Guardians of the Galaxy: a bit of good; a bit of bad; a bit of both.

[lil_shepherd]

Perhaps I went in with too high expectations - I am a great fan of the current comics interpretation of the Guardians - but after the over the top critical reaction to Iron Man 3 (which I really, really disliked, primarily because of a dreadful script devoid (we are told) of any ad libs by RDJ that took superb material and debased it) I do not

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[lil_shepherd]

The whole damn movie is full of in-jokes and references to the Marvel comic universes (as, to be fair, Shakespeare in Love was full of references and in jokes about Elizabethan drama and the life of a modern playwright. Ina and I laughed at the Webster reference too.) For instance, one of the aliens who walks through is a ringer for one of the members of the original 'Guardians of the Galaxy', an entirely different crew. I expect the commentary on the blu-ray/DVD will point out all the references.

Marvel are, of course, heavily limited by other companies owning characters connected with either Spider-man, Fantastic Four or X-Men, though the Marvel comics universe is so interwoven and complex that it results in such things as the use of the Iron Patriot armour by War Machine in Iron Man 3 which confused everyone because in comics it had been worn by Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, a Spider-man villain but at that time head of SHIELD and government enforcer against super-heroes. However, Thanos, the Collector, the Kree in general and Ronan the Accuser, plus the Nova Corps are all closely associated with The Avengers.