![]() ![]() ![]() And finally there is Nick Cage as Speckles the mole, the computer genius, scarred for life by the murder of his family when he was a child, who is barely recognisable and plays an important part for the twist of the film – though when you watch it, you’ll see it a mile away. Dee Bradley Baker, I think, has one line as Mooch the fly, although it sets up a pun which is pretty much the best line in the film. As a team these three share very little chemistry, but that is probably due to the speed of the script there is an attempt made at a love interest between the three, a small amount of rivalry, if you will, but it’s blink and you miss it, meaning that the characters come across as simply saying their lines. Thankfully the sultry tones of Penélope Cruz, who voices Juarez, the last in the guinea team, more than make up for Morgan’s annoying whine. Tracy Morgan gives Blaster voice and for the life of me I do not know how this man keeps getting jobs, he is neither funny nor entertaining, and his voice is just so annoying that the character drove me mad. In the lead role of Darwin, group leader of the covert team, is Sam Rockwell, so excellent in Moon, who has to give his character gumption, heroism, warmth and compassion and whilst he does his very best with a limited script there is not much time to get a fully rounded character despite the few bumps that the character has to weather it’s as if the makers were far more interested in getting to the next action scene than promoting empathy for the character’s plight, which, of course, they are, in a trait that is all too common in the modern kids blockbuster. Being of high production values the makers scored some serious acting talent, though quite why they opted to voice spy guinea pigs is another question. The team comprises of the leader, a weapons expert, a martial arts expert, a covert surveillance expert and a computer wizard that is three guinea pigs, a fly and a mole respectively. The unit is a special elite squad of guinea pigs trained in the art of espionage complete with ‘James Bond’ style equipment and start of the art monitoring kit but that is not all, Ben, their trainer and developer, has perfected a human/animal interface enabling communication between the two species – i.e. gear whirring away the boss, Ben, talks to one of his operatives about how they are possibly going to lose their funding so have to launch a special ops mission to gather specific intelligence that will prove their worth and thus keep their unit alive. The film starts off in a typical spy base with plenty of high tech. ![]() Call me cynical but I kinda need more out of my films these days. So with Bruckheimer producing for Disney we can expect massive production values along with a child friendly script and on those terms G-Force is right on the money, and when viewed with that in mind you can just about forgive it, because the film has little to no substance and despite its frantic pace, plods along with nothing to say or get excited about. Night Shyamalan makes films about stories he told his kids, Bruckheimer produces films based on fairground rides and now, with tonight’s feature, we have a film based on an idea conceived by a five year old. As Hollywood casts its net further and wider in its search for the next big movie franchise they draw on ever more thin ideas with which to make a script. ![]()
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