what is going on to all my MCU fans out there and welcome back to my channel my name is Elliot and
this is movie files today we are back discussing a brand new Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special
which will be coming to Disney Plus in just a few days I gotta check it out just a couple days
early and I'm so excited to share my thoughts with you all and a little bit later we're going to be
talking about some spoilers which I'll give you all the warning once we get to that portion but
I'm going to talk a little bit about the reveals in this holiday special and what it can mean for
the future of these characters so keep an eye out for that a little bit later in the video
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and everyone you know that love is Marvel just as much as we do but more importantly I want to know
your thoughts on the Guardians in the comments number one are you a fan of the Guardians if
so which one is better part one part two and if you're excited for part three and of course once
you've seen this holiday special what are some things you took away from it what were some of
your favorite moments and of course when we get to the spoiler portion let's talk about some of those
big reveals in the comments below so with all that being said listen your boys are Guardians fan the
Guardians one is one of my favorite MCU films top five for me 2014 when they introduced us to them
I loved it I enjoy part two more so than others but I say all that to say I love these characters
man and I love catching up with them and knowing James Gunn has said many many times so far this
is the last time we're going to be seeing this iteration the Guardians ever so I'm taking it all
in and then with the special and of course when we get to May with their final chapter so let's
start off from a positives and I want to start off by talking a little bit about things that I
took away with this special it's like 42 minutes holiday special and right off the bat I want to
say it's Charming it's cute it's fun it has a lot of heart to it it has some really good messages
some sentiments about caring for your loved ones and what it can mean to just do something special
for someone you care about it goes a long way I love those messages and also removing my MCU isms
and knowing that number one this is the second special we've got in the last few months I love
wear with my knight you can see my review on that but knowing that this is a much different special
because working by night had to establish Jack and Elsa and the you know Bloodstone and the more
Supernatural MCU this is not that this Guardian special is just giving you a little bit of a
Prelude or give me a little bit of introduction of what we can maybe see in the last time we're going
to see them in May in Guardians 3 so it doesn't have that weight to it and it's just hanging out
with these characters man so I did enjoy catching up with the characters seeing some of my favorite
characters in this family and again the importance of just doing something nice for someone I think
it's a message that we can all take away from after to see in this particular special and
just also acknowledging that it is a established MCU IP and I really enjoy when they tie things in
especially tie things in from this very franchise that we haven't seen since particular films that
we'll talk about in the spoiler portion but I love how again it acknowledges the MCU it acknowledges
things in this universe that I was very happy about seeing especially again last time we
saw them was 411 Thunder what happened after that film you see that in this holiday special and also
there are some reveals that we'll talk about later that I definitely think sets up some future things
and there's a particular Easter egg that I really love that they gave us in the specials and of
course to again CM rocket and nebula I just love these characters I got to get into my criticisms
and I don't want to sound like a grinch y'all but listen at the end of the day this holiday
special wasn't necessarily for me now giving you all examples I I did smile I found myself smiling
at various points watching this holiday and there was a couple jokes that I found to be funny one in
particular without giving too much away in this particular spoiler-free portion when the Mantis
is this particular project follows mantis and Drax going to Earth they've seen a trailer to get Kevin
Bacon to give Peter a holiday gift when they're going to Earth we see the humans reacting to them
and there's a particular reaction from from a particular human who's not has any sniffs in MCU
but it was a human seeing this alien ship landing on Earth it was just so funny because I just think
about the people in the 616 and just the MCU world has to be going through so much PTSD whenever they
see an alien or a ship they just have just fear in their hearts dating all the way back to the
Avengers right so little moments like that put a smile on face but overall as far as the comedy it
fell flat and Kami obviously is so subjective but I found a lot of the comedy to be very flat in my
opinion which also brings me to my biggest biggest issue with this holiday special show the fact that
we focus on two characters that I personally do not like not just in the guardians but just in the
MCU in general that is mantis and that is Drax the Destroyer now the reasons I'm not a fan of them
is number one I find Drax to be so uninteresting first Guardians him being on his Vengeance to find
nathaniels for killing his wife and his daughter interesting character ever since then he became
