It works like glue throughout the film, like connective tissue, pulling each little bit you’ve ever remembered about this rag-tag team and placing it neatly in order for you to experience again. So when this family of weirdos is put to a real test, one that threatens all of their lives in ways we haven't seen before, what comes through the cracks is this pure and natural love and passion. We all know everyone so deeply, we’ve grown to love them all, grown to admire their found family. ITs something only a movie following two parts, like this one, can pull off. Each performance is nuanced and intense, emotional and gripping. Truly, everyone in this movie is acting their whole asses off. The High Evolutionary is a despicable, maniacal, monster of a man and each moment he is on screen your skin crawls. A villain portrayed brilliantly by Chukwudi Iwuji, and a villain that outshines so many villains in the MCU purely because of his acting. The film is framed around flashbacks illuminating Rocket’s journey under the knife and eye of the High Evolutionary. It’s a race against the clock film, with a little globetrotting heist film stirred in.Īlong this journey we are served up dollops of emotion. This initial and shocking attack sends the guardians on a quest to save the life of a mortally wounded member. Enter one of Marvel’s most powerful and heroes Adam Warlock, only the Warlock is here not to help, but as a repo man for the fabled High Evolutionary, the madman who turned Rocket into the creature he is today. Starlord is out of it, drinking himself into a stupor, the rest of the team is just kind of milling about in Knowhere, and the mood is pretty stale. We also fully establish that Starlord isn't doing well with the death/return/departure of Gamora. When the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special came out Thanksgiving weekend last year, we got to see Knowhere (the Guardians’ base) rebuilt, and the introduction of Cosmo the Space Dog. We saw them off in Endgame, traveling with a disheveled and melancholic Thor, and then in Thor: Love and Thunder we saw them unload the God of Thunder, moving on to do their own thing. It’s been a while since we last saw The Guardians.
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