If you want to be famous, you must make a name for yourself first. This is especially true for superheroes. Among those were Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” long backbenchers, another of the many world-savior collectives that since his comic debut in the sixties with a rotating cast was allowed to contest only a few rows of stitching. The times than tip should now however be over, because with their own, already commercially successful feature film, Peter Quill aka Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Racoon, Groot and Drax the Destroyer catapult from the second row right in the bright center of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The financial risk, previously almost exclusively known enthusiast characters with high production and marketing costs on par with icons like Captain America or to bring Hulk, has obviously paid off. However, what makes the film remarkable about the balances out, is its charm: Directed by James Gunn of the spacefaring community of fate manages a peculiar balancing act between riot pleasure and warmth, anarchic fun and defiant pathos.
For the filming zeitigt those qualities, which already includes the younger Guardians Comics distinguished from author Brian Michael Bendis. It also includes a self-ironic attitude to their own niche and taking care of the underdog image. For this origin story provides ample opportunity for the protagonists initially not a very glorious shapes and light years away from being a team.With the Walkman through space
According traveling alone is initially Peter Quill, the space pirates in children abducted from Earth and from the deathbed of his mother. Now an adult, but not adult, the self-proclaimed Star-Lord tried as soldiers of fortune and job thief. Always with this he has his big mouth and an ancient Walkman, runs on the only Mamas “Awesome Mix Vol. I”, a compilation of soul and rock classics from her childhood. Chris Pratt (“Parks and Recreation”), which also makes this film the secret status behind him, plays these lovable wannabe with so much casual naturalness and devotion that another occupation seems unimaginable.
At the opening Quill is through the theft of a spherical artifact several times of trouble one: His extraterrestrial surrogate father, the blue-skinned pirate Yondu (Michael Rooker), puts a bounty on him in order to get to the mysterious booty . The fanatic Ronan (Lee Pace), however, takes the ball in the hidden legendary Infinity Stone to achieve its universal destruction fantasies. He sends Gamora (Zoe Saldana) to hunt down Quill, bringing the threat scenario gets even more imposing. For Gamora was made by Thanos, Marvels mad Titan for all cases was orphaned and then brought up from childhood to the killer. No question that the adoptive father pursued his perfidious plans in the background.
Gamora finds Quill on the planet Xandar. But then waits another competition on the doubting fighter: The genetically engineered weapons and technology specialist Rocket and his companion Groot want to collect the bounty for Quill. They give a sensational duo, because the irascible Rocket is amazingly similar to an earthly Raccoon – only should be the opposite to him better not mention – and Groot is a tree beings with amazing abilities to grow and a small vocabulary (consisting of the sentence “I am Groot”).
Quill and the Gang
There follows a turbulent confrontation, which ends for all participants in prison. But as so often in the movies welded these prison experience together. Quill, Gamora, Rocket and Groot put their dispute so at least temporarily, in and to take together a breakout attempt. They are accompanied by hulking fellow inmates Drax (Dave Bautista), who wants revenge on the mass murderer Ronan for the death of his family. No sooner are the five unequal escape, they have to defuse the dangerous wonders ball, Ronan staying together with his army, and on top of that to save a civilization that appears in the to be no place for them. If even rehabilitation, then just really difficult.
By the way is yet ascended more prominent personnel, including Glenn Close as head of the Nova Corps – a kind of galactic police – rare and Benicio Del Toro in the role of Taneleer Tivan, an opaque Collectibles. Some of these performances, as well as the presence of super villain Thanos, are obviously the preparation of future sequels in the Marvel universe. All this is done dutifully, but quite at the film’s more, if he ignores the generic plot and has been symptomatic fuss to powerful energy sources and instead the Guardians simply leaves a little shake up the galaxy.
Fortunately uses the production as well as the relatively high degree of design freedom, which provides a relatively unknown comic template. In Gunns entertaining staging it pops any event colorful at all corners, and unquestionably Han Solo would shoot in this universe comes first.
In addition cavalier Spaceploitation the film shows but also how limbless person to verkorkster outsider a touching surrogate family arises from a handful. In the’ve Drax’s amusing problems with metaphors as well as space Rockets poignant “Elephant Man” moment (“I’m not an animal!”) Or Peter Quills philosophical digressions about Kevin Bacon in “Footloose”. If this still Groot mawkish stretches out the branches and Marvin Gaye with Tammi Terrell “Is not no mountain high enough” sings, presumably squashed even the hardy Gamora a tear.
Therefore and thanks to a convincing cast – to that in the original English version and Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel are as Speaker of Rocket and Groot – need these Guardians no comparison with the brilliant Marvel-Stars to spare. Many superheroes form teams, however they are a real transition. And they have soul.
Guardians of the Galaxy
USA, United Kingdom 2014
Director: James Gunn
: Book: James Gunn, Nicole Perlman
Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Lee Pace, Dave Batista, Benicio del Toro, Glenn Close, Karen Gillan
Production : Marvel Films, Marvel Enterprises, The Moving Picture Company
Rental: Walt Disney Germany
length: 122 minutes
From: August 28, 2014
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