![]() ![]() Hurled into a new fight against a new caped, gilded superfoe ( Will Poulter) to save Knowhere, the rustic spaceport and Guardians HQ, Rocket gets badly hurt. Star Lord Peter ( Chris Pratt) has crawled into a bottle since his ex-assasin love Gamora ( Zoe Saldana, Best in Class, Best in Cast) died and came back all cynical and all business with no memory of ever being in love with the dorky human whose taste in music is locked in the early ’80s. And he’s decided to leave Marvel with a Rocket - the violent, wise-ass and tech-savvy raccoon who doesn’t think he’s a “raccoon” - origin story. The laughs are fewer and farther between as writer-director James Gunn bids this career-making franchise farewell and tries to transport his jokes-that-take-no-prisoners tone over to Warner Bros. ![]() All that’s missing is Sarah McLachlan singing underneath pictures of neglected and abused puppies, the only “on-the-nose” song missing from the usual “Original Hits, Original Stars” soundtrack. A little.īut at some point, as we revisit “Volume 3’s” major subtext - grimly cruel animal testing - for the umpteenth time, the viewer is forced to realize that a roller coaster is just a piece of engineering designed to deliver frights and breathless simulations of near-death-experience dangers for our entertainment.Īt some point, these suffering, doomed and dewey-eyed digital critters are just ham-fisted manipulations that aren’t so much moving as triggering. If you’re the least bit attached to these characters, you can’t helped but be moved. It’s safe to say that “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3” is an emotional roller-coaster, a fan-friendly ride through “the feels” that puts our motley, space-traveling crew in peril and revisits old trauma as it does.
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