![]() ![]() The flashbacks are the highlight of the film, but when Rocket inevitably comes out of his coma, there isn’t a lot of follow-through. Rocket’s story also feels more like a sidequest than it should. It’s fantastic, although I’d honestly think twice about bringing young children to see it we have a Bambi situation here, so proceed with caution. ![]() He and his friends are rendered with hand-crafted care by the talented special effects artists and Cooper brings a heartbreaking innocence to his vocal performance. Young Rocket makes friends with his fellow test subjects, proves his worth to the High Evolutionary, and learns about loss in a way that had the whole theater tearing up. While he lies comatose, we get flashbacks of his past he’s a raccoon granted intelligence by the High Evolutionary, a nasty piece of work played with mouth-frothing viciousness by Chukwudi Iwuji. The movie spends most of its energy on Rocket, and yet it’s still not enough. He will die if the other Guardians don’t get him help, so they do. Rocket, the series’ irascible talking war raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper, is injured. They are attacked by a glowing magic space man named Adam Warlock (Will Poulter giving excellent blank-faced deadpan). The Guardians of the Galaxy, a team of space-faring superheroes, are setting down roots on a space station called Knowhere. There’s some setup, and then the characters bounce around like numbered balls in a lottery terminal. Guardians 3 is about…I mean, this isn’t the kind of movie where the plot matters very much. This is an ungainly homunculus of a movie serving at least five different masters, but boy is it lovable. That’s why James Gunn’s brother competes for screen time with a talking Russian dog who competes with Zoe Saldana. That’s why a fleet-footed crowd-pleasing comedy drags on for two-and-a-half hours. That’s how you get a superhero action spectacular featuring prolonged sequences where adorable talking animals are tortured. ![]()
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