Sometime in Earth’s future, Earth faces alien invasion.
Protecting the planet is a mission left to Dr. Brighthead and a team of five youths known as G-Force.
Yep. It’s another dub of Gatchaman, but this time done by Turner. You know, the company that has TBS, TNT, TMC, CNN, amongst other companies.
And this was even more Americanized in some ways than Battle of the Planets was.
Okay, there was no 7-Zark-7, but still it was bad.
In BotP, the names were Americanized, but it wasn’t to bad. There the names were Princess, Tiny, Keyop, Mark, and Jason.
In G-Force, we have Ace Goodheart, Dirk Daring, Hoot Owl, Pee Wee, Dr. Brighthead.
And then there was the acting.
With the exception of one actor, Cam Clarke (better known as Max Sterling or Lancer) as Dirk Daring, most of the acting was very, very flat.
And even though Cam Clarke was better than the rest of the talent, he still wasn’t really trying that hard.
The only really good thing this has over BotP is the simple fact that they kept the original Gatchaman story elements intact, and made it seem like a much truer translation of the original series.
But what made it a true torture to watch was one piece of music.
The background music for the theme song.
With the exception of brief interludes of the original Gatchaman score, that theme was looped constantly for the entire episode.
Now, remember, this is Turner Broadcasting, and even back in the 80’s they weren’t broke.
They could have afforded a new score composed.
Heck, even Harmony Gold, who still isn’t nearly as big as Turner was back then, could afford to have new music composed for Robotech.
Gah!
And then there was the cheesy dialogue (audio).
I actually liked Battle of the Planets better than this, because while BotP had a stupid robot, at least it wasn’t the same piece of bad Synth music looped for 20 minutes.
And because of that, I’m only going to give G-Force 1 Yo-Yo out of 5.