Guardians of the Galaxy
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James GunnKamera:
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Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close (mehr)Streaming (5)
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Der Pilot und intergalaktische Vagabund Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), als „Star-Lord" bekannt und immer auf der Suche nach kostbaren Relikten, gerät durch einen dummen Zufall zwischen die Fronten eines (welt-)allumfassenden Konfliktes. Bei seinem letzten Beutezug stiehlt er ohne es zu ahnen eine mysteriöse Super-Waffe, auf die offensichtlich das ganze Universum scharf ist, und macht sich damit nicht nur zum neuen Lieblingsfeind des gewieften Schurken Ronan. Denn wer immer diese Waffe besitzt, ist in der Lage, den gesamten Kosmos zu unterwerfen. Auf seiner wilden Flucht verbündet sich Quill notgedrungen mit einem bunt zusammengewürfelten Haufen Aussenseiter: dem waffenschwingenden Waschbären Rocket Racoon, dem intelligenten Baummenschen Groot, der ebenso rätselhaften wie tödlichen Gamora (Zoe Saldana) und dem raffinierten Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista). Unter dem Namen GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY zieht diese ziemlich spezielle Heldentruppe gemeinsam in den Kampf um das Schicksal des gesamten Universums. Irgendjemand muss den Job ja erledigen! (Walt Disney Deutschland)
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Die Figuren werden entspannt und mit Genuss dargestellt. Es handelt sich um unkonventionelle Helden, denen man die Teamarbeit glaubt und abnimmt. Chris Pratt ist ein aufgehender super sympathischer Sonnyboy, Zoe Saldana wäre in jeder Farbe sexy und Groot ist zum Anbeißen. Der Plot ist ein abgeleiertes Klischee, aber die entspannte Stimmung des Films, die zeigt, dass man hier nichts ernst nimmt, macht es wieder gut. Eine unangenehme Überraschung ist jedoch die Taubheit vom Großteil der Witze. Popkultur-Sprüche, bei denen man laut lacht, die originell sind und viele Verweise enthalten, sollten das Hauptgewürz des Films sein. Es sind aber fast keine von ihnen da. Auch Seth MacFarlane hatte in seinem Unsinn mehr davon. Die Höhepunkt-Szene wurde durch Bates Unfähigkeit verdorben, ein sich steigerndes und melodisches Musikmotiv zu komponieren. Die technische Gestaltung ist aber perfekt.
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The plot rides on the wave of traditional comic book clichés, there’s the die-hard bad guy who wants to wipe out the galaxy and a bunch of oddballs trying to stop him. But the ubiquitous self-deprecating humour takes this tale up a level of fun, as do a bunch of likeable characters who have each picked up an extra bucket of charisma and whose fates keep you interested. James Gunn has capitalized well on his Troma beginnings, and he handles the wisecracking bizarre characters with aplomb and with humor that doesn't feel awkward or hammy. And tell me, is it possible not to love a film in which the protagonist is willing to put his life on the line to save his beloved prehistoric Walkman? I myself once, many years ago, as a poor student, bought my first Walkman with the last money I had saved and was happy as a pig in shit, so I understand Chris Pratt's feelings :o) And it wasn't even a gift from my mother.
