Karen is just what the Doctor ordered

isn’t your typical summer blockbuster. Two of the heroes are a tree and a talking raccoon. No, I’m not joking. It sounds a wee bit likeWind in the Willows crossed with The Empire Strikes Back.

The Rocket Raccoon character is voiced by Hangover star Bradley Cooper. Surely playing a rodent was never part of his career plan?

“I could only dream of it,” he laughed.

“I just liked Rocket’s whole view on life and how his empathetic character eventually wins over the anger.”

An angry raccoon sounds a bit daft, but Guardians of the Galaxy is actually great fun, and it should do well at the box office. And Hollywood needs this to be a success.

What do Transformers 4, Godzilla, X- Men, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have in common?

Well, three things — the first is they’re all this year’s Hollywood summer blockbusters.

The second is that none of them, so far, have done particularly well at the box office.

None have massively flopped either, but there’s been no standout runaway successes such as Avengers Assemble, or Despicable Me 2 have been in the past few years.

The third thing in common is that all of these films are either sequels or remakes.

It’s become standard practice these days for Hollywood to play it safe and go for a tried and tested franchise or a reboot of a recognisable character.

The studio money men generally don’t like gambling — and who could blame them when it comes to spending £100 million to make a movie?

This is what makes Guardians of the Galaxy such a fascinating punt.

The concept is a gang of bounty hunters in outer space – so it’s fairly daft. But it’s got razor-sharp comedy crossed with stunning action.

They really have managed to pull off an interesting movie with this one.

And I’m just surprised Marvel have managed to get a decent film out of yet another one of their comics.

There’s hope for The Broons Movie yet!

RUMOURS galore about the state of Beyonce’s marriage to Jay Z this week. They’re on tour together at the moment – and it brings in around a

cool £3.5 million PER NIGHT. The worldwide jaunt ends in Septem

ber in the City of Love, Paris. Hopefully it’ll be romantic ending to the tour but, then again, you just never know what goes on behind closed doors. Unless of course they’re

elevator doors!