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Blu-Ray Review: ‘G-Force’ Offers Jerry Bruckheimer Lobotomy For Kids
21 December 2009 9:10 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Here’s one of the year’s lamest excuses for children’s entertainment. Like “Shorts” and “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,” it assumes that young minds crave little more than frantic and shrill zaniness. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer views kids in the same way he views adults: as human guinea pigs in need of being dumbed down.
Like his equally abysmal “Kangaroo Jack,” “G-Force” is an adult action comedy that just happens to feature animated characters. In its theatrical format, the film pushed the boundaries of 3D effects, culminating in an experience as headache-inducing and empty headed as James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Its 2D presentation on Blu-ray is vastly preferable, though the film still amounts to little more than a cynical exercise in special effects technology, complete with awful dialogue, uninspired animation and a script assembled out of the most audience-insulting cliches.
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.5/5.0
First-time feature director Hoyt Yeatman »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
G-force Blu-ray Review
16 December 2009 5:35 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Whatever can be said of Jerry Bruckheimer, and at this point the white hot hate for his style of Bruckheimer/Simpson movies has to have subsided some (he’s no longer making Top Gun-Style borderline propaganda now that Michael Bay’s moved on), there is no doubt of one thing: dude has an eye for talent. Look at G-Force, and the cast: Tracy Morgan, Zach Galifianakis, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Nicholas Cage, Will Arnett, Penelope Cruz, and Bill Nighy. That’s a cast you’d want in most anything. My review of G-Force after the jump.
Morgan, Rockwell, and Cruz play the lead guinea pigs, who through some training by Galifianakis are an elite squadron of spies. They infiltrate (with the help of their mole, voiced by Cage) Leonard Saber’s (Nighy) home and are on the lookout for some fiendish terrorist plot, but can’t find it, which »
- Andre Dellamorte
G-Force: Three-Disc DVD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Copy
14 December 2009 5:02 PM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Blu-Ray Review
Directed by: Hoyt Yeatman
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, Nicolas Cage, Jon Favreau, Bill Nighy, Zach Galifianakis
Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Rating: PG
Due Out: December 15, 2009
Plot: Four guinea pigs and a mole (collectively known as G-Force) work together to stop a Skynet-like networking orchestrated by a billionaire named Leonard Saber (Bill Nighy).
Who’S It For?: Easily amused children and their generous parents who can be impressed by computer graphic imagery. Fans of Zach Galifianakis will just be sad.
Movie:
The writing is more concerned with concocting dated one-liners than it is in crafting clever action sequences (which yes, is possible even when guinea pigs are the main characters). The moments that might keep viewers interested are the ones that display a severe dedication and scope to a movie about guinea pigs as superspies – because the animation is so damn elaborate, not because »
- Nick Allen
G-Force Rolling onto Blu-ray in December; First Look Cover Art
18 September 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Jerry Bruckheimer's $100 million guinea pigs will find their way under many a Christmas tree when Disney Home Entertainment releases G-Force on Blu-ray Disc and DVD December 15. Though G-Force on home video will not include the eye-popping 3D that helped make its theatrical run so successful, the Blu-ray edition will include what should be sharp 2.4:1 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-hd Master Audio 48kHz/24-bit. The Blu-ray edition will span three discs with the second and third disc being dedicated to a digital copy and DVD version. The first disc will include the theatrical cut of the film, all the bonus features found on the two-disc DVD edition as well as a trio of Blu-ray exclusive features. Digital copy DVD version G-Farce - Bloopers and Flubs Deleted scenes Music videos "Jump" by Flo Rida featuring Nelly Furtado "Ready to Rock" by Steve Ruston "Go G-Force" Blaster's Boot Camp - High-tech G-Force »
'Harry Potter' subdued by 'Force'
26 July 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
You know it's a competitive summer when not even Harry Potter is wizard enough to repeat as boxoffice champ.
