In Gunn's closing of the trilogy, his writing and direction exhibits a barbed animosity for his characters the aw-shucks millennial humour that's become the bane of virtually everyone's existence is replaced by a bitter - and surprisingly violent - undercurrent. If that sounds like a departure from the zany but shallow fun of previous Guardians installments (and virtually everything else on the Marvel big screen lately), that's because it is. How Fatal Attraction and the erotic thriller seduced a new generation of fans.Quantumania introduces a major new villain but shrinks Ant-Man's appeal.And taking care of him is Bradley Cooper's Rocket, perhaps the most depressed creature of the bunch.
Quill, meanwhile, is drowning himself in alcohol at the very start of a self-pitying character arc that develops into something more off-putting than humanizing. Here, the journey is less about them finding strength in one another, and more about that relationship wilting on the vine. Mantis (Pom Klementieff) and Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) bump up against one another in the compelling-enough friendship b-plot that already found its zenith in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. After the events of Endgame, Gamora (Zoe Saldaña) no longer remembers past love interest Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), and is instead employed as a Ravager - essentially a space pirate - under the guidance of the still confusingly underused Sylvester Stallone. 3 continues the friends-are-family ethos at the group's centre since the beginning. Finale of trilogy a dark departureĪs to the plot, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the first sign in a while that Marvel might actually have some genuine enjoyment left in the tank.
Now that nearly every other cinematic release reads like a holding pattern until they finally get around to mutants, Guardians Vol. 2 a unique voice, even when its contemporaries were relatively strong. It's one of the earliest MCU properties still putting out movies, and (though James Gunn is not the only director with writing credits) one of only two solely written and directed by the same person.
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