--- title: Guardians of the Galaxy Honest Trailer description: An honest trailer for Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy." canonical: https://time.com/3626511/guardians-of-the-galaxy-honest-trailer/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-09T22:54:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:16.124Z og:title: WATCH: Honest Trailer for 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Makes Fun of Marvel og:description: An honest trailer for Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy." og:url: https://time.com/3626511/guardians-of-the-galaxy-honest-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Honest Trailer for 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Makes Fun of Marvel twitter:description: An honest trailer for Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Honest Trailer for _Guardians of the Galaxy_ Takes a Stab at Marvel > Sponsored content. 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Dec 9, 2014 10:54 PM UTC The “honest trailer” for Marvel’s _Guardians of the Galaxy_ is more of a jab at Marvel than it is a roast of the movie itself. Suggesting that the movie was the product of the production company scraping “the bottom of the barrel for the obscure ‘70s comic book that barely anyone read,” the team at [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyJqGtP-wU) calls it “Marvel’s attempt at _Star Wars_” and “Marvel Space Avengers.” The video points out how similar the _Guardians_ characters are to other Marvel characters (Drax and Thor, Groot and the Hulk, Rocket and Iron Man), but concedes, “It’s technically not stealing if they’re ripping off themselves.” The mockery is all in good fun. Even the narrator pauses for a moment to admit, “We’re really reaching here. 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