Marvel’s first movie that expanded into outer-space, where
the Marvel Cinematic Universe quite literally started exploring “the universe”,
yes, Road to Infinity War has reached Guardians of the Galaxy.
The core team are all brilliant, there isn’t one that outshines the other, each is unique and quirky in their own way; Drax’s dry sense of
humour, Groot’s child-like innocence, Rocket’s attitude, Star-Lord’s swagger
and charisma. Arguably, Gamora is the
weakest link, but that’s only because she’s the most straight of the
characters, though she more than makes up for that in bad-assery.
GotG is technically even more impressive than The Avengers
in terms of film structure and balancing it’s team of characters. Whereas The
Avengers had the luxury of (most of) the characters being introduced in their
own solo movies first, GotG introduces all of them naturally into its own
narrative and still tells a cohesive story over a 3 act structure in under 2
hours, it’s really great stuff.
It seems redundant to point out how great of a soundtrack
the movie has now, but remember at the time of release it was a novelty to hear 70s / 80s
pop rock in a comicbook movie. Anyway it still stands up and generally adds to the
feel good nature of the movie.
Thanos gets his first full-scene cameo in the MCU and
although he doesn’t do anything particularly intimidating it’s great to see him
in the (purple) flesh. We also get our first (expanded) explanation of the Infinity Stones (thanks to The Collector), so as with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World it really feels like the bigger over-arching MCU story is coming into play.
Although it may not be my favourite movie in the MCU, Guardians
of the Galaxy is definitely one of the best films in the MCU (as if you didn’t know that already).
NB – Can you believe GOTG and Captain America: The Winter Soldier were released in the same year?!
Written by @RossBishop for MoviePush. Follow Ross on Twitter.
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