Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is like a party

With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, concludes another trilogy. And what to say about the end (no, we won’t say anything at all). If the entire film is like a party, despite the fact that a beloved character is on the verge of death for much of the screening, the sadness and realization that with this volume 3, everything ends (everything ends?) can leave a strange taste in the Marvel fan’s palate. But no, not like the last one avengers.

But how does a character we thought was dead come back? There’s Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) trying to convince Gamora’s replacement (Zoe Saldana) that they’re a match, and a good match. Or will it be in another multiverse, or in the past, or in the future?

“That person was an alternate future version of me,” explains the twisted (new) Gamora. Well, that’s about as twisted as you’ve ever seen and/or heard Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

Set in the farthest reaches of space. the foundation on which the volume 3 is that Rocket is badly injured. Bah, he’s about to die, and the only way to save the life of the anthropomorphic raccoon who speaks with the voice of Bradley Cooper is for all Guardians to fight against a huge corporation (OrgCorp), which is run by a despot, and that apparently looking for a better life, but which is crueler than a VAR in the 95th minute of any game.

They were all living more or less peacefully in Knowhere, which is the name of the headquarters of the Guardians, when Rocket is attacked by Adam Warlock (Will Poulter, from mid summer AND narnia), a superpowered being, the golden-skinned son of Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki). He was sent by the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji, of pacifierby James Gunn, yes), who was the one who turned Rocket into 89P13, a brilliant and somewhat bitter biped.

Well, time has passed and without spoiling too much, he needs to get the raccoon back. It’s that he’s obsessed with repopulating an Earth-like planet, but with the most advanced form of various animal species.

The film is a continuous coming and going in the present in space and in Rocket’s rather tragic past, to understand his origins, to meet his friends – others, not the Guardians, but animals with which the High Evolutionary has experimented.

With Rocket mortally wounded, the rest of the Guardians embark on a mission to essentially steal his medical records from the High Evolutionary, for without them he is lost. So Star-Lord, Nebula (Karen Gillan), Drax (Dave Bautista), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) are giving it their all and giving it their all, as they beat everything in their way, to get to the heart of the company and retrieve the medical records.

Pay attention to combat, mock shot in one take, long shot. It’s the best we’ve seen in a Marvel film in years, or at least in this Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

All this, in two and a half hours (post-credit scenes -and legend…- included)? All of this, and it also feels stretched, because the film has a pace that puts it up there, and the 150 minutes go by like nothing.

Yes, the characters that have come to the MCU almost, almost as par(e)dias of the other superheroes with a poster and even their own films, from Iron Man to Captain America or Thor, which were initially seen as a group of scoundrels, more or less sarcastic, more or less spoiled.

Well, those 2014 Guardians, today, are the most beloved characters in Phase 4 of the MCU. James Gunn has managed, obviously counting independently, to make a trilogy that, while it is related to the MCU, is run more or less by its own rules. Good for him. This is also called an author, and the three Guardians of the Galaxy They have his stamp.

Or it’s unreasonable to imagine that Gunn enjoyed it Star Wars original, that for him Star-Lord is a kind of Han Solo, Groot, Chewbacca and Mantis, Nebula and Drax are that support of comic relief necessary in comedies, whether or not they’re adventures like this?

Aren’t they species that coexist, as also happened in the universe imagined by George Lucas?

Gunn, along with the Russo brothers (the last two of avengers, among others) are the filmmakers who have best understood this of entertaining with action, but adding a certain dose of drama to it. Well, OK, Gunn until this movie, not so much, because stuff about him tends to be more wacky and funny and politically incorrect.

But Gunn, who has already left Marvel to now be DC’s top dog in terms of conceiving new movies, from Batman to Superman, is a guy whose ideas start as jokes in Tangalanga. So this closure, as we have already said, is a party among friends.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3”

Action/Comedy. United States, 2023. Original title: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. 150′, SAM 13 R. From: James Gunn. With: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper. Rooms: IMAX, Hoyts Abasto and Unicenter, Cinemark Palermo, Cinépolis Recoleta and Pilar, Showcase Belgrano.