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G-Force trailer
by jerry
December 31, 2008 12:30 pm


Silly me! I thought the forthcoming live action G-Force film from Disney was an adaptation of of the anime series Battle of the Planets. Instead it’s another hybrid live action/CG talking animals movie - but this time it looks pretty funny!

12/31/08  1:15pm
C.Edwards says:

I’m just glad I don’t have kids, so I never have to see this crap.

12/31/08  1:22pm
yoob says:

please kill me

12/31/08  1:34pm

I couldn’t agree more with that last line in the trailer.

12/31/08  1:43pm
John S says:

Louden Wainwright!!!

12/31/08  1:59pm

It’s like “Cats & Dogs” combined with those Blockbuster Video commercials featuring the CGI guinea pig. And I’m not saying that’s a good thing, by any stretch.

12/31/08  2:05pm
Ted says:

G-Force was not an adaptation of Battle of the Planets; it was a parallel adaptation (7 years after BOTP) of the same underlying material (Gatchaman), tho Sandy Frank was involved in both. Then there was Eagle Riders, another parallel adaptation, but of Gatchaman II and Gatchaman F instead of Gatchaman.

12/31/08  2:37pm
Kevin says:

Zach Galifianakis and Will Arnett? Sign me up!

12/31/08  3:05pm

This is going to be even better than Delgo.
I’m really looking forward to it.

12/31/08  3:13pm
PJ says:

I feel like this is the perfect opportunity to suggest that anyone who has not seen the two-part episode of South Park called “Pandemic” Googles it and watches it right now.

Far better and more imaginative use of guinea pigs than this.

12/31/08  3:16pm
Andrew says:

Why would they call it G-force if everyone will mistake it for something else, only to be violently shocked when they find out it’s not?!

12/31/08  3:54pm
charles says:

I’d like to meet the kind of people who would write such a script. And then the people who liked it so much that they thought millions of dollars should be invested in it. I just don’t get where this kind of thing comes from.

12/31/08  4:24pm
Marc Baker says:

No thanks. This is one movie i plan to avoid in 2009! Even if these animals were dressed in the Gatchaman bird suits, i still wouldn’t see this trash! Clearly, Jerry Bruckhimer is a big hack, and this movie proves it!

12/31/08  4:38pm
Gobo says:

The mole’s voiced by Nicholas Cage? It sounds nothing like him at all!

12/31/08  4:47pm
Anime says:

It insults not only the fans, but the Japanese who made the anime as well.

12/31/08  5:46pm
Frank says:

The blackface guinea pig played by Tracy Morgan made me laugh. Ha. Funny. Ha.

12/31/08  6:10pm
Tom Pope says:

Jerry, you so cray-zee!

12/31/08  7:18pm
sean w says:

OW! MY EYES!!!

crime against nature, indeed!

12/31/08  10:43pm
Ted says:

It doesn’t insult the Japanese who made the anime; G-Force was not the Japanese name. If they called it Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman…
(And if the guinea pigs were in Gatchaman outfits, Tatsunoko dug that grave themselves with Gatchapin a couple of years ago, but that was turtles, not guinea pigs.)

12/31/08  11:38pm
Peter says:

Uh, when does it get funny?

12/31/08  11:57pm
Steve Gattuso says:

This may do for cavies what “Howard the Duck” did for waterfowl.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

01/1/09  2:13am
TJR says:

No sir. I don’t like it.

01/1/09  2:20am
German S. says:

I was so excited when I heard about this project because of the possible reinterpretations of yoshitaka amano’s designs (final fantasy designer). who would have thought that they would have been so liberal during the redesign phase!

01/1/09  3:51am
Sam Filstrup says:

Who lets these ideas off the ground floor?

01/1/09  3:51am
Mark Morgan says:

This is why Disney should not be allowed anywhere near live action! Or at the very least, should not be allowed around live action with CG animals. I will say it looks more appealing than that horrible Chihauhau movie they made, but that doesn’t mean it looks appealing.

In the end I kept thinking the same thing. This looks like the adventures of the Rescue Ranger’s stupid, uninteresting cousins. ‘Sigh’, oh for the days of Disney Afternoon. ‘Sniff’ I miss Goliath and the gang.

WHY DISNEY!!! WHY!!!