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Guardians of the Galaxy is terribly silly – a multifarious group of sociopaths race to find a silver orb in order to prevent cosmic genocide – but it’s also hard to resist. It is a heroic interplanetary adventure mixed with an ironic B-movie space opera that is nevertheless more serious and less bizarre than you would expect from a former Troma collaborator (Gunn is the co-author of the screenplay for Tromeo and Juliet and the book All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger). ___ It’s rather unlikely that such a disparate group would come together, so we spend the whole film being persuaded that they can actually work together as a team. The development of the characters is limited to the transformation of hard-headed individualists into team players, which is skilfully incorporated into the main storyline – the plan has to be changed on the fly multiple times because the characters dumbly pursue their own objectives and complicate or delay the achievement of the main goal (Groot in prison, Drax on Knowhere). The film rather straightforwardly focuses on a group of outsiders being accepted by the system (which is dialectically represented by the peace-loving democratic planet Xandar and the Nova Corps military organisation), finding kindred spirits and becoming members of a notional new family (a large, live tree becomes its symbol in probably the most sentimental scene of the film). ___ However, it’s also essentially true that the deeper you go beneath the surface of the film, the more likely you are to be disappointed. The action scenes are spectacular, quite well arranged and sufficiently funny, but they don’t always serve the narrative. For example, the struggle after the first attempt to sell the orb didn’t have to happen at all or could have taken just a few tens of seconds and the impact on the main storyline would have been the same. Furthermore, the formula of “intergalactic terrorist wants to destroy/dominate the universe using a super-powerful artifact (which is nothing more than a MacGuffin)” is already rather worn out and the film doesn’t manage to overcome its clichéd nature quite as effectively as, for example, Iron Man 3 did. ___ On the other hand, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a blockbuster that was such a joy to watch for its visual aspect alone – and often only for that. Whereas the plot, an Oedipal narrative in its most traditional form, is strikingly reminiscent of A New Hope (a young man growing up without his parents and whose father turns out to be a rather dark character is drawn into an adventure in which millions of lives are at stake) and cheap Star Wars imitations like Battle Beyond the Stars, The Ice Pirates and The Last Starfighter (whose posters obviously inspired the Guardians of the Galaxy poster), the visual creativity of the artists was clearly inspired by the kitschy scenography of the new Star Wars trilogy, the dark visions of H.R. Giger (a planet in a huge head) and the camp aesthetics of Flash Gordon. ___ In addition to the breathtaking visuals, which we can thoroughly enjoy thanks to the longer shots and the large number of deeply composed scenes and half-scenes (which, among other things, serve to illustrate the motif of team cohesion, or lack thereof), Guardians of the Galaxy is notable for its parallel targeting at multiple age groups. Unlike other self-conscious genre pastiches, it doesn’t offer greater pleasure only for those viewers who are familiar with the various fictional worlds (Star Trek, Godzilla, Django), but also for viewers who are familiar with various frames of reference, particularly the present day and the 1980s in this case. Quill represents this duality in the diegesis. On the one hand, he easily fits in among contemporary nerdy heroes with their own system of values that is not derived from authorities, who care more about their technological toys (Walkman, mask) than about living beings and are walking encyclopaedias of pop culture. On the other hand, Quill is also a child of the ’80s, which is evident not only in the objects on his instrument panel (an old cassette recorder, a troll doll, an ALF sticker), but also in most of the films that he quotes from (Footloose, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Howard the Duck). The music that he listens to (naturally on a Walkman from the ’80s), which his absent mother recorded for him and which repeatedly interferes with the development of the narrative, can also be understood as a reminder of the period of his childhood, i.e. the ‘80s. If the 1980s, understood as a period of return to conservative values, serve as a model for the hero’s actions and thinking, this is a variation on the formula of Back to the Future, in which the ’80s had to be “corrected” according to the model of the innocent 1950s. What is implied by all of today’s looking back to the values represented by Reagan’s America of the 1980s? I’d prefer to let others answer that, but I don’t have a very good feeling about it. 80%
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Hit me over the head with an Orb, but this well-shot but desperately unimaginative action should have been saved by an unconventional group of superheroes, and yet they sprinkle the witty dialogue in there so stiffly that I wondered if I was in another galactic quadrant; or how important it is to have a solo act.
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At first, I thought: another Marvel movie that’ll get lost in the mix. Then I read some enticing articles about it and slowly but surely, I was beginning to inconspicuously change my opinion of it. In the end, I was only truly convinced at the moment when I watched the movie at a cinema. This Marvel movie isn’t mediocre at all and most importantly, it’s different from all the other superheroes they keep shoving down our throats all the time. It takes place in space, it has a bunch of alien races, a talking raccoon and an overgrown tree. It’s fun, amusing and it has an amazing CGI that makes you feel like you’re in space with them. Plus, it offers Dave Bautista, a wrestler whose door to Hollywood was forever opened by this movie, in my opinion. And I’d love to see him again. All of these points are connected by originality and humor that has managed to tell this two-hour story with ease. And I wouldn’t have guessed that length at the cinema, not even after twenty minutes of contemplating. It was amazing! I’m just so pleasantly surprised and I can’t wait for the sequel.
