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Forget James Bond. He’s nothing more than a human with a tag line. According to Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer the new guy in town is named Darwin and he’s a guinea pig. This is a creature I’m familiar with having had one many years ago. His name was Melvin and he had his charms. If only Melvin had lived long enough to see G-Force. Just seeing the pictures of the G-Force team with their many gadgets would have made the little guy proud.

Melvin lived a sheltered life in a big cage with a wheel, plenty of food and water and outside excursions. But the guinea pigs of G-Force lead lives of boundless adventure with guinea pig size underwater jet skis and expertise in espionage.

The plot is simple. Bad guy billionaire, Leonard Saber, Bill Nighy, wants to take over the world. Is there a bad guy who doesn’t want to take over the world? Anyway, see, he builds a mechanized army to accomplish the world taking over task and there’s only one band of small heroes who can save us. That would be the G-Force, G for Guinea pig, get it? These little rodents are prepared for anything. Darwin, Sam Rockwell and Juarez, Penelope Cruz, are ready to jump in and take down the evil Saber and his mechanized minions. The guinea pigs are aided by Bucky the Hamster, Steve Buscemi, Mooch the fly, who doesn’t talk and Speckles the Mole, Nicholas Cage.

The idea of guinea pig heroes came from director Hoyt Yeatman’s son. Bruckheimer says he fell in love with the idea. Darwin doesn’t have a tricked out Austin Martin or a bevy of beauties at his beck and call,but I suspect he and Juarez become a couple at the end. Darwin does have a gadget to control all kinds of other gadgets including night vision goggles, soldering goggles and a blow torch.

This Disney live action/CGI feature will be at a theater near you July 24, 2009. Photos courtesy of USA Today.

What do you think about guinea pigs as the new Delta Force? If not guinea pigs what other animals could save the world?