Star Trek and Star Wars had a baby who grew up and smoked weed with The Avengers. That's what Guardians of the Galaxy is.Guardians of the Galaxy follows the story of Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), who was taken from earth as a boy by space traders. In this movie he must protect an orb of infinite energy from the ruthless Ronan. If Peter and his group of misfits don't stop him, Ronan will kill billions of people.
It's a great superhero movie all around, I would say that I enjoyed it more than The Avengers. The acting is great, Bradley Cooper steals the show as Rocket Raccoon. All around, though, the acting is good, from Chris Pratt's definitive interpretation of Star-lord to Zoe Saldana as Gamora.
It's also one of the funniest movies I've seen this summer. The first half of the movie is almost a comedy. It's laugh-out-loud funny for the first forty five minutes to and hour, and then the tone turns more serious. They still crack jokes and one-liners, but the tone is more grim overall.
The characters and writing are great, and I got a little choked up at the end. It touches you, and is not just surface deep like most superhero movies. And come on, in what other movie do you have a raccoon whose best friend is a tree? I found myself worrying for the characters even when there was no present danger, because James Gunn makes you care so, so much about them that you really want them to be safe more than anything else.
Overall: 4 out of four stars. It's teh best movie I've seen to come out of 2014 (that said, I haven't seen Boyhood yet).
Reference scale:
Avengers < Guardians of the Galaxy < Is this the greatest comic book movie ever?
Have you seen Guardians of the Galaxy? If not, go see it now. Now. Why are you still on this blog? If you have, what do you think? Is this the greatest comic book movie of all time?
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