After the success achieved with the films of his most popular characters (and, especially, with The Avengers: The Avengers, the film that brought them together), Marvel looked deep into their archives to retrieve another group of superheroes: the Guardians of the Galaxy. Born in January 1969 and several subsequent attempts to recycling, these renegades regained some popularity in 2008 from Dan Abnett and comic Andy Lanning.
Then comes the film that the producer (owned by Disney) trying to launch a new series (and the sequel was announced to premiere in July 2017) and, therefore, a new platform for merchandising, franchising and byproducts. The good news is that Guardians of the Galaxy is a competent, friendly and effective film. The bad news is that except the irresistible Peter Quill who plays Chris Pratt (seen in the series Parks and Recreation) - there seems to be another character attractive enough to hold "individual" films, as if the have Iron Man, Thor or captain America.
But this time comparisons should be made more with Star Wars (not coincidentally another recent acquisition of the Disney group) rather than with The Avengers. Guardians of the Galaxy has more to do with aesthetics and tone of the creation of George Lucas with the style of Joss Whedon. Moreover, for its ongoing commitment to humor and premature nostalgia for the pop culture (citations Footloose or funny use of tracks like "Ooh Child" or "Cherry Bomb"), we are closer to an exponent of class B (with a budget of 170 million dollars, of course) that the typical solemn, pretentious, high impact overproduction.
In that sense, much has to do a love freak side of the genre film (and comic book aesthetics) professing the director and screenwriter James Gunn, formed in the hosts of producing low-budget fantasy film Troma and director of the cult film that is Super.
The story itself has no major findings or surprises. There is a prologue set in 1988 serving for the trauma the little Peter Quill after the death of his mother from cancer. The action jumps 26 with Peter (who was then known as Star-Lord) become thief and Don Juan. Like the other Marvel movies (remember the Tesseract) here is an orb (a sphere containing an unmanageable power) that pass from hand to hand and will be the germ of the conformation of the Guardians.
Besides Quill, integrate this team a fighting expert as Gamora (Zoe Saldana), a muscular giant like Drax (Dave Bautista) and two "digital" creatures: the tree Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel that simply says "I am Groot ") and cynical and smart raccoon Rocket raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper). And they are, of course, more or less bad (like the pirate Yondu include Michael Rooker) and very bad as Ronan (Lee Pace) and Thanos (Josh Brolin). And great actors in minor roles, like John C. Reilly, Glenn Close and Benicio Del Toro.
In short, Guardians of the Galaxy is not just a clever marketing commitment to expand business horizons but also a more than decent product with enough attractions and reading levels so that you can enjoy from kids to adults, from -clear - by this fundamental target for his faithfulness: teens.
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