![]() It is a few years after the events of Avengers: Endgame, and our ragtag group of heroes is trying to recover from the events of that film, in which they lost one of their own, the green-skinned warrior Gamora (Zoe Saldana), to the mad titan Thanos. In the beginning, Gunn creates his own weirdo space heaven. ![]() The result is a beautifully frustrating mess of a capstone to Gunn’s Marvel career, a love letter mistakenly employed as a scrap of toilet paper. ![]() It is as if the MCU higher-ups got wind of what was going down and quickly engineered a black hole of studio notes to suck the Guardians into a tesseract of meaningless set pieces and prolonged B-plot detours. ![]() Marvel Studios/Courtesy of Marvel Studiosīecause at around the hundred-minute mark, everything in Gunn’s perfect little cinematic galaxy falls apart in a magnificently depressing fashion. Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Conceived and executed like it’s a real-deal movie and not an algorithmically programmed piece of intellectual property, Gunn’s film features a story whose narrative beats dovetail with its characters’ development, a visual sensibility that is singular in its disparate and estimable influences, a killer soundtrack, and an overall commitment to wringing the best elements of comic-book craziness into a cinematic ride that is transfixing, transporting. 3 arrives as a breath of fresh cosmic air from writer-director James Gunn, inarguably the most talented filmmaker working in the superhero business today.īig-hearted in its emotions, imaginative in its world-building, sly in its comedic beats and almost completely untethered to the grinding gears of the larger MCU continuity machine, this new entry in the GOTG series single-handedly rescues the reputation of a mega-franchise whose wear and tear is increasingly hard to ignore. After a string of high-profile disappointments for the Marvel Cinematic Universe – including the underwhelming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the ugly and interminable Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() Oh, thank Groot: We finally have a Marvel movie that is worth the many hundreds of millions of dollars that have been thrown at it. ![]()
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