I could have seen this on Wednesday but I wanted too late to get tickets, so I had to wait until Thursday! Oh no, the agony!
Rocket gets hurt and so starts the plot to save Rocket, which involves going into the backstory of Rocket. If you've seen some scenes already on YouTube, you know this is going deep into the animal harm side of things and...
Animal abuse is a bad thing. Let's get that out of the way. But this is entirely presented in a very PG way, and with CGI animals (because doing anything with real animals would be insane), so while yes it is terrible... it feels a lot of "tell don't show" (and showing is not a good idea), but the movie very definitely beats us around the head about it without letting the audience just get there on their own. Fine, but if you already get that message, this is just shouting in your face.
We also get the issue of overloading the characters. As well as the main Guardians, we have all the other characters that the movies have included over the years, and they need to get their own character arcs (which might be brief and obvious, but they are still crammed in there). Some plot lines could easily have been excised and only improved the overall pacing (eg the entire Warlock thread).
I've already heard a lot of people love this, and I'm sure Marvel are already wishing James Gunn would hang around, but DC have him now, so time for them to put out good movies.
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