Review: In 'Guardians 3,' ultra-weird superhero fun doesn't have to be Rocket science
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Let's run the numbers: "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" is the third movie in a trilogy (duh), the second Marvel movie to be released this year (yawn), the 32nd movie in the overall Marvel Cinematic Universe (sigh) and, as hyper-aware fans doubtless already know, the first of those 32 MCU movies to feature an uncensored F-bomb (about time). I'm not sure the latter was worth the wait, though by this point in the series — after some 64-plus hours' worth of bombastic explosions, murky action, crisscrossing timelines, intergalactic skirmishes, butt-hurt baddies, tiresome daddy issues, genocidal cataclysms, box office conquests, military propaganda and strenuously breezy wisecracks — a single PG-13-compliant four-letter expletive is certainly well earned.
And hilariously well deployed, I must say. I won't spoil the context — I couldn't anyway, since the scene is already online —
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