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Guardians of the Galaxy machen sich dessen schuldig, wofür die Menschen galaktische Seifenopern lieben, zumal ihnen diese Eigenschaften durch ihre Zugehörigkeit zum Marvel-Universum in die Wiege gelegt wurden. Mit anderen Worten, eines trifft auf diesen Film sicherlich nicht zu: er ist in der Tat nicht subversiv. Es gibt da war stets ein leichtes Grinsen, doch das ändert nichts an der Tatsache, dass er das Potenzial kosmischer Heldensagen sowie der Marvel-Knotenpunkte vollumfänglich ausnutzt. Der hiesige Humor ist in ähnlicher weise klar vorbestimmt, wie die Wahl der siebziger Jahre Schlager, jedoch als losgelöste galaktische Sitcom mit hervorragenden Charakteren funktioniert das ganze und fängt sogar in wichtigsten Momenten mit vollem Ernst an, auch als "Superhelden"-Show etwas zu bieten (ungefähr zweimal war ich von der reinen Essenz des heroischen Pathos gerührt, um danach gemeinsam mit den Helden über mich selbst zu lachen). Es ist auf eine rührende Art und weise kindisch - und wirkt doch sehr erwachsen, selbstbewusst. Und bis ins Detail hochgerechnet. Bei Marvel weiß man das einfach. Und zwar jahrelang im Voraus. [75%]
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An unforgivable waste of potential. The most entertaining (because it’s the most crackpot, most absurd and the biggest sneer at classic superhero team movies) Marvel squad movie whose wings have been clipped by being grafted onto the standard template of an endless stream of Marvel movies “putting our money only on the tried and tested"; this time dressed up as a space opera with shamefully unremarkable action. Although they should have chosen a rather more revolutionary approach to the material. Maybe some time in the future; maybe with that already cult character from the post-credits scene.
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I am Groot – and that's great. Complaints about the fact that Guardians of the Galaxy turned out to be just an "ordinary" Marvel movie can be attributed primarily to the extensive media massage all around, which deprived us of any surprises. It is difficult to imagine a stranger situation than when the main blue-black villain is faced with a group consisting of an 80s fanboy, an unfunny fighter, an unpredictable talking raccoon with a machine gun, and a tree in the foreground. And, of course, it's another pursuit of the devilish stone that can destroy everything. Because why not, when all the teams, villains, and artifacts successfully merge into one pile a few years later in the spectacle called Avengers: Infinity War. However, for now, the Guardians are struggling as a cohesive group with an incredibly positive song-filled soundtrack, shockingly self-assured direction by James Gunn, and an opulent finale that dazzles with every new idea, even in a relatively small space. I usually don't find pure space journeys particularly enjoyable, so this exception is all the sweeter.
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The comparison of film and a rollercoaster perfectly suits Marvel blockbusters. The standardised products from the shared workshop of the Marvel Studios and Disney divisions attract viewers with a spectacular ride, which is, however, constructed in a completely mechanical way. Just as fairground machines differ from each other in their effect on one’s emotions only in their scary murals, extravagant names and number of flashing lights, Guardians of the Galaxy is absolutely identical to, for example, Big Hero 6. The narrative construction and dramaturgy, i.e. the rails conveying the audience to the individual emotional hoops and loops, are exactly the same; they differ only in their particular twists and turns. This is most striking in the conclusion, when, immediately after the spectacular climax comes an emotional twist that transforms the given film into a tear-jerker. Distinctive directors are hired for Marvel flicks solely for marketing purposes in order to help create the impression that the individual films are different, but in practical terms, their contribution has the same weight as the authorship of carnies who paint unlicensed portraits of pop-culture icons on midway rides.
