“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3″ was finally revealed to its first audience, with its Hollywood premiere and press screenings Thursday night (27). The first reactions are coming ahead of the film’s May 5th release.
This is the latest Marvel Studios film from writer-director James Gunn, who became a top director with the first Guardians of the Galaxy film and has risen to co-head DC Studios for years to come.
The film stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff and Sean Gunn, along with newcomers Will Poulter and Chukwudi Iwuji.
Much of the cast has been together for a decade now, and that’s the end of the road for many of them. Bautista and Saldaña have stated that they are tired of their characters. “I don’t think this is the end for the Guardians. It’s the end for me, for Gamora,” Saldaña told The Hollywood Reporter of “Guardians 3.”
In the same feature, Pratt reflects on the ending and how it relates to the cast. “I’ve had jobs where I’ve been so close to people, then the job ends and I never see them again. And it does,” Pratt says, before adding after a pause, “I don’t think it’s going to happen to us.”
Set sometime after the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” tells the action-packed story and flashbacks of how Rocket Raccoon’s life is in grave danger, giving the rest of the Guardians a reason to unite and really start working through some of the emotional issues that have dogged them since ‘Avengers: Endgame’”.
With Thanos dead and the universe largely restored, things are going relatively well in Knowhere, the severed celestial head from which Rocket, Drax, Mantis, Groot, Nebula, Kraglin, and Cosmo operate as the newest incarnation of the Guardians.
As it bounces between past and present, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” often feels like a movie full of ideas, good and bad, and does everything in its power to make them work in no time, even if the movie runs longer than two hours.
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Like The Verge’s opinion above, most critics received the film very well. Praise for the handling of the story, the affection we have for Rocket’s past, plus the great impression when watching the film in the best possible technology (IMAX).
Of course, like “Avengers: Endgame” and “Spider-Man: Never Go Home”, “Guardians Vol. 3” has a lot of nostalgia and sadness about the end of a cycle.
To that end, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ manages to convey its eponymous heroes in a way that feels thematically “right” for a trilogy that has always been about misfits who reunite with the help of their found families and march to the beat of the their own strange drums.
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Below, check out other press opinions that accompanied the preview:
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