Guardians Of The Galaxy

Yikes!  What an awesome soundtrack and the action is pretty good, too.  I can’t wait for this to come out on disc to watch it over and over again.  Yep, I thought it was that good.  My movie obsession is not with the heroes of this film, but with the pseudo ultimate villain, Ronan, played by Lee Pace.  That man is a tall, good looking drink of water in my book.  He just is.  Now, let’s get back to the film and the “Guardians”.  We have a kid who grows into a space bandit with a huge bounty on his head, a green badass lady assassin, a tattooed hulk bent on revenge, a genetically modified raccoon, and Groot, the living breathing vegetarian Marvel Comics version of a Wookie that utters the following sentence throughout the film:  “I am Groot”.   Although you can’t see them, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel are sort of the Han Solo and Chewbacca characters, Chris Pratt is the Luke Skywalker stand-in, Zoe Saldana is not exactly a Princess Leia substitute – but she is the “girl” and more like a female version of Thor-lite, and Dave Batista, as Drax the Destroyer, is the only main character that doesn’t conjure up Star Wars references to me.  I saw some things that made me think of a couple of Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi films and definitely felt the presence of the Star Trek force without blatant plagiarism from any and all of the present or past films.  It was bloody good fun movie.  Rating:  I am Groot (translation – 4 stars)