{"id":13227,"date":"2010-08-14T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/08\/14\/13227.html"},"modified":"2010-08-14T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T20:10:15","slug":"review-g-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/08\/14\/review-g-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: G-Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saw a preview for <cite>G-Force<\/cite> a while back, and it looked like it might be fun.<\/p>\n<p>Later, someone (perhaps Twig?) told me it was no good. But I wanted to watch something fluffy this afternoon, and everything I have out from Netflix is dark to the point of grimness, and this movie was available for streaming from Netflix, so I started watching it.<\/p>\n<p>By 15 minutes in, it was clearly no good. I skimmed through the rest of it, watching a few seconds or a minute here and there, and then watched the last 10 or 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few cute moments and cute lines in the bits I saw, but nothing special. Not worth watching. A fairly good cast (Nicolas Cage, Bill Nighy, Sam Rockwell, Pen&eacute;lope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Traci Morgan) is wasted on this material.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually for a Bruckheimer movie, there are not one but <em>four<\/em> female characters, two of whom are sympathetic. (Only one of them gets significant screen time, but at least she's a tough actiony type. Though a fair bit of time is devoted to discussion of which of the males she's interested in.) I was amused to see that it even gets a technical pass on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bechdeltest.com\/\">Bechdel\/Wallace test<\/a>; for example, Penny, the little girl, says to Juarez, the tough female guinea pig, &ldquo;Don't you look pretty?&rdquo; (and there are a couple of other similarly inconsequential and arguably not-about-men lines from one female character to another at other points in the movie).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think my reaction can be summed up by saying that, as usual in movies with three talking mice who speak in unison, the mice are the best part.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a preview for G-Force a while back, and it looked like it might be fun. Later, someone (perhaps Twig?)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}