Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Watched the movie this afternoon. I was pretty happy with it.

I didn’t notice any woke stuff inserted; if anything, there may have been some intentional not-woke stuff in it; for example, the scene were Groot pulls out a redneck pick-up truck full of weapons and joins Quill in blasting the bad guys.

Some of the character arcs were very good. Nebula was more central in this movie than in the earlier ones, and she carried her part of the story very well. The flashbacks of Rocket’s past were very moving. I even liked that it not all the story elements were resolved in predictable ways.

Any complaints? For a movie that seems to be intended to appeal to children, while still not being a kids’ movie, the language was at times too strong, one big part of the movie is an act of genocide or even xenocide, though the action scenes may distract from what is really happening, and there are some creatures who have been subjected to experiments and have, for example, spider-like legs and no mouth, or thin metal arms.

So, I may recommend some caution in taking kids to see it, but outside of that, I can’t think of any big caveats.