Very much an enjoyable comedic action entertainment

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2014)

The movie starts with Peter Quill, kidnapped by a spaceship as a kid, he's then seen on an alien planet retrieving an orb. But he soon meets Korath but escapes. His buyer in Xandar refuses to buy the orb after hearing the name Ronan associated with it. Immediately after that Gamora jumps him for the orb and Rocket and Groot join the fight, in subdue Quill for Yondu's bounty. They all get captured by the Nova Corps and sent into prison where they meet Drax. Quill talks Drax out from killing Gamora and soon the five embark on a quite comical escape. Gamora lead the group to Nowhere to meet with The Collector. The Collector reveals the powerful stone inside the orb and an accident happens. The group escape but when they're outside it runs out that Drax sends a signal that summons Ronan and Nebula. Drax go to fight Ronan while Nebula chases Quill, Rocket and Gamora. Ronan bested Drax, while Nebula manages to destroy Gamora's pod and left her to die after taking the stone. Quill saves Gamora by giving her his mask and calling out for Yondu. After talking out a deal with Yondu and a comical standoff with Rocket, The group rallies again devising a plan to save Xandar from Ronan.
After Quill calls the Nova Corps to warn about Xandar the group and Yondu go to battle in Xandar's skies. Rocket and Yondu pierce a hole on Ronan's ship and the rest of the group breaches it. Gamora faces Nebula, Drax handles Korath, and Rocket helps the Nova Corps handle Ronan's fighter ships. The four reaches Ronan but Quill firing Rocket's special cannon does nothing to him. Rocket slams Quill's ship to where Ronan is. That makes Ronan's ship plummets down even more unstoppably, so Groot grows his tendrils and cocoons the other four. Quill, Gamora, Rocket and Drax survived, but Ronan is still unharmed. After a speech by Ronan, Quill distracts him while Rocket and Drax shoot at his hammer, releasing the stone on it. Quill grabs the stone, but like what it did at the Collector's, it starts to take Quill's life. Gamora, Rocket and Drax instinctively grab on Quill, and the stone's power is spread between them and they kill Ronan with it.
The story rolls out slowly just for the first three or four minutes, and then it's a hell of a ride after that. The pace is very quick with just enough moments to slow down and breathe a little, yet it never stops actually. I like how the story completes out the background very well for Peter Quill, although the same can't really be said about the other four main characters. The mood is very nice, crazy action and all the hilarious jokes you can laugh at.
The action is nice. I was anticipating that the action will be quite boring since I expected to see the usual laser shootouts, mêlée blade fights, and heavy personal artillery fires, pretty much what there is in a typical space based action movie. But this movie contains the awesome mêlée smack down action with well designed moves nicely performed and edited stunts.
Especially on the jokes, they make this movie into one of the best jokes in superhero/comic based movies. They very much laughable and enjoyable. What's even better is that they're not scarce to find. And also they come in many forms, not only the classic one-liner dialog, but also practical jokes, references, and long duration call backs.
The acting is a nice overall. Chris Pratt gets the character of free minded yet past-bound bounty hunter nicely. Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillian gets the action scenes nice enough. Bradley Cooper can really make all Rocket's scenes enjoyable. Vin Diesel is the one who needed to make the least effort for his one line dialog almost the entire movie.
The props, sets and makeup do their job nicely. But the thing that is praise worthy is the visual effects and photography combination. The right amount of light plays, combined with the right angles and pans and zooms make the scenes both enjoyable and enable them to deliver the story well.
From me, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) is worth an 8 out of 10 score and a definite recommendation to go and see in the movies. It is very enjoyable both on the action and comedy sides.