After billowing through one unfortunate job termination, followed by an immediate reinstatement by the House of Mouse, writer/director James Gunn has returned to the place he helped reshape and kept his decade-long promise to deliver his emotionally-charged trilogy capper for the Guardians of the Galaxy, closing the door on yet another glorious era of the MCU.
The heart and soul of these movies has always been Rocket Raccoon, who finally gets his due in this new entry, where we finally…
When the House of Mouse gives the live-action remake treatment to the animated classic that single-handedly saved their asses from oblivion back in the late 80s and ushered in a new renaissance era of breathtaking animation, there's a whole lot that could've gone horribly wrong. And while there is a great deal of things to nitpick throughout (birds breathe underwater? Is Javier Bardem falling asleep in this? Why is Ursula's domain and the final battle so fuckin' dark and hard…
A brief conversation I heard after the movie...
FRIEND #1: "Was that really Bert Kreischer's dad?"
FRIEND #2: "Dude! That was Mark Hamill, you dumbass!"
