A review of the movie “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3”
I’m a loyal fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), so I wasn’t going to miss this 32nd contribution to the long-running and ever-sprawling saga. Also the Guardians of the Galaxy (GOTG) characters have always been the funniest in the MCU and this volume was billed as their final one as the current team.There was three years between the first two movies and then six between the last one and this one, so it’s been almost a decade in which Quill, Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket have become like friends with other many characters joining along the way.
Director and writer James Gunn always loads up his superhero movies with multiple characters and storylines with acres of action sequences and tons of loud music (often at the same time), so I frequently struggle to follow all that is going on and to remember all the relationships between the different characters but, this time, the central theme is clear and appealing: Rocket – always my favourite character – is dying and to save him the team has to tackle Rocket’s creator, a character called the The High Evolutionary.
In the process, we are given Rocket’s back story and meet more cute animals than you’ve ever seen in a MCU movie. It’s mayhem, it’s mad, but it’s a blast.