![]() ![]() To rescue Rocket, the villain is pursued by the Guardians: Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Drax (Dave Bautista), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Groot (Vin Diesel, still somehow getting paid to barely voice this character). Gamora (Zoe Saldana, left) is back, but she has no memory of her time with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt, right) or the Guardians. Rocket was one of his early experiments, and he wants his scientific data back. The High Evolutionary’s machinations, despite an intense, shout-to-the-sky performance of the old school from Iwuji, are all extremely melodramatic and Iowa-flat. For years, the villain has been trying to engineer the perfect society, creating and killing his trials along the way.Ĭonfusingly, utopia for him means human-size talking turtles and octopi living in suburban homes on a carbon-copy of Earth. The key to Rocket’s survival lies at Orgocorp, a corporate front for a eugenics-obsessed maniac called the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji). Gunn, whose therapist has his work cut out for him, has made a grotesque and often disturbing movie that’s much too bizarre for its own good. Yet, the film’s fuzzy heart is overwhelmed by its out-of-control weirdness. ![]() So, Gunn’s dark film is filled with flashbacks to caged critters (an otter, rabbit and walrus) who speak English in squeaky, Saturday-morning-cartoon voices, like a remedial “Secret of NIMH.” ![]() Animals - even ones who sound like chain-smokers - reliably deliver tears. (This will be a difficult watch for some viewers.) ![]() Writer-director James Gunn’s choice to focus on Rocket is an easily emotional one. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, strong language, suggestive drug references and thematic elements.) In theaters May 5. ![]()
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