Marvel Laughs!

Rating: 9/10 (1 August 2014)

"Guardians of the Galaxy" must be the perfect summer blockbuster film! Coming from Marvel, home of the angry and angst-ridden superheroes, "Guardians" breaks tradition and was a breath of fresh air with its super-entertaining fun all-out comedy.
Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) was abducted by a spaceship led by the blue- skinned gang lord Yondu (Michael Rooker) when he was a small boy. 26 years later he is an inter-galactic outlaw self-dubbed as "Starlord". When he steals a mysterious metallic orb, he attracts the attention of an evil lord named Ronin (Lee Pace).
Quill gets together with fellow inmates a smart-ass raccoon named Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), a tree creature with a 3-word vocabulary named Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), a musclebound simpleton Drax (Dave Bautista) and a sexy green-skinned warrior Gamora (Zoe Saldana) to protect the orb, which contains a powerful destructive material called the Infinity Stone and turn it over to Nova Prime (Glenn Close).
I have not seen Chris Pratt act before but he is very good in both his comedy and action scenes. I thought he was able to pull off being the lead of this song. It is interesting to note that he Pratt also voice the lead character Emmet of "The Lego Movie" one of the best movies this year so far.
Save for the dramatic opening scene, the rest of this film is riotously funny. I really enjoyed the infectious soundtrack with huge and catchy 1970s hits like from "Come and Get My Love" and "Hooked on a Feeling" to "Ooh Child" and "I Want You Back." This was so much fun. Worthy to watch again, even in IMax.