DON the snazzy, plastic spectacles for producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s first 3-D film, which proves that, if you want a job done properly, hire a team of guinea pigs.
Screening in the eye-popping format in selected cinemas and 2-D everywhere else, G-Force is a light-hearted romp laden with gizmos including jet-propelled rodent balls that allow the cuddly characters to swerve through traffic in the film’s centrepiece action sequence.
“We need back-up! Tell them we’re in pursuit of three guinea pigs in mobile spheres,” barks an FBI agent, charged with stopping the furry operatives, as director Hoyt H Yeatman Jr keeps the tone light.
The turbo-charged screenplay panders to the short attention-span of children by packing as many thrills and spills and poop gags into 88 minutes as is possible.
However, there are a few concessions to parents, such as a verbal nod to Die Hard when one heroic guinea pig attacks a killer espresso machine yelling, “Yippee ki-yay coffeemaker!”
Kids will whoop at each explosion and pratfall, while parents should steel themselves for the inevitable pleas from their excitable offspring about buying a real guinea pig.
