Guardians is a fantastic, futuristic tale

Marvel is on a roll with the avengers series of films. While I thought Iron Man 3 was good (but not great), I thoroughly enjoyed Thor 2 and Captain America 2. Guardians continues the trend, in fact my son says it is his favorite yet. I might not go that far, but it is a wild, entertaining movie.

I think even Marvel didn’t know what to make of Guardians from the beginning. It is the first non-sequel film in the series since the first Captain America back in 2011, and as such didn’t have any crossover or shared characters with the previous highly successful films. It also took place off our world, and really the only thing shared is a human as the main character. If not for the Marvel comics background, it could just be a good sci-fi film, full of spaceships and planet-hopping aliens. But the same humor and high intensity action that Marvel’s films are known for permeates throughout this movie.

The Guardians are unwillingly brought together through haphazard circumstances. At first they butt heads, but they team up to stop a villain from destroying a civilization. It’s not a new story, and there really isn’t anything new about how it is told, but they do it so well that it is still a lot of fun to watch. The movie killed it in opening weekend and I’m sure a sequel will be in development before long. If you aren’t a paid movie critic (seriously, some of these snobs need every film to have some deeper meaning to be “good”) then you will almost certainly enjoy this movie, and seeing all those space explosions on the big screen is worth it.