The group of outcasts includes a human, an alien can, a green woman, a talking raccoon, and a tree with a soul. Each of these members of the Guardians has a history, a mindset, and a future. Only by uniting them can the world be saved from evil.
An alien Indiana Jones, the adventurer Peter Quill discovers a valuable artifact during his travels on assignment that causes him more trouble than profit. The artifact is coveted by Ronan, who wants to destroy the world with it. Also, a bounty is placed on Quill, and so the Manhunters covet it.
The Manhunters include a raccoon and a tree. This mismatched pair, a dwarf and a giant, find him and cross paths with Gomorrah, the former daughter of Ronan, who has gone rogue. Nothing ends well and they end up in a prison where everyone wants to hurt them. During their escape, they find the last member of their group, who has his own personal reasons for killing Ronan.
Thankfully, this disparate fivesome doesn't have as many personal problems with their partners as the Avengers do, and everything flows smoothly towards saving the world.
I'm not going to think now about a director whose cinematic work I don't know, but rather about the actors and voice actors. It's become a habit of late that the only one capable of playing a pretty alien is Zoe Saldana. She was in Avatar, she's in Star Trek, and the role in this film is her third where she plays an alien. Perhaps she could appear in the new Star Wars movie, where she certainly wouldn't be out of place as Leia's daughter.
Rocket Raccoon is played/played by sexy man Bradley Cooper. I think he gave that smart intelligent male of the Procyon lotor species a lot of his charisma. Rocket is very short-tempered and doesn't go far to fire his carry-on/rocket launcher.
On the other hand, the Groot tree is completely calm in contrast to Rocket, doesn't get angry, and only has the three words "I am Groot" in his vocabulary. He's voiced by Vin Diesel, who certainly didn't kill much time with his character in the studio. More like one day where he said Groot's line, "I am......" a hundred times to express everything there is to express. It's a good thing Rocket understands Groot so he can explain to the rest of the party what Groot meant by "I am..."
The fourth to join the party is Drax the Destroyer. He's played by Dave Bautista, who, even with his six-foot, 130-pound frame and no tattoos, is a formidable opponent.
Last and foremost to the party is Peter Quill. A man from the planet Earth whose mother died, and was kidnapped in his younger days. He's played by Chris Pratt, who may have been born to play Star-Lord. A frivolous young man who takes a Walkman with him on his travels with his favorite songs.
Unfortunately, I don't have much positive to say for the negative characters. The main negative character, Ronon, is a salty bland nonentity. Maybe it's just the makeup, or maybe it's just the director. Who knows. The actor who plays him, Lee Pace, is not recognizable to me at all. It didn't occur to me at all that this actor has anything to do with The Hobbit, where he plays the elf Thranduil. Unfortunately, as in The Last Thor, the negative character pays the price for Tom Hiddleston, who, over the course of three films, has managed to play his character so perfectly that he's considered the best bad guy in years.
Unfortunately, Ronon is also just a meadow, like Loki in The Avengers. The main creator of evil is again Thanos, who is dubbed by Josh Brolin. Unfortunately the whole character is CGI so it's a big shame that he's not played by an actor and that only CGI. Perhaps for next time, it would be handy if the producers decided that Thanos could be played by a masked actor.
But let's not forget the main female negative character. 
She is Nebula, the daughter of Ronon. She's genetically altered, making her invulnerable. I'm glad the filmmakers chose an unknown actress for the world. She is Karen Gillan, who is known as the Doctor's companion Amy Pond. I always wondered what happened to Amy when the Weeping Angels made her and her husband Rory disappear. They genetically altered her, cut her hair, painted her blue and threw her into a distant universe.
I'm done with the important characters and I'll get on with the music. The music was composed by Tyler Bates, who composed, for example, 300: The Battle of Thermopylae. The music is not memorable at all. In fact, the main component of the music is the song soundtracks that were around in the 80s. The whole movie is full of it and makes the whole movie more entertaining. Apparently, the rule of thumb is, if you don't have a good composer who can't compose a supporting theme, you choose a song score.
Just as the music is a reference to the 80s, so are the jokes a reference to the glorious 80s. From Walkman on down to a young Michael Jackson.
The whole film took me back to my early days, when music was better than it is now. Analog, full of guitars and love. Guardians of the Galaxy took its cue in part from the Star Wars franchise (IV - VI) as well. I'd actually like to see a modern Star Wars VII, what with J.J. Abrams will do. If it's as entertaining as Guardians of the Galaxy, I'll definitely give Star Wars VII a lot of percentages.
But within the Marvel universe, I have to give it less than Star Wars. For the fun, 80's jokes about a stunted raccoon vrs. ignorance of human history, I give it 80%.
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Original release of this article July 12, 2021 – Kritiky.cz
