Serenity 2: Marvel

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2014)

The Guardians of The Galaxy has been heralded as "The Greatest Comic book Movie of All Time" or "The Star Wars of the New Generation". I greatly admit without bias that those claims have been GREATLY exaggerated.
This film follows the Marvel film formula to a Tee. One-liners, average acting followed in suite with flash effects. Unfortunately it did exactly like other Marvel films did and sold well , beyond any real rationale .
When I went to see this film I was expecting the Guardians Of the Galaxy , I use to read. Instead what I got was a mash up of classic Science-Fiction shows and films of yesteryear.
I.E.-Star-Lord was Captain Malcolm Reynolds (with a Sony Walkman) Kree soldiers representing the Minbari from Babylon 5 Star-Lord's ship thanks via Boba Fett's Slave II.
All of this would be easily forgivable if the acting was not so horrid. Pratt did little more then sell why he is a great second rate Sean William Scott.Zoe Saldana proved why she is giving soap opera actress's a run for their money. But truth be told Dave Batista, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel were the highlights to this clusterf&*ck of a film.
Although the special effects offer some nice eye candy and the action sequences will almost have GOTG comic fan's ignore the complete lack of connection to the source material. But distractions are all they really were and in the end it worked (again) for Marvel.
Seeing Ronin The Accuser portrayed as fanatical tyrant as little more then Thanos's lackey was a far cry from the noble warrior king fans know him for in the comics. Groot saying "I am Groot" as his only language and his partner Rocket Raccoon portrayed as little more then bounty hunters (Chewbacca and Han direct connections no less) was something that threw me off. But hey in film you have to adapt to entertain, but among the pile of classic rock, product placement and Saved By the Bell like plot development, it losses it's creative license.
When we next see the crew of the Serenity maybe it will somewhat resemble it's title and we get the real Guardians of The Galaxy.