Guardians of the Galaxy, o Star Wars wannabe

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2014)

My fears were confirmed, the Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) is but a paltry Star Wars wannabe.
As is my habit I have not seen the movie trailer and kept me away from the reviews of it to keep my neutral expectations. So today still is almost impossible not to hear sound bites of a blockbuster of this scale and I was noticing that the views of the guys I follow on social networks was a little divided.
There are two things that even I do not want to end up weighing on my analysis in this movie, I'm a big fan of the films of the Star Wars saga and I am increasingly tired of superhero films (Marvel / DC Comics). Still tried to abstract me these facts and be fair to the film.
Starting with the director and writer, James Gunn, who is this guy? I asked myself. Only after I have seen the movie that I search for him and his resume is not anything special, noted that wrote the Scobby-Doo's and the Dawn of the Dead (2004), films those who did not impress me whit, such like this Guardians of the Galaxy.
As for the soundtrack, the director gave him a lot of emphasis in history and is basically made up of songs from the 60's and 70's I recognized much of the music but the one I really like is the Cherry Bomb from The Runaways. I even like movies with this kind of soundtrack, but in my opinion here did not work very well.
Regarding the cast, another negative point, there lacked a lot of chemistry between the main characters, especially in the romance between Peter Quill and Gamora.  Chris Pratt as Peter Quill - Who?  Zoe Saldanha as Gamora - They could have chosen a more talented or more beautiful actress, or maybe both.  Vin Diesel as Groot - I am Groot.  Dave Bautista as Drax - I am muscle.  Bradley Cooper as Rocket - The character that I liked more.
But the argument does not captivated me too, a story like so many others with the usual cliché's. The mood is present throughout the film and the jokes are easy, too easy in my opinion. With regard to the romance as I said earlier, there is no chemistry between the Quill and Gamora. I wish this movie had been a little more attractive for my brain cells, this Guardians of the Galaxy is fast food, give us that feeling of full stomach but devoid of essential nutrients.
But everything is bad in this film, the special effects are top of the best I've seen, the animation of the Rocket and Groot are fantastic, and the spacecraft and the scenes in space. So good it almost made me want the whole film was an animation, although here also weigh enough that the cast be weak.
I began this piece saying that the Guardians of the Galaxy is a paltry Star Wars wannabe, then why? As I a fan-boy of Star Wars, I could not help noticing numerous parallels with this movie. The Groot is clearly the Chewbacca, is big, brown and says nothing special. In Peter Quill and Rocket see there a lot of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker divided by the two characters. In the bad guys idem, Ronan is the Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine is Thanos. Maybe ordinary mortals do not see much of Star Wars in this Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but for someone like me who knows very well the Star Wars saga will notice that the director went to get a lot of inspiration to George Lucas's work, is not it is a bad thing, just that he could have done to make the film better and did not succeed.
Finally, the Guardians of the Galaxy is not a cheap movie, only it is when compared to Star Wars, but it's not a great movie as it turns around so many people say. Note that not penalized the final note of this movie just because I thought it was a Star Wars wannabe, not just captivated me anything. Expected a bit more from this movie and I ended up quite disappointed.
Meh [5/10] ★★★★★ ✩✩✩✩✩