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Guardians of the Galaxy

When things get bad, they'll do their worst.

2014 · 2h 1m · PG-13 Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by James Gunn

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Overview

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.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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All reviews
91%
Tomatometer
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.

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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
Rotten

These meager pleasures are swallowed up in all the frantic action and overblown CG sequences.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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
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

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