**The Awesome:**

- It features the best band of characters Marvel ever created in my opinion, I actually care about every one of the Guardians. Their fate makes me anxious. They all had a chance to shine too which is awesome.
- It has heart. Because of the characters but also because of Rocket's backstory it gave it an emotional edge. Almost made me tear up a couple times. Definitely one of the most memorable backstories in the Marvel universe.
- Absolutely love the darker tone, there was potencial for a horror movie there!
- Comedy was awesome, I was laughing constantly. Nebula, Drax and Mantis always deliver for me but pretty much every character made some good humor at some point.
- The High Evolutionary was a great villain to hate, I wanted to punch him in the face. Hasn't happened in a long time in a Marvel movie.
- This has to be the most pro animal protection movie i've ever seen.
- The corridor fight scene was epic, I didn't want it to end.
- Great design for the cyborg animals, couldn't get enough of them.

**What I didn't like:**

- The stakes weren't high enough. It didn't feel like the end of a trilogy but rather an adventure that leads to maybe a conclusion in a Chapter 4.
- Too long, like a good 30 minutes too long. I can't say it used the runtime to it's advantage either, lots of character arcs feel unfinished. Wanted more development for Rocket in the present.
- The soundtrack. Of course I love the songs used and this has been a thing for all movies in the trilogy. It just felt like none of them were earned compared to how they used them in the previous movies. There's too many of them and most feel jarring and unnecessary.
- I cringed at the ending, like Florence + the Machine but the whole dancing was too much for me. I wanted to sink into my seat from too much cringe.
- Too safe, not that I wanted people to die but I kinda did... I wanted to be emotionally damaged sinse this is the end.

**Just thoughts:**

- They didn't go for the obvious happy ending love story between Quill and Gamora. Cheers, but at the same time it felt like they barely talked about anything which was a weird direction. Wanted more interactions.
- One of my favorite moments is when Nebula realizes Rocket had it worse than her. Pure gold. It would have been interesting to see them have a talk, I just feel like these two have a lot in common. I believe Nebula respects Rocket to some extent now, which is an interesting development for her character.
- Bold of Marvel to call this their last Guardians movie, this is a cash cow and you need to milk it as much as possible!
- The new Guardians team intrigue me, a spin-off movie would be welcome. Had no idea what that little girl was doing there though.

Gunn’s humor is more miss than hit for me, I think, and I think you can tell he and many others were ready to move on. There’s some creative action sequences especially using Nebula, but some of the comedy is almost perfunctory and Gunn going through the motions before going after his DC passion. And Bautista makes his material work, and there’s a nice bow to it that made it click for me, but he’s still underserved and clearly ready for meatier stuff.

But the Rocket stuff? That hits. That’s what he’s still invested in, and Rocket has always- from the movies to the Telltale game- been far and away what I’m most invested in with the Guardians. It’s raw, honest stuff showing his growth and getting into something more traumatic than the usual MCU fare. Iwuji delivers as the villain, a man who’s idea of perfection is himself, and everything else can strive only to his design. The entitlement and indignation is palpable on his face and every movement, and it makes for the most cathartic villain defeat.

But what really sold me in the end was the finality. Resisting the cliche heroic sacrificial death and easy closure of the Avengers. People change. People move on. And you have to move forward. It’s so rare for this mega franchise to do. Guardians is, except for maybe Coogler and Panther, the most personal and tied to its director. It’s a shame to see it go, an end to an older era of Marvel when the current one is so impersonal and sanded down and made by producers and execs. But it’s also a relief to see it go on its own terms, as it’s own flawed fun messy thing.

I did indeed enjoy this movie but I have to say that I would have enjoyed it even more if it had not been such a comedy superhero movie.

It is full of silly, cringeworthy and, as usual with Hollywood nowadays, not very intelligent attempts at humor. Slapstick at best and mostly just annoying. Certainly not very funny a lot of the time. Sure occasionally I did laugh but that was about one out of three times.

And do not get me started about Quill. He’s a stupid, unfunny jerk. He so drags down these movies.

The movie does deliver when it comes to one very important aspect of superhero movies though and this is of course the action and special effects. I really liked them and most of my enjoyment of this movie came from this.

The story is actually quite okay though and it was kind of cool to get the story about Rocket.

The bad guy, well, he is really one of the best parts of this movie. Finally they managed to put together a real bonafide, megalomaniac, psychopathic and genocidal bad guy with lots of (bad) charisma.

Even if he, despite being a genius in creating all kinds of biological creations, including new species, could not fix his own face instead of wearing a silly latex mask. Seriously? That just the usual dumbass Hollywood script writing.

Overall though, this was a fun, special effects loaded, action roller coaster and, surprisingly enough when it comes to Marvel, not loaded with woke preaching.

And it was cool to see Sylvester Stallone again even if it was just briefly.

If they had toned down the silliness, or gotten someone intelligent to write the jokes, it would have gotten another star from me.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the perfect farewell to this quirky group of rogues we never expected to love so much.

Our faith in the Marvel Cinematic Universe waned throughout Phase 4 with films that felt hollow, rushed, and insincere. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 rekindled my hope as James Gunn and the cast’s love and passion for these characters shined in every moment of this beautiful, heartfelt send-off. Gunn reminded us of the magic of comic book movies when the storyteller cares more about the characters than the box office. Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Dave Bautista, and the rest of the cast pour themselves into entertaining and genuine performances. This film is surprisingly emotional and had me wondering how they convinced me to care so deeply about such a zany group of goofballs, but that they did. Vol. 3 is one of the best conclusions to a film trilogy that had me leave the theater full of satisfaction and nostalgia. While Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is wonderful in nearly every way, if I had a complaint, it would be the soundtrack felt forced at times rather than complimenting strong moments in the first film. The villain wasn’t exceptional but was better than the average Marvel villain, and honestly, Vol. 3 wasn’t about the villain or battles as much as it was a farewell to a family of heroes we have all come to love. This movie is well worth your time, and the fantastic effects and cinematography warrant a trip to the cinema to enjoy it to its fullest! MCU doubters need to set aside their skepticism and enjoy saying goodbye to these beloved characters with this outstanding film.

What a disappointment! The first one was great fun, the second almost as good , but this film is just a poor cousin that really struggles from a weak storyline that never really gets going. The megalomaniacal "High Evolutionary" (Chikwudi Iwuji) has set his sights on retrieving "Rocket" after having discovered that our feisty raccoon is a product of sophisticated genetic engineering - and that has enabled him to think and grow as a being; a skill that is hugely valuable to this global-scale cloner. Snag is, "Rocket" has been laid low after a rather violent visit from "Warlock" (Will Poulter) who is working with his mother to apprehend our ursine pal. "Quill" (Chris Pratt) and the others have determined to save him, though, and are soon on the trail of his origins and of a special pass key that could reset him and get him back to fighting fitness. Can the "Guardians" put aside their petty differences and unite before it's all too late? This is far too long and it also tries to involve all of the characters in such a fashion as to leave the whole thing with a rather superficial feel to it. Pratt actually features quite sparingly, and that robbed this of much of it's humour and punchiness. The visual effects are great, but that's nothing remarkable with Marvel - they are vivid and colourful but that's no substitute for a well written and characterful narrative that this film simply lacks. It does quite feature quite an engagingly eclectic soundtrack, but the rest of this is terribly unremarkable fayre that I found my self struggling to stay interested in as it meandered more into a realm of sci-fi sentimentality that ensured a minimum of jeopardy in a denouement that featured a fair degree of ham - especially from Iwuji. If this is to be the final instalment, then I fear it will not be one that I will ever bother to watch again. Pity.