Great but not near The Avengers

Rating: 8/10 (30 August 2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy: 8/10 Parental Guide: Future Men Approved
OK, here is the deal with this movie. Indeed the acting was great. The CGI was oh so amazing! The story was that of any superhero movie. It was entertaining and funny. The action was OK in comparison to other movies, yet it was still world-class. This may make it sound like it was the best movie ever. Was it? No it was not. Guardians of the Galaxy's major flaw was that it was its lack of focus on anything other than humor. Unless your sole intent in making a movie is to label it a comedy, humor should be used as a seasoning. Precedents have been set for comedy in superhero movies. I understand that the bar must be raised, but here we have a classic case of quantity vs quality. There are two ways to be a good gift giver. Either A) give a lot of decent gifts with a few pretty good ones or B) Give a really nice gift. Applying this to movies; you can either flood the audience with humor and the laws of marginal utility come into effect or you can give the audience a few nuggets and hope that they like them. It is pretty obvious which one the writers decided to go with when they wrote the story and script of Guardians of the Galaxy. They over seasoned an already great steak. Now I personally like my salt, so as I have said before I am very biased and since it was the comedy that they overdid I am not going to hold it against them too much. Since everyone already knows the great parts I am going to continue to point out the flaws. One big mistake I saw was Thanos's armor. The most evil and powerful guy in the universe and they portray him as more of golden tinfoil wrapped space dad in his special edition floating La-Z-Boy. What were you thinking? And what about Peter Quill apparently being a demigod? (Not the fact that he is the son of Jason of Spartax, that he is a "demigod") That's the only explanation I can come up with for how he can convince so many people to do what he wants. Obviously his mother was actually Aphrodite and she gave him the gift of charm speak. There is just no way he could be that persuasive with such lame arguments without the gift of charm speak. One more thing. This movies villain, did you ever, at any point, even a little, feel like he was actually a threat? Because I did not. To wrap it up, this was a great movie. But taking into consideration all these good sides and bad sides I do not find this movie deserving of the first ever "Stew's Seal Of Approval"