Good movie for teens if it weren't for the annoying music

Rating: 7/10 (8 February 2015)

Some kid's mother is on her death bed. She gives him a gift. When she dies he runs out and is abducted by a spaceship.
We meet Peter again in the present (future) on an abandoned planet, were he pulls an orb out of some holographic image. He calls himself a junker and an outlaw by the name of Starlord. Some bad guys show up who want the orb. He defeats them. We learn that some bad guy named Ronan was commissioned by some uber giant bad guy to get the orb at all costs. Now they put a bounty on Peter and Ronan sends some green girl to get the orb.
As he's about to deliver the orb to the buyer on an earth-like planet, he runs into the green girl and a pair of bounty hunters--a talking raccoon and a walking tree.
They are all jailed. Turns out everyone in jail wants to kill the green girl because she or her boss has murdered family members of all the inmates. Among them is an articulate steroid muscle. They all agree to work together to escape. They come up with a plan and indeed manage to escape of sorts. But turns out that muscle in his eagerness for revenge called Ronan somehow in order to confront and kill him. Ronan shows up, grabs the orb and kicks their behinds. Peter ends up grabbed by his mentor, the same guy who abducted him in his youth.
Now they all have to work together to grab the orb, which contains an infinity stone so powerful that it can destroy galaxies, no less, and defeat Ronan before he can destroy the earth-like planet. Just how does Marvel manage to make dozens of movies with the same story? Guardians of the Galaxy is mild adventure movie for teens. It places more emphasis on story and emotions than on CGI carnage. But it's a bit too much, it's constantly trying to get the audience to shed a tear. I do appreciate though the moderation in hyperfast brain-frying CGI battles. What I don't appreciate is the constant loud obnoxious music blasted at full volume. I sure hope this isn't a return to the 90s fad when movie studios were more concerned in selling a lousy compilation CD than in making a good movie. I'm also a fan of the 70s and 80s and like some of the music of the time, but here they managed to collect the absolute worst songs of the era. If that weren't enough, there's the obligatory bombastic Wagner-ripped off orchestrated music. If some American lawyer ever convinced the Wagner estate to sue Hollywood studios for piracy and other related crimes, they'd make trillions.
This movie is also quite funny as when Peter challenges Ronan to a "dance-off" during the climax. Guardians also looks pretty cool at times. They learned their lesson from Thor I. Audiences want to see cool, colorful cosmic sights.
Casting is iffy. Pratt, Pace, and Gillan stand out. Saldana and Rooker are awful. Cooper, Diesel (?), Close, del Toro are unnecessary. Why not give a chance to new or newish actors, instead of throwing even more money at these multi-millionaries whose contributions to this movie are questionable at best.
For the intended teen audience, Guardians is a recommendable movie. Despite the silliness of it all, it doesn't treat the audience as complete morons. The movie handles language well, not vile but even articulate at times--always a good thing to foment in young people. The fact that this movie turned out so well while directed and written by people with virtually no experience, and this is becoming a strange trend lately, shows that all the fuzz about "The Director" is completely overblown. Clearly the way movies are made these days makes the role of the director far less important and it looks like it doesn't take a lot to direct a movie. That's not to take away Gunn's writing skills, which are also rather surprising.
It's an alright movie for older audiences as well, but I have to say that the oversaturaturation of the movie market with Marvel movies about the destruction of the universe is starting to get a bit too much.