A better Guardians of the Galaxy than Guardians of the Galaxy. Shame it shouldn't be.

Rating: 6/10 (20 November 2017)

Main characters are dying left and right, and you just can't give a damn no matter how hard you try, because they are dying in a CGI buffed stand-up comedy. Even Guardians of the Galaxy knew when to take a darker tone if it needed to, this movie is just an action flick that lacks all seriousness and emotional impact from the first minute to the last. This movie wouldn't have looked or felt any different if they had replaced Chris Hemsworth with Aziz Ansari. All of it feels very out of place.
I give it six stars only because all those elements the comedy runs into the ground are actually good, and would need no change at all if this was an actual, serious movie about the end times of Asgard. The characters have depth, their motives are believable, they all have their little backstories that make the main plot that much more colorful.
This could have been the best Marvel movie of recent years if it wouldn't have been designed to be one big out of character superhero comedy.