Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 52 wins & 99 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Director and co-writer James Gunn brings a giddiness and a wondrous, endless sense of why-the-hell-not? possibility that's reminiscent of Star Wars.
– Christy Lemire,
ChristyLemire.com,
2 Aug 2014
fresh:
Chris Pratt, overflowing with charisma, plays the leader of the pack of misfits, and his blissed-out space cowboy (with a love for seventies music) is so full of good will that he buoys the film and its requisite whizbang special effects.
– Bruce Diones,
New Yorker,
5 Sep 2014
rotten:
These meager pleasures are swallowed up in all the frantic action and overblown CG sequences.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
30 Sep 2014
rotten:
The lightly derisive, live-action-cartoon tone robs the movie of any majesty, even of the comic-book type, and the many violent deaths of their suitable gravity.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
30 Sep 2014
fresh:
Blessed with a loose, anarchic B-picture soul that encourages you to enjoy yourself even when you're not quite sure what's going on, the scruffy Guardians is irreverent in a way that can bring the first Star Wars to mind.