Other than Spider-Man: No Way Home, and a couple of average films, the 4 years since Avengers: Endgame have been pretty weak fir Marvel. Though watchable, the films have been almost completely forgettable. What made Marvel films great in the first couple of phases was al.ost gone. They weren't even films anymore. Not special, just the continuation of a formula.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is mostly what made Marvel films so popular. Entertaining action films but with enough heart and characters that we care about to make them memorable. When Guardians Vol. 1 came out no one new that it would become as popular as it did. It was a very funny, energetic film that gained a great following. Vol.2 wasnt as good but the cast and director James Gunn and the willing cast made it entertaining. With Vol.3 we have supposedly the last Guardians film. And after seeing it it just might be better than even rblhe first one. Everyone is back, including director Gunn. Everyone knows that now he will be in charge of the DC universe and if he can bring his energy to those films it would be a good thing.
The focus of this film is Rocket. He has been captured and on the verge of death so his friends go to save him. The film focuses veryuch on Rocket's origin story. The villain this time is the High Evolutionary. A highly intelligent being that wants to create the perfect society. He experiments on animals but destroys them as soon as they don't meet his perfect standards. Rocket was one of his experiments. He showed great intelligence. He was able to escape and become a Guardian but High Evolutionary wants to study his brain so that he could again, create the perfect beings for his next society.
All of the cast is really good. The tone of this film is more darker than the other two entries but there is still the great banter between the characters and the film has some great laughs. But this film has a lot heart. There some really good dramatic moments and feels like there are some stakes here. So we care about what happens on the screen. That has been lacking in most Marvel films lately.
A really enjoyable, and endearing 3rd film in one of Marvel's most surprising stand alone films.
Grade: B+
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is mostly what made Marvel films so popular. Entertaining action films but with enough heart and characters that we care about to make them memorable. When Guardians Vol. 1 came out no one new that it would become as popular as it did. It was a very funny, energetic film that gained a great following. Vol.2 wasnt as good but the cast and director James Gunn and the willing cast made it entertaining. With Vol.3 we have supposedly the last Guardians film. And after seeing it it just might be better than even rblhe first one. Everyone is back, including director Gunn. Everyone knows that now he will be in charge of the DC universe and if he can bring his energy to those films it would be a good thing.
The focus of this film is Rocket. He has been captured and on the verge of death so his friends go to save him. The film focuses veryuch on Rocket's origin story. The villain this time is the High Evolutionary. A highly intelligent being that wants to create the perfect society. He experiments on animals but destroys them as soon as they don't meet his perfect standards. Rocket was one of his experiments. He showed great intelligence. He was able to escape and become a Guardian but High Evolutionary wants to study his brain so that he could again, create the perfect beings for his next society.
All of the cast is really good. The tone of this film is more darker than the other two entries but there is still the great banter between the characters and the film has some great laughs. But this film has a lot heart. There some really good dramatic moments and feels like there are some stakes here. So we care about what happens on the screen. That has been lacking in most Marvel films lately.
A really enjoyable, and endearing 3rd film in one of Marvel's most surprising stand alone films.
Grade: B+