some of the action that occurs in the film. Mooch belches. Blaster lights one of Hurley's farts, causing a small, fiery explosion of gas. A young girl adopts Juarez from a pet shop and dresses her up like a doll, including painting her nails. JUMP SCENES Seen from Hurley's point of view, a large snake strikes out at him, but hits the glass wall dividing them. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) A heavy amount of adventurous and suspenseful music plays in the film. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) None. PROFANITY At least 1 use of "Oh my God," and what sounded like 1 use of "Oh Lord." SEX/NUDITY After emerging from some water, Juarez is seen twisting her body in slow motion to shed the H2O and Blaster gazes at her doing so. She tells him, "Don't drop a pellet," but he replies, "Too late." When Darwin says his missing spy gear is back in the lab, Hurley mockingly states so is his (Hurley's) "hot Canadian girlfriend." SMOKING None. TENSE FAMILY SCENES Ben tells Darwin that the latter's parents abandoned him due to him being the runt of the litter. We see a flashback to humans capturing little Speckles and his parents, and his dad telling him to get revenge on the humans if he can (with the implication being he lost his parents at that moment). TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT Animals used in experiments conducted by governments, corporations and scientists. How kids should realize that just because animals appear fun in movies doesn't mean they will behave the same way as pets. Ben admits that he lied to the team about them being genetically enhanced guinea pigs rather than just the normal ones they are. Revenge as a motivator. VIOLENCE To distract Saber and prevent him from returning to his office, Mooch briefly flies up his nostril and then back out, prompting him to swat at it and accidentally knock a woman to the floor in the process. A Doberman digs at a hole and prevents Speckles from escaping, prompting the rest of the team to come to his rescue. That includes Blaster parachuting down and hitting the dog on the head. Blaster runs toward a glass cage to try to break through it and escape, but he simply slams into it (played for laughs). Darwin flips Hurley to the shavings covering their cage floor. Bucky pushes Hurley out of a trap door at the bottom of their cage, with the guinea pig landing hard on the floor below (so that Bucky can have the cage all to himself). A lawn sprinkler activates and shoots Hurley through the air, with him landing hard on the sidewalk. A teenage boy puts Hurley in a remote-controlled car and then drives him through all sorts of things (to be mean), but Hurley enjoys the ride. Later, as Hurley tries to escape, the boy tries to slam a box down onto him and that car, but Hurley ends up wrapping a rope or chord around the boy's legs, causing him to fall over into a kiddie pool (he's okay). When Darwin tries to remove a Saber chip from a coffee maker, it reacts defensively, first firing coffee beans at him and Hurley, and then a sharp and spinning blade (they duck and it barely misses them). It then breaks through the storefront window and comes after them, firing laser type blasts and such, but Darwin leads it out into the road where a truck runs over the coffee machine, crushing it. The team's small, 3-pod vehicle smashes through a glass window, with various FBI agents then pursuing them in their large SUVs. The pods then separate, with one causing one SUV to become airborne and then crash into a parked RV (causing damage, but no one appears to be hurt). Another races through a fireworks display on the ground, setting off the fireworks that cause that SUV to turn over in the parking lot (after driving through displays, etc. but no one is hurt here either). An activated microwave oven fires laser type beams at the guinea pigs and tries to stomp down on others. It then ends up breaking a tripwire that sets off a number of large explosions, destroying it, causing other property damage, and sending the team racing for cover. A towering transformer-type robot collection of products emerges from a house, causing destruction to it, while firing shots at FBI agents and crushing one car. It also causes space debris to be pulled down toward Earth. A small transformer-type device comes after Darwin and kicks him off a platform. He grabs hold of a cable but falls with that, and Hurley burns his paws trying to stop that cable, although he eventually does. Hurley then jumps on the other end of the cable (to send Darwin back up) and later appears to be dead, but then comes to and is okay. Reviewed July 22, 2009 / Posted July 24, 2009

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