(Zoe Saldana here plays an alternate-timeline version of her character Gamora, whom we met back in the first film long story.) They've added some new faces to their roster, one of which is technically an old face. As a team, they've always leaned more into mercenary violence and bro-ish banter than anything so hopelessly quaint as heroism, though they do tend to wind up saving the day, despite themselves. 3 is pitched as a sendoff to the rag-tag gang of misfits first introduced in James Gunn's 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy, who've since cropped up in several corners of the MCU. I can't help thinking it could have used.just you know a lot more vivisection," then rest assured your tastes have finally been catered to, you sicko freak.īut first: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. So I say this to a vanishingly small subset of you: If you've ever found yourself walking out of an Marvel movie and said to yourself, "I liked it. Looking for street-level angst? Cosmic sweep? Paranoid thrillers? Mystic mumbo-jumbo? Sitcom satires? Gods and monsters? Coming-of-age dramas? Subatomic shenanigans? Afro-futurist utopias? Whatever the hell Eternals was supposed to be? The MCU has something for you.īut maybe, after all these years, you find that your own very particular Marvel itch remains somehow unscratched. And while critics can and do bemoan the surface similarities these disparate properties tend to share, the strength of the MCU remains how much variation it manages to offer up in tone, scope, stakes and subject matter. We're neck-deep into Phase 5 now, after all we've had dozens of movies and streaming series and one-off specials. What, in your mind, is the Marvel Cinematic Universe still missing? L to R: Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Drax (Dave Bautista), Quill (Chris Pratt) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) go for a walk in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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