Guardians of the Galaxy Volume Three

Strip away the heavy-handed licensed songs playing over characters staring into the middle distance, an exploration of a character’s pathos that is as thorough as it is needless given how effective piecemeal snippets of their pain has proven expressly due to their brevity, and the Marvel Third Act where everything explodes because that’s what happens in Marvel Third Acts, is a story of people coming to terms with how their damaged backgrounds come to define them and how they need to overcome that pain, which “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” did a million times better. It’s competent, it ain’t bad, whatever.

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