The time to leave Earth is finally upon us.
Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel s first movie set (almost) entirely away from our home world is now in theaters promising to bring a new spin to the comic book movie genre that can sometimes feel a little too familiar. But there s nothing familiar about seeing Chris Pratt run around battling bad guys alongside a gun toting raccoon and a talking tree creature and yet that weirdness works all too well based on what critics are saying.
Having said that Guardians is not for everyone. There are a few critics who do not seem pleased to visit the Galaxy of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But those negative reviews are few and far between more often than not people are responding to Guardians in a big way.
Read on for a quick selection of Guardians reviews
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The Big Risk Pays Off Directed with an effortlessly light touch by James Gunn a low budget maestro of genre films such as 2006 s Slither and 2010 s Super Guardians of the Galaxy represents a risky proposition for Marvel on several levels a director who s never grappled with a project of this scale before a menagerie of comic book characters who are hardly household names (even to fanboys) and a tongue in cheek B movie vibe that s more Starcrash than Star Wars. But give Marvel props even with all of its mega success the studio s still willing to take chances. Here that risk pays off big time. The film s a giddily subversive space opera that runs on self aware smart assery. Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly
The Ghostbusters Connection There are three things that make Ghostbusters work it s funny it functions as an actual movie outside of the comedy and the characters are great. These three things are apparently very hard to stuff into one movie because it is so rare to find a film that pulls them all off. But without all three a funny adventure movie is lopsided off balance and ultimately not that good.
Guardians of the Galaxy pulls off all three and with such adroit surety that it makes you wonder why almost nobody else has been doing the same for the last thirty years. There s a central structure a MacGuffin chase predicated on reversals and betrayals that keeps the story moving like a freight train and there are plenty of laughs and jokes along the way. But what makes Guardians of the Galaxy a film that is in the same league as Ghostbusters are the characters these are characters with real heart and soul fully formed people who are exciting and funny and wounded in equal measure. Devin Faraci Badass Digest
The Voices of the Galaxy I hope Bradley Cooper won t take it amiss when I say that he gives one of his best performances to date as the voice of a trash talking space raccoon. Rocket who s adorably rendered in a style that suggests but isn t stop motion animation at first struck me as overly cute one of those cloying smartass animals inserted to pander to young children in the audience. But I ll be damned if Cooper didn t give this ring tailed creature some layers.
Rocket s crabby exchanges with his vegetal sidekick Groot beautifully voiced by Vin Diesel are among the movie s highlights. Groot can only speak a single phrase I am Groot but he utters it with so many different intonations that it comes to constitute a language of its own one which only his pal the raccoon can accurately interpret. Dana Stevens Slate
When Silliness Becomes a Serious Problem It s like the silly superhero loving kids goofing off in the back of the classroom looked at The Avengers and X Men and declared Hey how hard can it be to save the world Let s do it too That s how slapdash this kitschy comic book flick plays on screen. And while it can be a refreshing twist when a film doesn t take itself seriously the lack of quality blockbusters this summer is no laughing matter. Mara Reinstein Us Weekly
The Final Word Maybe you never heard of Guardians of the Galaxy the Marvel comic franchise that wilts in the shadows while Spider Man the X Men and the Avengers get all the love. Maybe you think a big ass movie about wanna be Marvel icons isn t worth your time.
Snap out of it. Guardians of the Galaxy does the impossible. Through dazzle and dumb luck it turns the clich s of comic book films on their idiot heads and hits you like an exhilarating blast of fun fun fun. It s insanely shamelessly silly just one reason to love it. Peter Travers Rolling Stone
Guardians of the Galaxy is in theaters now.
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