With whatever's going on behind the scenes over at Marvel with their Ant-Man debacle, the good news is that James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy opens soon, and it looks just wonderful.  A new TV spot just dropped today to remind us of that fact.  It features a thief (Chris Pratt's Peter Quill, aka Star Lord), two thugs (Rocket Raccoon and the tree-like Groot, voiced by Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel respectively), an assassin (the lovely Zoe Saldana as the deadly Gamora), and a maniac (Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer).

Also starring Benicio Del ToroKaren GillanDjimon HounsouJohn C. ReillyPeter SerafinowiczMichael Rooker, and Glenn Close, the film opens in 3D on August 1st.  Hit the jump to watch the new Guardians of the Galaxy TV spot.

Check out the newly released Guardians of the Galaxy TV spot below:

Here’s the official synopsis for Guardians of the Galaxy:

From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team – the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed epic space adventure, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits – Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Peter discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand – with the galaxy’s fate in the balance. Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” is presented by Marvel Studios. The film releases August 1, 2014, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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