In a nondescript little warehouse, a super-special team called G-Force trains day and night for the government spy work ahead of it. Its members have the newest cutting edge computers, the most whiz-bang high-tech espionage equipment, the latest in guinea pig-to-human language decoders.
 I did mention this was a special team, right?
Making up this secret squad of sleuths are, well, several guinea pigs and an actual mole. There's Darwin, the determined leader; Blaster, the weapons expert; and Juarez, the female martial arts pro. Speckles is the computer genius mole, and Mooch the camera-laden fly rounds out the crew as the reconnaissance expert.
These undercover critters are just about to jump into the spy game when word comes that the FBI is pulling their funding. The group's human handler, Ben, is shocked and decides his team must prove its worth. So he sends his furry force in to grab secrets from a computer chip mogul who's suspected to have gone to the dark side.
Much to their surprise, the rodents uncover a dastardly scheme called Clusterstorm that could result in global extinction. FBI bigwigs, however, don't believe any of it and the tiny spies end up under a "For Sale" sign at a local pet store. Do they give up? Don't bet your exterminator's salary on it! These furtive fur balls are determined to save the world—all on their own if they have to.
As long as they can avoid becoming (gulp!) pets.
:: Review
I can't tell you the number of times I've finished watching a movie and realized that I should have saved every one of my 350 bob: After all, I had already seen the film's funniest bits in the preview trailer.
You know where this is going, don't you? If you've seen the trailer for G-Force, you've seen everything that passes for laugh makers in this flick. Don't brand me a spoilsport for telling the truth: "Poop in his hand! Poop in his hand!" is the height of hilarity here.
Now, I'll ease back a bit and say the movie does have its cute moments and does say some light-but-positive things about being in a family. Hurley, for instance, openly longs to be a family member, and he rejoices when it happens. And the guinea pigs do act heroically, which isn't always a given with today's antihero leanings (even in kids' movies). I can also attest that the toilet humor doesn't really get any nastier than the already mentioned scatological outcry.
If, however, that sounds like fairly faint praise, well, there it is. Except for the CGI detail—the glass shards, coffee beans and guinea pigs that routinely fly at the audience in the 3-D version—this movie feels a lot like a middle-of-the-road Saturday morning cartoon. No profoundly provocative life lessons. No stirring emotional involvement. Even the famous actors who voice the animated characters sound fairly unenthused—and they didn't even see the trailer first.
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