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Okay, so at first I thought I'd just switch off and enjoy this popcorn movie. It was going well, but then I ran out of popcorn in the first half and started to focus more on the movie. The music was great, no question about it, so it gets a star for that. The other star is for a successful joke here and there, for some pretty good effects that look like every other Marvel movie or Michael Bay movie... Unfortunately, I got bored from the middle onwards, suddenly this Star Wars parody, which at times played at being more than a parody, lost the charm it had at the beginning. It was like I suddenly woke up from hypnosis. Even though it wasn't New York that was being destroyed, but a city that looked like an amusement park, it oozed American patriotism and the kind of stuff that makes my teeth ache. Of course, some people don't mind it, some people enjoy it and all that. But I'm a bit of a curmudgeon, and I just rolled my eyes for the last half hour. I went to the cinema expecting to be entertained (the ovation on FilmBooster really got me hooked), only to get the same thing I've gotten in other Marvel movies and other American movies where XY is being saved (XY = Earth, the USA, the president’s daughter, Beetle Baggins, ...), and I just wasn't entertained. Yup, my brain. I just didn't want to turn it off and be entertained. So we get a cynical raccoon, we get Prince Hardbody, we got the girl from Avatar, only painted green instead of blue, we got a tree who has the biggest heart out of all of them, and we got a tattooed typhoon who lost his family but found a friend. We've got such a cool crew that you're just guaranteed to have fun, of course!!
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A well-made, snack-size Marvel with several excellent and amazing moments. But the problem is how to introduce so many heroes and still have time for the villains, Ronan therefore comes across as some random diabolic figure who must be defeated for some reason. The good guys are given ample room. Peter Quill as the nice over-grown kid, who beats up a boat full of swines not so much using his fists, but his wily intelligence, is an interesting combination of Han Solo and Tony Stark thanks to Pratt excellent delivery. Zoe does a good tough girl with a kind heart and Bautista’s Drax has unexpectedly become the source of numerous infantile jokes. Diesel’s Groot is the heart of the movie and soon became the darling of the audience, even more than Rocket, the talking raccoon with the rocket launcher who, in psychological terms, is the most thoroughly illustrated hero of the entire movie and his fate interests me the most. A real character. As for the plot, it jumps from place to place, higgledy-piggledy, so that only the most ardent Marvel fan can orient himself in the significance of the planets and the impact on the whole of space. You don’t need to think, just to have fun. Gunn managed to create a great movie to introduce an unusual team. I need his prosthetic leg.
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Das ist eine blödsinnige Geschichte mit allem Drum und Dran. In unseren Gefilden werden die "Guardians" als Comic vor - oder nach dem Film nicht besonders viel gelesen, eigentlich blättern die meisten etwas wegen MCU darin herum (um angeben zu können), aber das war es dann auch schon. Die letzten 50 Jahre dieses Teams haben hier niemanden wirklich vom Hocker gerissen. Wie dem auch sei, hier geht es hier nur um die Niedlichkeit von Groot, das grüne Mädchen Gamora die Songs und die Sprüche, den Waschbären und Star-Lord. Aber natürlich ist das hier geschickt mit der gesamten MCU-Serie verbunden, so dass er vielleicht im Nachhinein wie ein Puzzleteil mit Infinity War zusammenpasst, was der eigentliche Witz ist.
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The story is the traditionally Marvel stuff full of clichés, but the chemistry between the unconventional heroes is great, the wisecracks are good, and the irony is very self-aware. And when you also consider that Zoe Saldana delivers similarly uncompromising and beautiful action scenes like Scarlett Johansson in Captain America: Winter Soldier, you can't help but give a thumbs up. You may not admire the main heroes, but at least you root for them, and that's not something you see very often in the flood of all kinds of comic book adaptations in today's world.
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Der eine ist ein Waschbär, der zweite ein Baum, der dritte versteht keine Metaphern, die vierte ist grün, der fünfte ist zwar ein Mensch, aber kein gewöhnlicher und normal ist er auch nicht. So eine Gruppe von sympathischen Held*innen hat das Marvel-Universum gebraucht. Und so einen Film auch. Guardians of the Galaxy gefällt mir mehr als Avengers – der Film ist abenteuerlich, er hat Action, Witz und Ironie und die Heldinnen und Helden schaffen alles ganz natürlich. Der Film sprüht vor Verspieltheit und guter Laune. Ich habe öfter als bei Iron Man 3 gelacht, welcher bisher das witzigste Werk Made in Marvel war. Die Ausstattung und die Tricks sind großartig. Jeder Science-Fiction-Fan wird begeistert sein, weil z. B. alle Schiffe ausgesprochen schön sind, ganz zu schweigen von den Planeten. Außerdem gibt es hier viele Bezüge zu Comics (ich möchte nur darauf hinweisen, dass "der Hund“ wirklich nicht Laika ist, sondern Cosmo – googeln Sie mal) und anderen Filmen (Rocket und Groot sind wie Han Solo und Chewbacca). Und ganz am Ende… Nein, das werde ich nicht verraten.___PS: Als ich im Abspann gelesen habe, dass während der Dreharbeiten kein Waschbär und kein Baumgeschöpf verletzt wurden, war ich erleichtert.
