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Form is given more mileage than content in comedy adventure G Force, writes Ervell E. Menezes
Armed with high-tech spy equipment Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell), Bluster (Morgan), Juarez (Penelope Cruz), Mooch, a fly that transmits video data, and Speckles (Nicholas Cage) are the G Force rescued and trained by Dr Ben (Zach Galifanakis) at a soon-to-be-closed-FBI covert government facility. In order to get a reprieve, Ben needs to convince the FBI of the wide-ranging abilities of the G Force. So the Force is asked to earn its stripes in an operation that prevents sycophantic machines from taking control over the earth. It’s a sort of cross between A Force and Transformers, the guinea pigs having to save the civilisation from an evil appliance czar, whose main goal is global domination. Not unexpectedly, it is a far-fetched plot but workable as they often do on celluloid. All in all, it is kids stuff and one is obliged to give one’s thinking faculties a break. Form is given more mileage than content and so the show goes on and on. Visual effects supervisor-turned-director Hoyt Yeatman Jr puts in an invigorating debut with this modestly primed, effusive entertainer. The swift opening sequence shows some dazzling visual effects created by holography and computer-generated stunts as the G Force infiltrates the estate of the cotteemaker king Leonard Saber (Bill Nighy) of Saberling technologies and stumble upon his plans to eradicate civilisation. There’s a fair bit of action, but hardly qualitative and all’s well that ends well in a rather laboured parable of good scoring over evil, but only just.
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Maybe
it all started with that impishly lovable Jerry who led that darn cat
(read Tom) to a merry dance but the rodent has often been a source of
fun and games on celluloid. Then there was Ratatouille. The
latest exercise is an amusing comedy adventure with a bunch of rodents
playing covertly trained government spies.