I'm Distracting you, ya big TurdBlossom!

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2015)

This was simply fun, no other way to describe it. This is a Comic Book movie the way they should all be made. It's the "Star Wars: A Hew Hope" type of thing.
Most moviegoers today did not see the original "Star Wars" as it was called in 1977, and moreover they did not see it up to 20 times in the theater like just about everyone did back then. In fact, there were no multiplex theater complexes, movie-going was much more of an event.
By today's standards, it's impossible to create a movie that will have the same impact. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ran for most of a year when it came out. But Star Wars? The Original Star Wars ran for almost 2 years straight, the line to get in was constantly over 100 people long.
So when I say, this movie gets that feeling back, it does - Maybe not the same reaction. It is very rare that a movie runs for a year these days, so if a movie runs 4 to 5 months, it is considered excellent.
But I started hearing very good things about this for months until I was able to see it. It looks good, the music brings back memories, and at the most important spot in the movie, they play "The Runaways" version of "Cherry Bomb".
Vinny Diesel really does not need to say much beyond "I am Groot", after a while, you know what he means. But the guy who stands out here is of course Dave Bautista, who was also in "Riddick" as what Riddick calls "A Big Jamoke". Here, he's the the big Jamoke who takes everything literally. His performance is one of the best things here.
Each of the main characters has that one quirk that makes them interesting, or, irritating.
I can see tendrils of story leading into The Avengers and the first Captain America installment, look for The Cosmic Cube. There are several great character actors- "The Collector" (Benicio Del Toro), Michael Rooker (Yondu), Djimon Hounsou as Korath, John C Reilly as a Nova Cop, even Glenn Close as Nova Prime. Christopher Fairbank, "The Broker".
Lee Pace (Thranduil from The Hobbit series) is a great Ronan. and we finally get to see that "Skrull" who was shown briefly at the end of "The Avengers" - It was "Thanos", voiced at least by Josh Brolin.
I have the first edition of this comic in my comic bin, sadly I have never read it. Of course this is rife with CGI, but it's a comic book movie, and CGI is, or could be used as comic art of sorts. I wonder how much this story follows anything from that one comic? The cinematography is very much like recreated comic book frames.
It's not just about CGI, it is using it cleverly, which this does. This film could not have been made without it.
Zoe Saldana is great in green, but the big mystery of the day is "who is Starlord's dad"? According to Yondu, "The Guy was a Jerk".
Hopefully we'll find out, in a sequel that's as cool as this one. And remember, Nebula (Karen Gillan) is still floating around somewhere sans hand, did she go back to her daddy?
The bad reviews and votes: I found several verbatim 1 stars in here, repeated over and over as I went through the pages chronologically. Seriously, post it ONE time. Ya don't get 100 votes while we only get one!