The Quintessential Summer Movie for 21st Century America

Rating: 10/10 (19 August 2015)

GotG! This . . .this pop cultural blitzkrieg of a film:
singlehandedly made Walkmans, cassette decks, mix tapes, canoeing T-shirts, and late 70s mellow-rock relevant again;
created the best "live action" CGI characters yet in the forms of Rocket and Groot;
introduced an impressive amount of plausible-looking sci-fi tech gear into the overall sci-fi canon (pyramidal gravity snares, anyone?);
did a much better job than any prior Marvel film of introducing the Outer Space-based realm of the Marvel milieu to the audience, making it seem appealing and addictive, and not lame;
turned Dave Bautista into a comedic film actor and Chris Pratt into the new Harrison Ford;
gave Michael Rooker a (much deserved) magnum opus supporting actor role;
proved that Zoe Saldana is just about the most gifted actor of her generation (now if only she can get out of the spaceships and into more Oscar-bait roles);
used cameos by big name actors ably, avoiding the re-entry of disbelief that accompanies over-casting roles.
How did one movie do all of these things?
GotG is just THAT good.
GotG. It's not a cult movie, it's not a COMIC-CON movie, or a cosplayers movie.
It is more valuable and democratic than that, it is, like Star Wars EP IV, Jurassic Park, Jaws, or The Hunt for Red October, a "best of class" type of film. For everyone's entertainment.
GotG oozes originality, humor, wonder, surprise, imagination, and self-deprecation. Even the mild cursing is endearing . . . somehow.
GotG! I don't know of a single person who has seen it who is not up for watching it, again, and again.