Disney's "G-Force," a 3D mix of family-oriented live action and CGI, debuted at No. 1 during the weekend with an estimated $32.2 million in domestic boxoffice, exceeding even the most bullish projections for the heavily marketed Jerry Bruckheimer-produced pic. Warner Bros.' "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" finished second after dropping a big 61% from its first Friday-Sunday tally, though $30 million from its sophomore session conjured a magical 12-day cume of $221.8 million.
Sony's romantic comedy "The Ugly Truth," starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, opened solidly in third with $27 million, and Warners' R-rated horror pic "Orphan" bowed softly in fourth with $12.8 million. Fox's leggy 3D animated feature "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" finished fifth, with $8.2 million from its fourth frame yielding a cume of $171.3 million.
The $138 million produced by the weekend's »
- By Carl DiOrio
Guinea Pigs Take Down Harry Potter
26 July 2009 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office. Walt Disney Pictures' G-Force , producer Jerry Bruckheimer's first 3-D film, debuted in the top spot at the domestic box office with an estimated $32.2 million from 3,697 theaters. The comedy adventure, about highly trained guinea pigs, was directed by visual effects guru Hoyt Yeatman and stars Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penelope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan and Kelli Garner. It averaged $8,697 per theater for the three days. Warner Bros. Pictures' Harry Potter and the »
G-Force
24 July 2009 2:11 PM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Hoyt Yeatman
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, Nicolas Cage, Jon Favreau, Zach Galifianakis, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy
Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Plot: Four guinea pigs and a mole (collectively known as G-Force) work together to stop a Skynet-like networking orchestrated by a billionaire named Saber (Bill Nighy).
Who’s It For? Adults, this isn’t as painful as it may look. Kids – you’ll enjoy it. But both of you, please don’t use this film’s release as a reason to increase the number of guinea pig owners.
Expectations: This was going to be a movie with talking guinea pigs, not a fourth Mission Impossible movie.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Various Talent as G-Force: The various animals are all given human characteristics (like hugging and even Facebook), with Rockwell being the most unusual fit for voicing a guinea pig. »
- Nick Allen
Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 07.24.09
24 July 2009 1:04 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
G-force Studio: Disney Rated: PG for some mild action and rude humor. Starring: Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell Directed by: Hoyt Yeatman Jr. What it’s about: Secret agent guinea pigs. In 3D. What else do you need to know? What I liked: I’m going to catch holy hell for becoming a cheerleader for this movie because it is pretty much getting crushed by reviewers and fanboys alike. However, like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, it has a very specific audience, and it delivers perfectly to that audience (very few of which include reviewers and fanboys). If you saw Bolt and enjoyed that first ten minutes, you will pee yourself with this movie because it’s 90 minutes of that stuff. I saw it with my two kids and they freaking loved it. With Jerry Bruckheimer behind the film as a producer, we get a high-octane action film for anyone’s »
- Kevin Carr
Review: G-Force
24 July 2009 11:15 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
We live in a marvelous age, one where technological advancements have made it relatively easy to produce a film in which computer-generated guinea pigs interact seamlessly with flesh-and-blood humans. What's extraordinary is that a film can have all that and still be boring. Eighty years ago, people were delighted just to see movies talk. In 2009, you can watch animated rodents save the world and still think, "Meh. What else you got?"
