Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (2023)

  I wasn't rushing to see this in theaters like I had with previous entries.  I enjoyed Quantumania but I haven't had a great theater experience since before the pandemic.  I'm one of those people who really enjoyed the trend of movies coming to streaming services.  So when this dropped on Disney+, I watched it.  Content warning:  animal experimentation, dead animals

Rocket (Bradley Cooper) is injured in an attack by Adam Warlock (Will Poulter) and the medical resources on hand aren't working because he is technically proprietary genetic material owned by the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji).  So the Guardians suit up and try to track down the passkey to unlock Rocket's system while dealing with their internal grievances.  

It is funny, it is sweet, it is everything you've come to expect from a James Gunn Guardians movie but it definitely feels like the end of the road.  Gunn is over at DC now, hoping to dredge them out of the Snyderverse Swamp of Sadness they've been mired in for the last decade.  Good luck and godspeed, sir.  

You already know by now if you're going to watch this (whether it's because you are a Marvel ride-or-die, a Guardians fan, or a completionist) or not (superhero fatigue, hate Chris Pratt, hate James Gunn, hate Marvel).  People online bitched about the treatment of Adam Warlock but I thought it was funny.  Poulter is great and people are whiners.  There is a mid-credits and a post-credits scene, but another leg up for streaming is a "Skip Credits" button to jump to the end.  Ain't technology grand?