![]() ![]() The whole Guardians series owes director James Gunn bigtime, and it's a shame to see him move on (but I'm looking forward to seeing what he'll be able to do over at DC). Rocket is now elevated to a tragic, substantial figure at practically the same level as Spider-Man, and that's saying a lot. Mantis and Nebula in particular are better characters than they were before, Quill and Gamora and Drax are as good as ever, and the choice to make Rocket and his very extended backstory the mainspring of the plot was clever - and by the end, it carried real weight. ![]() I liked that all of them, this time around, get their well deserved fair share of screen time, and if doing that means sitting through a pretty long movie, then fine. Quite appropriately, all the attention is really on our scruffy, argumentative, and lovable heros, the Guardians. (Seems like that would have been a perfect for Thanos to say.) Oddly though, for once there's no real backstory for the High Evolutionary, as there usually is for Marvel villains, but that might have been just too much material. ![]() That's why I stepped in." I have to admit, this is one of THE best lines ever spoken by a supervillain - it concisely captures their whole reason for being. ![]()
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