G-Force is the subject, a harmless and good-natured family flick that unfortunately relies so much on its central conceit -- small animals have been trained as government spies!! -- that it forgets to do anything else. Take the animals out of the equation and you're left with an exceedingly generic secret-agent adventure -- which may be no surprise, given that the screenplay is by the husband-and-wife team of Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, who also wrote the National Treasure movies, »
- Eric D. Snider
G-Force Spins Its Wheel
24 July 2009 10:13 AM, PDT | newser.com | See recent newser news »
If their mission was to please critics, the adorable spies of G-Force have failed. Here's what the critics saying: Director Hoyt Yeatman should be ashamed, writes Ty Burr in the Boston Globe . “If you can’t squeeze a decent movie out of talking 3-D superagent guinea pigs, you may as well throw in the towel and consider a career in insurance.” The film’s tired, imagination-free spy gags make it feel like “a Xerox of a Xerox.” The “aggressively stupid” movie demonstrates “the low regard Hollywood has for the intelligence and curiosity of children,” writes Dan Kois for the Washington Post . The »
G-Force: From Idea to Creation
24 July 2009 9:04 AM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
A team of guinea pigs, trained for combat, dressed in military uniform, battling appliances that come to life, while also trying to outsmart the evil humans who are looking to destroy their team, sounds like an idea straight from the brain of a five year old. Truth is, the ideas that lie behind the brilliant new film G-Force stemmed from one weekend with a child of that age! Director Hoyt Yeatman and his family were greeted by his son's kindergarten classroom guinea pig for one weekend six years ago and that was how G-Force was born. Hoyt's son concocted an idea while pet-sitting the classroom guinea pig that these furry friends would be the next superheroes of the world, an elite task force trained to be fearless and powerful. Upon sharing his ideas with his famed visual-effects specialist father, the idea of G-Force was created. The exceedingly proud director spoke »
- cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
Review: ‘G-Force’
24 July 2009 5:01 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
They’re cute. They’re cuddly. They’re a special force of secret agents funded by the government. But, most importantly, they’re boring. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, ‘G-Force’ certainly has a lot going on in it. Presented in RealD 3D, the visuals bombard you left and right. Unfortunately, much like a hamster/guinea pig/gerbil/pick your rodent on a wheel, the film goes absolutely nowhere fast.The film hits the ground running, so much so, in fact, that you might feel like you’ve stepped into the middle of a film already in progress. We rotate around a table where Zach Galifianakis (who, I hope earned a swell paycheck) is talking Darwin (voiced by Sam Rockwell), the leader of the G-Force. The team is a specially trained group of animals (three guinea pigs, one mole, and one fly) who infiltrate the deepest, most heavily guarded fortifications the enemies can think up. »
- Kirk
My Fun "G-Force" Movie Review!
23 July 2009 10:14 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3-D film to the big screen with G-Force, a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-Force are guinea pigs Darwin (Sam Rockwell), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (Tracy Morgan), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (Penélope Cruz), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert Mooch, and a star-nosed mole Speckles (Nicolas Cage), the computer and information specialist. Walt Disney Pictures
(Read my written review right here and my interviews with the cast and crew right here)
And now, here's my "G-Force" movie review:
Production Info: »
- Manny
'Harry Potter' set to fend off new trio
23 July 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Expect Warner Bros.' "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" to be crowned king of the domestic boxoffice again this weekend.
With $200 million in its cauldron at the start of just its second weekend, "Prince" could fall 60% from its first-frame tally and still produce a $31 million soph session. So though three films opening in wide release Friday are expected to do solid business, none is likely to compete for the weekend title.
Sony's romantic comedy "The Ugly Truth," helmed by Robert Luketic ("21") and starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, might be the strongest of the new pics, with prerelease tracking surveys showing prospects for an opening north of $20 million.
Produced for less than $40 million, "Truth" carries an R rating but is likely to draw best among older females, who execs hope will rope in a few guys for a date-night outing. Sony offered 160 sneak previews of "Truth" last weekend and attracted 90% capacity audiences. »
- By Carl DiOrio
My Fun One-on-One Interviews with "G-Force" Cast and Crew! Nicolas Cage, Jerry Bruckheimer, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan Reveal Secrets of the 3-D Event
23 July 2009 7:28 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Here you go! Peep into the "G-Force" fun! Take a look at my one-on-one interviews with the cast and crew. (for the "G-Force" movie review, click here)
This fun live-action/animated/3-D hybrid opens tomorrow, July 24th!
Nicolas Cage "G-force" Interview
Nicolas Cage creates a weird but effective voice as Speckles, the mole.
We talked about the film, his involvement, and why he love Palm Springs, my hometown :)
Blaster, voiced by 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan, steals the show. He's a guinea pig who's a member of the G-Force team. He's a weapons expert! I wonder if he wears Vibram FiveFingers shoes :happy
Jerry Bruckheimer "G-force" Interview
"G-Force" is the first live-action, animated, 3-D film that uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has worked on.
