Anticipated greatness, and got it!

Rating: 9/10 (2 August 2014)

Director James Gunn, who started his career out doing b-movies (and showed respected for his roots, by giving his ex-boss, Lloyd Kaufman of Troma films a "don't blink or you'll miss it" cameo) does an amazing job with this big budget special effects spectacular.
Not just for fans of comic book superhero movies, its an awesome space opera able to stomp it with such big dogs like Star Wars and Star Trek. One of the most incredible action adventure films I've seen that was exciting and just so much fun to watch.
Chris Pratt as the Terran outlaw, Star Lord gives an A-list performance that reminded me of such pulp style heroes as Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers. Pratt was able to humanize Star lord with a comedic performance that did not lesson the Heroics. Makes me want to see this guy in more leading man roles.
Zoe Saldana is the reigning Queen of Sci-Fi, even without adding her turn as Gamora, the sexy green skinned, tough as nails assassin to her credit. I'm becoming such a huge fan of Dave Batista out side of the wrestling ring, as an actor. He really showed us that he has what it takes in this film. Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon was Hilarious and it was fun hearing Vin Diesel as Groot, a plant man of few words.
The main antagonist, Ronan the Accuser was pretty cool too. I'm not to familiar with this side of the marvel comics, but I did like seeing the small references all over the movie. Like the movie adaption of the Nova Corps. They fit so much of the Marvel Universe into one movie and it's so amazing that it worked out so great.
Just like Iron man, Marvel was able to turn a low level comic book into a must see summer block buster.