Trailer Tuesday: Guardians of the Galaxy

The Wha?

From left: Girl Shrek, Pizza Guy, Rabies, Purple Shrek, and Treebeard

I don't know about you, but I had never heard of Guardians of the Galaxy until I heard that the movie was coming out. The trailer finally dropped last Tuesday night during Jimmy Kimmel.  I wasn't waiting up that late and reviewed another trailer instead. The title of the movie sounded plenty geeky, so I took a closer look and and realized it's a MARVEL story.  If you aren't blind and def to the world, you might have noticed that MARVEL has been doing pretty well with their movies since Iron Man came out.  The success of comic book movies in general has lead to more and more being made and they actually seem to be getting better, with only a few exceptions.  

You can't WILL this shit to be good.

So characters I have never heard of in a story I have no clue about voiced by some pretty recognizable actors?  Sounds awesome!  Let's take a look at the Guardians trailer:

First impressions?  It looks really cool with just enough funny. My favorite thing about this so far might just be the cast and we basically get a quick intro to each of them in the first part of the trailer.  We start with Chris Pratt playing the role of Starlord.  The name seems to be kind of a self-given one and mostly a joke to everyone else kind of like Captain Jack Sparrow at the beginning of Pirates of the Carribbean.  Chris Pratt is coming off another movie I really liked playing the lead role of Emmet in The LEGO Movie.  Drax is next.  He's a big muscly dude played by big muscly dude David Bautista.  I was introduced to him when I used to watch WWE.  I have seen him also in some things recently, most notably Riddick, where he wasn't bad in his supporting role.  Another casting choice I'm excited about is Zoe Saldana as Gamora.  Over the years she has become one of my favorite actresses.  It appears she is working her way through the rainbow as she now is playing what appears to be a green alien.

Blue was fun!  

The next two are quite a pair.  First is Rocket Raccoon.  You heard me.  Rocket Freakin' Raccoon.  He's the one in the middle at the top of the post, if you couldn't guess already.  Voiced by Bradley Cooper, he might be redeemed.  Not going to even lie, when I first saw there was a raccoon instead of even just some made-up alien, I was very skeptical.  We'll see how it comes together, but if that's the worst part of this movie I might still walk away loving it.  Lastly is a character we may recognize from Lord of the Rings.  What's that's that?  It's not really Treebeard?  Shoot, he was a dead ringer for him.  Anyway, he's voiced by Vin Diesel and the character's real name is Groot.  Like Root with a "G."  I could be mistaken, but I believe this is Vin's first time back in voice acting since The Iron Giant.

Hopefully he has more lines...

Now, I have to say there is one actress that I am very excited about being in this movie that many of you probably don't know.  If you are a fan of Doctor Who, and you really really should be, you will recognize the name Karen Gillan.  She's the cute, ginger, Scottish (and did I mention cute?) companion who followed the 11th Doctor around for 2 and a half seasons.  As with the show, I will love her forever and am excited to see her in a role outside the show.  I have no idea how big of a part she plays, but the character's name is Nebula and if you didn't know what to look for, you probably missed her.  She went completely bald for the role to end up looking like this:

Still cute.

This trailer was really great and I can't wait for another to see some more.  If the movie was released tomorrow, I'd go even knowing nothing about the story itself.  I'm not banking on it being the best MARVEL has ever made, but for a semi-obscure title i think it's going to hit it's mark.  It has a great cast, and appears to not take itself too seriously.  I can certainly pick up a sort of Pirates vibe to it.  Pirates in space.  I have to say, I trust Disney with what they have put out in regards to comic book movies.  With that said, I am going to remain hopefully optimistic about Guardians of the Galaxy and hope that it knocks my socks off.

That damn raccoon gets me every time...