01/1/09  1:29pm
Cadychan says:

‘Looks pretty funny’? Sorry Jerry, but I’m definitely going to have to miss this one. =P

01/1/09  2:41pm

No one hates these hybrid films (Racing Stripes, Underdog, etc.) more than I, but this trailer seems to have a sense of humor I didn’t detect from those other films (maybe I’m wrong; you can’t really judge a flick like this from its trailer). Will Arnett is funny. When this thing comes out, if it sucks I’ll be the first to admit it.

As to why Disney would make this movie: just remember Beverly Hills Chihuahua made over 93 million in the U.S.

01/1/09  3:56pm
Marc Baker says:

‘In the end I kept thinking the same thing. This looks like the adventures of the Rescue Ranger’s stupid, uninteresting cousins. ‘Sigh’, oh for the days of Disney Afternoon. ‘Sniff’ I miss Goliath and the gang. WHY DISNEY!!! WHY!!!’

You took the words right out of my mouth. I say that the pencil animators who were fired by the mouse should demand their jobs back, and save us from this live action/CGI crap!

01/1/09  4:02pm
Inkan1969 says:

Eh, where’s my recipe for cuy? :-)

01/1/09  5:06pm
ITHIDET says:

In some cultures Guinea pigs are a delicacy. I wish i was among their number.

01/1/09  5:40pm
Rob says:

People are actually addicted to this stuff?

01/1/09  7:56pm
Sara says:

This movie has some awesome people in it. The cast is pretty ridiculous. Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Sam Rockwell, Bill Nighy?!

It can’t be all bad…

01/1/09  10:09pm
Don says:

I bet this will make a ton of money, and in a year or two we’ll be asking “why, Disney, why?” all over again. The answer will always be…. MONEY. c’mon 93 million dollars for beverly hills chihuahua, thats a no brainer, when is the sequel to that coming out. Truth is for every person on here that thinks this movie is dumb and stupid, there are probably 10 kids in school talking to their friends about the cool new movie called G-Force. I for one will probably be in the theaters with my little nephews who just want to have fun watching a movie not questioning why it was made.

01/2/09  12:37am
Graham says:

Sorry…the whole talking animals and pop music with hipster language thrown in is kinda not doing it for me.

01/2/09  9:46am

I was pretty turned off by those “cute” critters, but it’s Disney’s first live film in 3D, I have to see it. Plus I got to work with directer Hoyt Yeatman years ago when he ran DeamQuest. Early in his carreer he made a really funny parody of Harryhausen’s 7th Voyage of Sinbad with the creature making his victim watch him perform “Singing in the Rain”. That plus the casting, I’m open to it.

01/2/09  11:30am

Could the “Black” one have possibly have been any more buffoonish? This is a mess

01/3/09  1:10am

YES! Guinea Pigs vs. Transformers!

I probably won’t myself see this… But I suspect I’m not in quite the demographic for it. That doesn’t necessarily make it bad, or good, just not what I’d bother seeing.

As for why Disney makes live-action films… well, they can’t all be
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Mary Poppins, Davy Crockett, Old Yeller, Tron or Pirates of the Carribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.

01/3/09  7:54am
Jason says:

Screw nature, this is a crime against audiences.

Disney dumps Narnia and produces this pile of hamster pellets. Let me be the first to say it: Igers sucks as much as Eisner did. Oh, I’m too late? Crap!

01/3/09  4:27pm
Person says:

Not to be confused with the ACTUAL movie that was supposed to adapt “G-Force”, IMAGI’s Gatchman, which now seems to be in an uncertain situation: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-01-03/auditors-concerned-for-imagi-funds-for-films-after-astro-boy.

01/4/09  5:07am
Daryl T says:

Err, has anyone noticed that this is basically a live-action version of Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.

07/19/09  4:15pm
Lucy P says:

I was born in the 80’s ,so I grew up with the classic Disney channel and movies,but I recently saw the trailer to G-Force and it looks like crap I’m not just saying that cause I’m in 20’s .I don’t know why Disney feels the need to make animals into superheroes like with Underdog(which thankfully I have never had to see).I’m sorry,but except for a few movies like the Chronicles of Narnia ,Disney has not put out a decent movie in a while .This is one movie i will not see ever,I will not even rent it for the students at my school when it comes out on dvd

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