Pretty fun movie. I was impressed by its comic-bookiness. The ending devolved into a rather generic comic-book-action-movie overblown chaos, but most of it before that was interesting visual ideas and strange, charming characters. I liked Bradley Cooper's voice acting for Rocket because it didn't sound like Bradley Cooper; he's actually a good cartoon voice actor who inhabits a character. The main character wasn't terribly interesting, but he was amusing and muscular enough to hold down the fort while the other weirdos circled around him. My favorite character was Drax. His mixture of intelligence, honesty, stupidity, and violence was compelling and hilarious.
What do I actually want to say about this movie? It was inventive and funny and the characters were good, and the graphics were good too. I read an article saying the success of this movie has established Marvel as a brand now, like Pixar. Now it's not Captain America who brings the audience in, it's Marvel, and they can do almost anything they want now. Sounds good to me. I think Disney's acquisition of Marvel is the best thing that ever happened to Marvel. More money is flowing though the Marvel brand than ever before. The warehouses of paper content that have been made at Marvel can now be turned into gigantic, popular spectacles, which is all they creators ever wanted, of course.
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