Lifeless and Dull Film

Rating: 5/10 (13 August 2014)

Summary
I have a bad relationship so far with Marvel-Disney. The best film they've made so far has been Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier (7/10). The other enjoyable film they've made is The Avengers (7/10). All their other films were not good films though. Same with Guardians of the Galaxy. If you like Marvel-Disney films, you'll probably like this movie. If you don't like them, you probably will not like this movie.
Review
Guardians of the Galaxy was pretty mediocre for me. Nothing was horrible or great. It had a few lines of funny dialogue. Most of jokes failed to hit. In fact, there seemed to be at least one joke every 30 seconds. This became annoying. The character, Rocket, was a knock-off of Timon from The Lion King. Imagine having Timon in every scene of a movie and mouthing off at any chance given. It really gets irritating.
Though, I think the main problem with movie was its overuse of (mediocre) special effects. The recent Star Wars movies suffered from this same problem. The action scenes were lifeless and lacking any suspense. Plus, whenever the main characters are put in danger, some sort of magic bails them out.
Overall, the movie tries too hard to be fun. It fails in my opinion. I know most of the people who saw the film disagree with this assessment.
Side Note: there were like four or so lines of blatant objectification of women which I didn't appreciate. One main character calls the main female lead, "A stupid whore," when she has not acted sexually or promiscuous throughout the whole film. Even if she had, it is still wrong to call her that. This angers me as this film is meant for the whole family, and more specifically kids. This kind of behavior should not be shown as acceptable to young men or boys.