Just got back from seeing the movie G-Force, which is about talking guinea pigs who are trained to be spies. No time to write in complete sentences:
- The most convincing CGI mixed with live-action I’ve seen; the lighting and textures looked just right.
- For a kids’ film, not too much cringeworthy slapstick. The visual gags tended to be physics jokes, like what happens when two guinea pigs are running inside a tyre and the fat one trips.
- The inevitable sappy moral lesson is at least: “you can achieve things through learning and don’t need to be genetically superior”. This is better than “animals are people too”, “profit is evil” or “save the planet”.
- There are some pretty cool and believable gadgets and gizmos. the motorised hamster wheel vehicle has heads up displays including a live feed from a camera mounted on a fly, all used to good effect.
- There is a very funny line in homage to Die Hard, just for the grown-ups.
- The heroes solve problems with ingenuity rather than luck. In fact there were surprisingly few “I can’t believe that” moments, given the subject matter. An example is the use of a radio controlled car and its controller as transport.
- The plot is quite intelligent and there is a nice twist.
- I saw it in 3D, which I’d recommend as it’s quite subtly done. There are some very cool tracking shots.