Review: G-Force (Hoyt Yeatman)

Yesterday afternoon I went to see G-Force with kanja177 and nateprentice's children. I'd seen the trailer with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last weekend and wasn't expecting much. So I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be half kiddie movie and half deadpan send-up of all those eighties-nineties-oughties action flicks starring actual humans. ( Read more... )

I can't recommend this film to adults for solo viewing -- there's really not enough entertainment for the mature mind to enjoy without a kid in tow -- but if you do take a kid to see it, you probably won't find yourself falling asleep partway through (if only because the soundtrack never lets UP) and may wish to clue said kid in to the nature of the humor, as appropriate.

kanja177, herself a guinea pig owner, would probably wish me to pass on the information that, despite what the film suggests, guinea pigs are not built to roll around in balls and wheels like hamsters; their backs won't take it. This has been a public service announcement.