'Guardians of the Galaxy' Movie Spoilers: Marvel Releases Dancing Groot Video As Soundtrack Tops Billboard [VIDEO]
Marvel is using the success of their latest film, Guardians of the Galaxy, to show off one of the film's best scenes and one that fans absolutely loved.
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Yahoo released the video of Groot (voiced Vin Diesel) dancing to the Jackson 5's I Want You Back while Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) sharpens his knife. The scene played mid-credits following the movie and took the Internet by storm with people making their very own potted Groot figures.
Diesel's work as Groot was one of the film's crowd-pleasing elements as well as Bradley Cooper's work as Rocket Raccoon, the large talking tree's partner.
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Guardians of the Galaxy is one of Marvel's biggest hits to date, grossing nearly $94 million in its opening weekend. The soundtrack also made waves at the top of the Billboard album chart with hits including the Jackson 5 tune, Blue Swede's Hooked on a Feeling, and David Bowie's Moonage Daydream. The album sold 109,000 copies in its second week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
Directed by James Gunn from a script by Gunn and Nicole Perlman, the film features Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) teaming up with a group of criminals, including Groot, Rocket Raccoon, Gamora (Zoe Saldana), and Drax to rid the universe from Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace). The film also stars Glenn Close, John C. Reilly, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin as the voice of Thanos.
The film got a sequel, which comes to theaters in 2016.