Entertaining most of the time but an ultimately very forgettable movie.

Rating: Null/10 (24 December 2014)

I'm not quite sure what this movie was trying to be but I watched it as a comedy. A Stan Lee comedy.
It starts out in 1988 and a young boy's mother is dying, then he is outside and a giant alien spacecraft abducts him.
Then the movie switches forward to present time, 26 or so years later, and the boy has grown to a 30-something Chris Pratt as Peter Quill on some planet far off in the galaxy. He has turned into some sort of mercenary who can retrieve things at the request of others.
Zoe Saldana, all in green skin makeup is his nemesis Gamora, who eventually warms up to Peter after he saves her from certain death in the vacuum of space.
There are a number of strange and dangerous characters, such as Dave Bautista as Drax, Vin Diesel voicing the tall, woody plant form known as Groot, Bradley Cooper voicing the short, raccoon-like creature known as Rocket, and a host of others.
The action goes from one strange planet to another, all the while playing up dialog for laughs when it could.
I'm not quite sure what to think of it, but one thing is certain, it gave my subwoofer a great work-out!