More of the same

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) is without doubt a fun movie. The characters are entertaining, the blend of action and comedy is good, the use of 70s pop music on the soundtrack is brilliant, and there is enough story to keep you involved in what's going on. However, the Indiana Jones and Star Wars comparisons? I don't fully buy into those after actually watching the movie.
For me, GOTG was a more entertaining version of The Avengers (2012), but it's still your run-of-the-mill comic book blockbuster. It's all banter and overblown action moving at terrible speed. The villain Ronin was bland and the plot was all based around an all-powerful MacGuffin orb. It takes visuals from Star Wars and has some of the fun action you would see in an older Indiana Jones movie, but I would not put any of it in the same league. The movie starts losing steam about an hour and a half in.
In conclusion, this is like any other comic book movie from the past five years. It's fun for one watch, but I have no desire to go back to it or see the sequel.