Better than most, but could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (4 August 2014)

Marvel is their own worst enemy. Any ideas in this movie that were good, and there were more than most of thee Marvel movies, they don't get any credit for them. All claps go to James Gunn, his actors and his Chewbacca/Han Solo destroying duo of Rocket and Groot. Yes I said it. Give those two their own movie already.
I've seriously lost count how many times we have seen this battle fortress ending in a movie, let alone Marvel movies. Yes yet another movie with a flying fortress air ship battle lifted from Return of the Jedi. Look Jedi was the first movie I ever saw. It is burned into my head when I saw it more than 30 years ago and it made this type of action finale what it is today and at this point, there is no reason to do it again. But Marvel keeps digging it up. I don't even give two clasps about Thanos this or Ronan that gobbledygook garbage. That stuff is clearly pushed into the script in heavy portions by the Marvel heads when Gunn was clearly onto something all by himself. There are many many other ways to end a movie without that freaking clichÃ©, but I guess the CG for this stuff is prefab. Despite all these misgivings, the movie does succeed.
The ridiculous Ronan seems lifted directly from Animal House's Neidermeyer, the movie really lacks any sense of suspense but the exchanges of the Guardians anchor the movie with Mo- Town and 70s pop muzak. Somewhere in there is a better movie without air fortress battles and "there's to many of them" quotes lifted from Star Wars, but you'll laugh enough to pay for the ticket.