Wow. This movie is fun. Just a big ball of fun for about 2 hours. Honestly, I was a little worried about this movie. It's characters that aren't that well-known, with actors that I personally don't care for in most movies, and this is another one in a long line of Marvel movies that are starting to get a little formulaic. Throw in the non-stop media barrage about this movie and it gave me some pause.
But this movie is just so much fun.
I enjoyed just about everything about it. It's a total cheesefest, but that's why I liked it so much! The Marvel Universe movies are about the big action. Iron Man and Captain America does have that level of humor, but it's mostly about the drama. Guardians of the Galaxy is all about the comedy. That's not to say there isn't some great action, but it's secondary to the comedy. Come on! One of the characters is a gadgeteering anthropomorphic raccoon hauling around a BFG!
What worked so well and what pushed this movie along is The Guardians. Five colorful and well fleshed-out characters that you want to keep following. They are hilarious. They are fun. We're rocking out with Starlord listening to classic rock. Groot has his one sentence he repeats (I am Groot) that is a standard sentence that means just anything. And the rest of the team seems to understand instinctively what he's really saying. We got the sexy green assassin with a tragic past. And then we have the brick of the team who his species is incapable of taking a joke or speaking with a filter. If you're making Dave Bautista fun and interesting, you're doing MANY things right.
The biggest reason to see this movie is that it continues the overall story arc with the Infinity Gems. This one is the purple "Space" gem. The way they portray it is different from the comics. This gem if slammed into the ground can destroy an entire planet's ecosystem and kill everything on it. That is why Ronin wants it. He's a genocidal religious terrorist who wants to wipe out all life defended by the Nova Corps. (When are we going to see Nova by the way?) All the while we have this story crossing in the path of Thanos. So this is only going to get better.
Got to see this movie. It's just a ton of fun.
Stay after the final credits for what could possibly be the funniest and best cameos so far.
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