We talked about his involvement with the project, why he chose to make 3-D after shooting the film in 2-D, and what does he want kids to get from the movie. »
- Manny
Box Office: The Force of Truthful Orphans
22 July 2009 4:26 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
As expected, Harry Potter cast an effective spell over moviegoers taking the top spot at the box office and out grossing the series' last installment. Here's the top five:
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $77.8 million ($158 million for Wednesday through Sunday)
2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $17.6 million
3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: $13.7 million
4. Bruno: $8.3 million
5. The Proposal: $8.3 million
This is the first time since the beginning of June that we've had three major releases in a single weekend.
What's It All About: Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Oscar-winning effects artist Hoyt Yeatman, G-Force is a 3-D family comedy about talking guinea pigs working in the field of high tech espionage.
Why It Might Do Well: No doubt this was greenlit after Alvin and the Chipmunks started raking in the dough. If CGI chipmunks can pull in $360 million worldwide then why not guinea pigs? The impressive voice cast, »
- Matt Bradshaw
Exclusive Video: G-Force Cast & Crew Interviews!
21 July 2009 9:19 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer deliver the best RealD 3D film yet. I was totally unprepared for the scale and epic action scenes in G-Force. The visual and sound effects are first rate. The trailers do not do the actual film justice. Where other summer films don't want you to focus on details, G-Force flaunts it. Kudos to director Hoyt Yeatman and his crew for making such a technically superb film. I recommend it for the effects, but the story is good and will appeal to all ages.
We were the first to see the finished film. The cast and crew were very proud of it. I've never seen Nicolas Cage as relaxed in a junket as he was here. He's normally very serious in press events, but was clearly happy with the finished product. Check out below for our interviews!
G-Force hits theaters everywhere July 24th. »
"G-Force" Movie Review -- How Many Kisses Do These Guinea Pigs Get?
21 July 2009 7:25 PM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
We know it.s just a matter of time before Hollywood makes a film featuring talking guinea pigs. In .G-Force,. not only do these furry creatures have the gift of gab, they can also kick major booty.
Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, the guy who gave us the .Pirates of the Caribbean. and .National Treasure. franchises, released his first live-action/animated/3-D hybrid. The result is an entertaining picture for kids that grown-ups will enjoy because of the 3-D technology.
Originally intended to be released in 2-D, Bruckheimer and company decided to create a 3-D version of .G-Force. using Disney Digital 3-D. Every shot is painstakingly transformed into the glorious three-dimensional look.
.G-Force. is the directing debut of Hoyt Yeatman. He previously won an Oscar for the visual effects work he did for .The Abyss.. I suspect that Yeatman was hired for his visual »
- Manny
"G-Force" - Plenty new interview clips and film clips. 21 videos in total!
14 July 2009 1:58 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Enjoy a hefty buffet of 21 video clips from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "G-Force," starring Nicolas Cage, Will Arnett, Penélope Cruz, Sam Rockwell, Bill Nighy, Steve Buscemi, Jon Favreau, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Tracy Morgan, Niecy Nash and Mini Anden. The Wibberleys (Marianne Wibberley , Cormac Wibberley) write alongside Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Tim Firth from the story by director Hoyt Yeatman. See interviews with Nicolas Cage, Zach Galifianakis, Jon Favreau, Bill Nighy, Jerry Bruckheimer, Will Arnett, Tyler Patrick Jones, Tracy Morgan and many others »
"G-Force" - Plenty images in from the Disney animated actioner.
13 July 2009 3:31 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
See images aplenty in from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' "G-Force," featuring the voice talents of Nicolas Cage, Will Arnett, Penélope Cruz, Sam Rockwell, Bill Nighy, Steve Buscemi, Jon Favreau, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Tracy Morgan, Niecy Nash and Mini Anden. The film opens on July 24th and is written by The Wibberleys (Marianne Wibberley , Cormac Wibberley), Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Tim Firth from the story by helmer Hoyt Yeatman. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3D film to the big screen with G-Force, a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech »
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