A hilarious version of its own genre #Spoilers

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2014)

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Left the theater with a smile after two hours of superb entertainment, with a brilliant soundtrack, which was streamed immediately when I got home.
The movie gives a lot of good laughs, without trying to be a goofy comedy. I don't think the plot of the movie is the best ever seen, but it does not matter due to the characters, the word play, the songs and not to forget - a raccoon shooting a machine gun. The comic books of Marvel of course have the credit for the creation of the characters, but the writers, directors and animators have done a fantastic job of giving the characters life, backgrounds, feeling, jokes and stories to tell, and this is the main reason this movie is that good!
For me the soundtracks played a great part in the movie - not only to the main character (Peter), but also to the audience. With the only exception of "ain't no mountain high enough" (a bit too far fetched), the songs set the right emotion of many scenes and tell Peter's story about his relationship with his mother without making a bunch of cutaways or flashbacks. A great way to indirectly telling the audience a story.
I love the way James Gunn manage to make GotG do jokes on its own genre. For example, the widely used "heroes walking in a line in slow motion"- scene, is of course joining this movie too, but Gunn keep their antihero-look, which they are, by for making the Rocket (the raccoon) scratch himself in slow motion. Even more brilliant is the circle scene where Peter is telling his plan, and when Rocket finally joins the plan he says: "Look at us - A bunch of jackasses standing in a circle". It is a typical cliché in this type of movie, and that it is pointed out in the movie is just brilliant.
A great movie, worth seeing again