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Marvel strikes back. Marvel. Previous superhero adventures have already carried strong hints of the irrepressible truth of life that humour gets you the furthest and is also the most engaging, but only this bunch of "the biggest idiots in the galaxy" fully demonstrated the enormous potential that a little self-parody can hold. One wisecrack follows another, the five idiots couldn't be more diverse and likeable, and the story, though one big cliché about a threat to the galaxy, is more than adequate for the film's main purpose, which is to entertain. It's a shame that some of the funny moments feel forced and therefore unconvincing, and the last ten minutes are an even bigger shame, where the main villain, so ruthless and serious up to that point, unexpectedly proves to be an idiot and becomes the butt of the most forced joke of the whole film. But what the hell, we're the fucking guardians of the galaxy, we're funny, we're cute, we're articulate, we listen to eighties music, and if we mess up with someone, we send them a dick pick and everything is OK again. So let's be glad we have them, and look forward to the sequel about Donald Duck, who has a bloodthirsty space dog escape from his lab. That will be a lot of fun :D 80%
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Go for it. There are some great special effects, quite a bit of action, and you'll laugh a lot (in places where the filmmakers want you to). When you leave the cinema you'll fully feel you've had a good time for ten bucks. And it's got a great raccoon. I'm just kind of tired of Marvel managing to profile the target audience and doing exactly the same thing it always does. Plus, when we can't even rely on the death of important supporting characters anymore, and the obligatory action (which is visibly expensive here, but not particularly good) just serves as a transition between comic scenes, I'm really curious to know what the peak of the Marvel blockbuster will be. Btw, the credits for the movie list over 500 names, about a quarter of whom actually did something other than sit at a computer.
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Guardians of the Galaxy ist die beste Filmcrew mit dem süßen Rocket an der Spitze - ja, Bradley hat sich diesmal im Unterschied zu Vin mächtig ins Zeug gelegt. Vin reichten drei Wörter, am Ende hatte er noch zwei mehr als Bonus. Am Freitagabend, wo sich die gesamte Müdigkeit der Woche ansammelt, sind die Guardians of the Galaxy die ideale Medizin, um nicht einzuschlafen. Action, Unterhaltung, Humor, sympathische Gestalten und vor allem eine tolle Idee mit der Musikeinlage aus den Achtzigern. Hooga Chaka! :-)
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Yes, it's popcorn fun, it's sometimes very simple and predictable, but it's just great entertainment and I had an incredible time. The movie, which I didn't expect to be art, gave me exactly what I hoped for. I did think for a moment that James Gunn might go a little off the rails, but Marvel wouldn't allow it. Actually, Disney... For me, the best comic book movie of the year.
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Ich bin kein großer Fan von Marvel-Filmen, aber dieser Film hat mich von den ersten Bildern an überzeugt. Kombinieren Sie gute Laune mit Verbrechern, die zu Helden werden, angeführt von einem Waschbären und einem Baum - das muss man einfach genießen. Vor allem, wenn man in der ernstesten Szene lachen muss, weil Groot einen angeschaut hat... Der Film verdient keine Höchstnoten, denn wie ich schon sagte, bin ich kein Fan von Comics, aber Guardians ist ein sehr gutes Werk. Zu den Effekten gibt es nichts hinzuzufügen - man habt wirklich damit gespielt und es sieht sehr echt aus. Eine Fortsetzung ist in Arbeit, und das werde ich mir sicher nicht entgehen lassen.
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