Guardians Of The Galaxy Review
We open in 1988, a scared little boy is alone in a hospital. His mother is dying and she tells him his father will come for him one day, saying that he was an angel made of light. She then passes and he runs out and a light appears from on high and takes the child.
Cut to twenty-six years later and the boy grows up to be a treasure hunter of worlds, going into tombs of far off planets and taking what booty he can find. He is known as Star Lord, mostly by himself. He is played by Chris Pratt and since the Lego movie I have been looking forward to this performance. He is very funny with tongue-in-cheek delivery and the right amount of dryness. He comes with a rather cool retractable mask, jet boots and his cassette tape from his time as a boy.
Speaking of his tape, the soundtrack is virtually a character itself. All the tracks are classics and very well selected for the mood of the film and the scene where their played. There’s variety in well known classics to some more hidden gems, Hooked on a feeling, Cherrybomb, Moonage Daydream are all a joy to listen to.
His antics eventually get him thrown in prison where he has to team up with some of the most unlikely comrades you can imagine. Rocket (Bradley Cooper) is a genetically altered specimen, he looks a lot like a raccoon (but that's just a coincidence), he loves to make bombs and shoot big guns. His partner is Groot (Vin Diesel), my favorite, a sentient tree that can only say "I am Groot" and has a rather expressive face, being that its wood. Gamora (Zoe Saldanna), the adoptive daughter of Thanos a deadly assassin that would rather not kill anybody but it doesn't workout that way. She also keeps the Star Trek tradition of having our main character seduce a green woman. Finally there is Drax the destroyer, a revenge driven psycho that wants to kill Ronan for killing his family. Dave Batista plays Drax and he has no place speaking in this movie, this is another wrestler turned actor and and its obvious, he has great physicality and it should have ended there but he like everyone else gets his share of dialog.
Against them are Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) an alien overlord that wields a giant hammer and will inflict his frustration on anyone. Nebula (Karen Gillan) the other adoptive daughter of Thanos and the more sadistic one, killing anyone with as much pain as she can inflict and taking pleasure in it. Michael Rooker plays Yondu, a blue faced space-hillbilly with a metal Mohawk and an arrow that everyone seems to fear when he draws it and with good reason.
The visuals of the movie are the most impressive. The sets all have a feel and personality to them and looked realized and lived in. The C.G.I. is sharp and colorful with well executed robots and nebula's serving as a backdrop for these characters. The range of visuals are also great to see, there are directing choices that are reminiscent of Indiana Jones, Star Lords ship is like the Millennium Falcon, Ronan, as well as his headquarters looks like something out of Prometheus.
If I had to sum up this movie as simply as possible I would say "wise-ass". From the writing, to the attitude of the filming. Everything the characters say or do is followed up by wise-ass cracks from the other characters about what they've said or done. Writer Director James Gunn obviously couldn't resist putting these in and there are times when you really do wish these people could get through one conversation without having to pick apart something the other said.
Stay for the end credits. All I will say is that you will not be able to predict it.
This is not a movie where the plot will take you to new places and redefine how movies can be played out. But the execution is so well done that the viewing becomes a journey that is just plain fun. It serves a tribute to great movies of the eighties as well as being its own entity.
Rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 4
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