Kev's Reviews

The Guardians Skylord and the band of humanoid misfits in this pulp-fiction sci-fi adventure from Marvel Studios as they are drafted by a powerful alien hierarchy called the Sovereign to guard precious batteries from invaders. When Rocket is caught stealing the sets, the Sovereign dispatch an armada after the Guardians as an act of vengeance. In escaping the all-powerful regime, Peter finds his father. Naturally, Peter is conflicted with emotions about his estranged father - elated to find him, betrayed that his father had left him and his mother in the first place, hesitant toward this stranger. Now, the first film was clean, crisp and  lively with smart quips from Rocket and Drax. "I t’s the same combination of cartoony action and intergalactic screwball with some ambient production design recalling the photorealist sci-fi imagery of Roger Dean or Chris Foss in a bygone age, creating a visual sense of earnestness to offset the archly retro pop culture gags," writes ...

A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a radical warrior from seizing control of the universe. Sound familiar? Like the Lucas-Spielberg space-odyssey-based collaboration that is Star Wars and the adventures of Captain James Kirk of Star fleet in Star Trek, Stan Lee's comic book-based sci-fi adventure is the little nerdy boy who wants to be in the cool group. The Hans-Solo wannabe Chris Pratt as the easy-going space-cowboy Peter Quill, who finds himself in a quarry of bounty hunters after stealing an orb coveted by the evil Ronan (I had flashbacks of Indiana Jones watching this part of the story unfold). Evading R onan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with four disparate misfits: gun-toting Rocket Raccoon, treelike-humanoid Groot,  an  enigmatic Gamora, and a vengeance-driven Drax the Destroyer.   But, of course, as Quill inevitably finds out, the orb is not just a valuable artifact . Rather , it's a cosmic threat to the universe ...