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  • Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy
  • Release Date: 07/24/2009
  • Running Time: 90 mins
  • Director: Hoyt Yeatman Jr.
  • Cast: Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan
  • Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
  • Writer: John Lee Hancock, Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Sellek Wibberley
  • Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
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Box Office

  1. Funny People, 23.4 mil, 0.0 mil
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 17.7 mil, 255.5 mil
  3. G-Force, 17.1 mil, 66.5 mil
  4. The Ugly Truth, 13.0 mil, 54.5 mil
  5. Aliens in the Attic, 7.8 mil, 0.0 mil
  6. Orphan, 7.2 mil, 26.8 mil
  7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, 5.3 mil, 181.8 mil
  8. The Hangover, 5.1 mil, 255.8 mil
  9. The Proposal, 4.8 mil, 148.9 mil
  10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 4.6 mil, 388.1 mil
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

G-Force

The premise, punched-up puns, and character development are more lightweight than the helium balloons in Up, but Disney's new CGI-heavy excuse to flood the market with kiddie merch (it's the year's first 3-D commercial, and we're the real guinea pigs) has a box-office trick up its shallow sleeve: Jerry Bruckheimer. Amping up the Beverly Hills Chihuahua formula with a whole A-team of adorable, talking furballs who converse in one-liners and pop-culture references (Apocalypse Now and Scarface, really?), the mega-producer's stamp is on every fight sequence, explosion, and ugly stereotype. I'm referring to Blaster, one of the genetically modified guinea pigs in G-Force�a federally funded team of elite animal operatives�who is literally black, speaks in buffoonish jive, and is voiced by Tracy Morgan ("Holla!"). Pen�lope Cruz plays the spicy she-pig Juarez, but more embarrassing is Zach Galifianakis, apparently still hungover and forced to show his live-action mug as the nerdy Dr. Dolittle who commands the squad with voice-recognition hardware. Together, along with a fly, a mole, and the competent direction of longtime F/X supervisor Hoyt Yeatman Jr., these charmless happy-meal avatars must battle evil industrialist Bill Nighy and his sentient consumer-electronics robot, which looks exactly like a junkyard Decepticon. From recycled trash to inevitable blockbuster gold, Bruckheimer is the true transformer. — Aaron Hillis

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