G-Force (2009) - Review

G-Force boasts a star-studded crew of Zach Galifianakis, Will Arnett, Bill Nighy alongside the voice acting of Sam Rockwell, Penelope Cruz, Nicolas Cage, Tracy Morgan, and Jon Favreau. The movie centers around a secret squad of animal special agent hopefuls raised and trained with FBI resources. After a failed attempt at gathering evidence from Nighy's Leonard Saber, a former weapons dealer turned legitimate home appliance businessman, the crew of 3 guinea pigs and one mole (Rockwell, Cruz, Morgan, and Cage respectively) must regroup and determine the best course of action to take Saber and his criminal partner Mr. Yanshu from taking over the world with the chips in all Saber home appliances. 

This movie is a very complex movie for children. I was constantly astonished at the technical aspects of the movie that don't lend well to children following the plot. As a movie for adults, however, it doesn't break past its attempts of appealing to children. The themes of family and trust are strong, as well as a fairly complicated love triangle plotline that would go over a child's head. I was very intrigued as to what the studio process might have been as I watched more and more of the movie, and I can't puzzle it out; the best that I can do at the present moment is determine that Disney had started production on the movie, filmed the live-action scenes requiring the main cast of actors being present, and spent most of their time in voice acting and computer animation. Having spent so much money in the process, they had to ship the project in order to fill some sort of theater dominance. But that is all speculation, and can enjoy the polished sound mixing and computer animation that Disney can offer. While there are moments that shine bright in the movie, but cannot provide much more to anyone else but children beside cute animals being voiced by veteran actors. I have seen this movie years prior, and had remembered various beats of the film, but my opinion of the movie stands: G-Force is very mediocre, and no amount of polish can save it from that state.