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Guardians of the Galaxy is a Five Star movie. It does what a movie is supposed to do. It entertains. This movie also manages to enthrall, amuse, amaze, delight and enlighten, and it seems to do all of these things with a light, deft hand.
As the kind of kid who read Warlock and Silver Surfer back in the Seventies, just the fact that I'm watching the world of Kirby and Starlin being enacted in blockbuster style on the big screen is a dream come true. That Marvel was wise enough to use the Abnett/Lanning material as a springboard is icing on the cake. The quality of those characters and their designs was so solid that the movie just needed to not suck.
Guardians of the Galaxy is a great comic book space opera action movie. One might even say an object lesson in how to make an excellent one. A fun, funny, exciting, action-filled, character-driven movie with some great takes on some of my favorite Marvel characters, from Drax to Gamora to Thanos to Yondu to Ronan the Accuser. Old school King Kirby style Cosmic Marvel goodness served up as a Losers/Suicide Squad "works well with other sociopaths" barn-burner.
It even gives Marvel Movie fans a chance to bone up on the Cosmic Corner of the Marvel Universe, since it will certainly need to play a larger role in the Marvel Movies, to give the heroes ever more dangerous foes, and continually up the stakes from Metropolitan to Planetary to Cosmic and Multi-Universal.
This is how it's done. My friends who like good movies loved this, comic book fans or not. Science fiction fans or not. Space opera fans or not. If you like good movies, you may like this Really Good movie. One might even say great.
Five Stars: Really Good
Category 2: People Power
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