The movie:
- Audience-Alienating Premise: A live-action film about talking secret agent guinea pigs that takes itself dead seriously.
- Awesome Music: One of its only saving graces is its excellent score by Trevor Rabin, not to mention a great selection of songs including The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow", Lady Gaga's "Just Dance", Flo Rida's "Jump", The Pussycat Dolls' "Don't Cha", and Jesse Mc Cartney's "How Do You Sleep?".
- Cliché Storm: Not the most original family-oriented action film out there.
- Fridge Logic: Speckle's side plan involves tearing up the earth's terrain so bad humans can't live on it. Yeah, as if moles could live in uninhabitable soil either.
- Magnificent Bastard: Speckles is the technologically gifted support specialist for G-Force, using his position to hide his villainous intentions. Having lost his family at a young age to humans, Speckles swore vengeance on humanity as a whole, and decides to twist Leonard Saber's technology to his desires by disguising himself as "Mr. Yanshu" and infecting all Saber technology with his coding virus. Faking his death to fool G-Force, Speckles initiates "Project Clusterstorm" to turn all Saber technology against humans, coming close to succeeding in his goals to drive humankind underground for vengeance before realizing the error of his ways and helping to save the world out of care for his team.
- One True Threesome: What Darwin and Blaster are hoping to become with Juarez, who likes them both.
- Questionable Casting: Penélope Cruz is in this low-brow family film with talking guinea pigs? And so is Nicolas Cage?!
- Retroactive Recognition: This would not be the only film to feature Sam Rockwell and guinea pigs. The irony is that here, Rockwell is a guinea pig hero instead of a being cast against a guinea pig villain.
- So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus about the film is that it's a harmless action-comedy, but relies too much on clichés and Toilet Humor and brings nothing special to the table.
- Tear Jerker: When Ben explains to Darwin, Blaster, Juarez and Speckles all about their troubled pasts prior to rescuing them and becoming G-Force.Darwin: I was a runt? I never even had a chance.
The video game:
- Goddamned Bats: Optical mice & waffle irons take on this role throughout the game.
- Good Bad Bugs: Apparently due to a programming oversight non-automated vacuum cleaners can actually kill paper shredders
, the latter of which are only supposed to be vulnerable to motion sensor lasers. - No Problem with Licensed Games: The videogame, a third-person shooter with RPG elements, got a much warmer reception than the movie did.
