Now, this is a film made up of favorite things… I mean, I’m coming up on 1600 words and I haven’t even serious creamed about Dave Bautista’s amazing DRAX THE DESTROYER – who joyfully reminds me of Brian Blessed’s Prince Vultan in FLASH GORDON. When he’s laughing like a jackass through that amazing battle in the skies of Xandar… I was DYING! Indestructable badass that he is, he laughs at the face of a would be death! His very literal character is genius. He also reminds me of the great Rex Ingram in THIEF OF BAGDAD… An all powerful benevolent homicidal maniac… His makeup is magnificent, but it’s everything that Bautista is giving that character… he’s given a wide latitude to have a singular reaction that is all his own throughout the film and god bless James Gunn for it! Absolutely euphorically cool!