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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By now, you will likely know the drill.\u00a0 A truly weird team of humans, aliens and animals and a talking tree team up to \u2018guard the galaxy\u2019 which at times needs guarding from them!. This third and apparently final episode is 2 hours and 30 minutes long, which by the way is too long, with long dragged out blow em up scenes, and frankly doesn\u2019t have the same verve and humor for the most part as the first two.\u00a0 And then there is the music\u2014 not really familiar classic rock with one or two small exceptions (like Heart\u2019s Barracuda) but then perhaps they couldn\u2019t get permissions this time to use some of the real classic hits.\u00a0 Basically, this episode focuses on Rocket Raccoon (not to be confused with Paul McCartney\u2019s Rocky Raccoon) and gives his back story.\u00a0 \u00a0There is also an update on the strange and estranged relationship between the Star Lord and Zoe Green skin.\u00a0 Along the way there is social commentary on the problems with genetic and indeed even human engineering in trying to speed up evolution and create a perfect world, and at one juncture the bad guy stresses \u2018there is no God which is why I had to step in\u2019.\u00a0 Unfortunately there are actually people out there who think like that.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly I don\u2019t agree with the reviews that suggest this is an instant classic or the best thing since Avengers End Game.\u00a0 It has some good moments, (Groot aka Vin Diesel actually gets to say something other than I am Groot), but what carries me through the film is I like the main characters that are Guardians.\u00a0 I could have used more of the lady Mentis who presents us with a kind figure.\u00a0 \u00a0 Some of the alien creatures, especially the bad guys, are interesting, but most are just unappealing and one doesn\u2019t have a lot of empathy for them. And we could have done without the guy with the bronzer tan and his mom.\u00a0 They really add nothing to the storyline.\u00a0 Of course this is sci-fi fiction but when certain figures should have been dead 3,4,5 times ago considering what blows they took, one grows weary of suspending your disbelief.\u00a0 \u00a0Some verisimilitude would have been nice.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully there will be some better summer movies than this one, maybe the new Indiana Jones, but I\u2019m not holding my breath.\u00a0 The over-reliance on CG and spectacular explosions and fight scenes quickly wears out its welcome for this reviewer.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you will likely know the drill.\u00a0 A truly weird team of humans, aliens and animals and a talking tree team up to \u2018guard the galaxy\u2019 which at times needs guarding from them!. 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