An Adult Kid's Movie or A Kiddy Adult's Movie? Just a BAD movie!

Rating: 1/10 (31 March 2015)

After all the hoopla I took a risk and saw this movie, wow! so this is what Hollywood is doing these days?
I gotta say this was literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen! The script was really poor and any parts that were semi-decent were immediately cut down with cheesy one liners and really BAD humor, seriously this movie script rivaled the one liners from Schwarzenegger in Batman and Robin.
It really bothers me that movies like this with massive budgets and no thought get such a huge rating. Movies like the Babadook; (released the same year) a movie with relatively no budget but a very entertaining ride gets a mediocre IMDb score. I guess it is unfair to compare a family? movie with a horror but GOTG may as well have been a horror because it was uncomfortable to watch.
New ideas are clearly not the way forward if cheese like this can score so highly, I'm sorry but in my opinion if a movie has a huge budget to begin with then there is no need to economize and the movie will just be thrown together. CG does NOT make a movie more watchable and the sooner Hollywood gets it, then I may consider going back to the Movies to watch another Blockbuster. I had the same problem with Avatar, I don't care how pretty the movie looks but a bad script/story will always show a movie for what it really is and this was a real turkey!
The visuals and budget aside, trust me I'm just getting started; the character development is totally non-existent and the characters are extremely one dimensional. You will not care about any of them they are all stereotypical sci-fi fodder (colorful aliens with the same weapons you've seen over and over again and annoying comic relief characters).
As well as the common sci-fi tropes ...travel through space ...aliens coming to Earth. ...a dystopia. ...superhuman abilities. ...a war against evil. ...visiting a world where you were never born.
Each one is present in this movie in one form or another and it just goes to show how formulaic it really is. I honestly almost puked at the last line of this movie too, you'll know it when you hear it.
Lastly the Music, nothing original here its all 70's and 80's pre- made tracks, spliced in with the usual dramatic sci-fi score, I don't buy the whole "it makes it more authentic" thing I also don't buy the fact that he has a seemingly endless supply of AA batteries for his tape player either! How convenient that they had a bank of old tracks to recycle for this movie, definitely not a cost-cutting strategy...
After watching this I have had an epiphany; independent and art movies are obviously the way forward because they never have huge budgets and the result is a movie that has been a struggle from the word 'GO', adversity results in better art and this movie demonstrates another lazy cut and paste Hollywood fail to me.
Seriously don't bother!