I loved it. It made me cry. And I’ll never forget Lylla, Teefs and Floor. That last sentence will sound like a foreign language to almost everyone reading this. But that’s OK, because the last instalment of James Gunn’s ribald and outrageously tender MCU series is all about the difficulty of being understood. To put it another way: Gunn, by introducing us to three tragic new characters, has found the perfect way to say goodbye.
How much do you know about The Guardians? A friend told me he was struggling to stay interested in the MCU; that he “blinked and lost the plot after Avengers: Endgame”. Luckily, very little has happened to this gaggle of misfits – led by one-time earth-dweller Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) – since Endgame. Also, Gunn’s script finds jokey ways to fill you in on anything you might have missed (the alt-timeline backstory of Zoe Saldana’s green-faced warrior, Gamora? It’s explained in under two minutes).
