Too much and not enough

Rating: 6/10 (2 August 2014)

There's a lot of information thrown at you in the beginning, planet names and bad guy names and goody guy names and names and names and names. Fortunately most of this isn't important. All you need to know is that there's an orb that everyone wants (the old McGuffin thing).
There's a lot of action in this movie and the characters are unique and funny and that's okay but the main story, "Everyone wants this orb" was just really underwhelming to me.
The stuff in the prison wasn't bad and I liked the escape.
Did they need TWO big boss bad guys (Ronan and Thanos)? The conflict with the two sisters was kind of irritating too. Zoe Saldana looked like she just walked off the set of "Avatar" and was playing the same character.
I know a lot of people love the old songs (which were OKAY) but I think the movie's obsession with them was a little distracting. I get it, they remind Quill of his mother, but the tape would have worn out long ago and, truth be told, he'd probably get sick of those songs after 26 years.
Vin Diesel and Glenn Close were both kind of wasted in this.
It wasn't a BAD movie but there was just so much work put into service of a mediocre story. The same complaint I had of "Avatar".