the butt of the jokes he's just a idiot at this point in MCU and they continue that narrative in
this special and I'm not a fan of that mantis very dull very interesting I do not find and
there's nothing against the actors I love Dave Batista I love Palm I love these actors I just
don't like them in this role because I don't like their characters and I just think that they're
they're too similar right for me when you're going on an adventure like this going to Earth finding
a Christmas present for your best friend or a family member I think it would be better to have
had different characters interacting with each other like polar Ops like obviously they all love
each other because they're a family at this point since seeing them in 2014 but to me it would have
been a better Dynamic to see mantis and rocket going to Earth or seeing nebula and Drax going to
Earth or Hell from being honest with you I'd much rather have just seen Rocket Raccoon and nebula
going to Earth and getting their own special but neither here are there I think they're just too
similar of the characters I'm referring to drag semantics they're just too goofy there's not a lot
of dynamic going on because they're just they're two of the same characters and they're just you
know idiots and not calling the actors but I just found these characters just be too goofy that's
really one of my biggest issues and this is a holiday special this isn't a movie this isn't
a TV series but the story at hand going to Earth to find Kevin Bacon and how all that stuff kind
of comes together knowing that this was a project that that Kevin feige was pitched to by James Gunn
years ago but then it came into fruition when they were making Guardians three and then they end up
like he wrote this in a couple hours no offense to James Gunn who I'm a big fan of but you can
tell that this was written in just a couple hours because it just doesn't have that weight to it it
just kind of feels like it was half ass and it kind of feel like it was just a throwaway idea
in my opinion again I don't mean to criticize a man because I love his work but this was just I
was just uninterested in the story that they told here also a very big disappointing thing about me
with this project the music the soundtrack was so mediocre and the reason I say this because y'all
know James Gunn has some of the best needle drops in the entire MCU with guardians 1 Guardians 2 of
course if you've seen his work in the DC Universe he has great scores and he has a particularly
great soundtracks and I found the soundtrack it's very Christmassy obviously but it just wasn't the
hits that I was hoping to get and also a couple musical pieces in this film that like musical
number I found out to be very mediocre last thing I want to mention is listen I don't mean
to be harsh and it be the Grinch and listen at the end of the day I know that it will find its
audience people that love of the Guardians love matches love Drax love Christmas stuff we'll find
something to take away and enjoy this and for me ultimately the experience was just a little
lackluster because again I don't care for these characters and I just found it to be not that
funny you're a sucker for cheesy corny holiday specials like the Star Wars holiday special or
all those hallmarky movies you're gonna probably have a good time but for me it just wasn't my cup
of tea and I much more prefer the special day we got from werewolf at night versus this but I say I
want more of these specials even though I wasn't a fan of this special I'm gonna give this Guardians
holiday special presentation a 2.5 out of 5 and one more thing before we get into the spoiler
portion even though I wasn't necessarily a fan of this special because it was focusing on characters
I don't really care for this doesn't take anything away from my excitement for Guardians 3. I'm very
much still excited for it I'm very much a fan of this idea of creating these specials and seeing
what they can do with that Medium so even though I wasn't a fan of this I'm excited for the future
but now pivoting over to the spoilers of this Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special again
spoiler warning I'm making them pre-recording this video before it comes out but once you've seen it
go watch it come back to this video less Hawks was but if you've seen it you're in the right
place so this is my top five takeaways top five spoilers I want to talk about with this special
number one we open with the yondu coming back right it's a flashback and it's cartoon animated
thing I was at first a little bit nervous how they presented yondu because last time you saw him in
Guardians 2 he sacrificed his life and I'm like why are they bringing it back the bad days the
negative days on this character but again I like the payoff for when he ends up having a Christmas
spirit and the moment that he has with Peter was something I really enjoyed but also I want to
go back into that little animation thing I never really I always knew that Cracklin was a part of
the ravengers and he's been a part of Peter's life since he was picked up on Earth but I really like
that Dynamic that him and Peter have been friends for such a long time which makes me unfortunately
say this next portion I think Cracklin is probably gonna die in the next Guardians film just because
number one him being his brother is James Gunn he's moving over to DC I think we're going to
see him end up dying in that next film but again I really do appreciate that relation to those two
characters have and I do think that Kraken will probably end up dying the next Guardians film that
we see him but over to my number two takeaway from this I love the tie-ins to the first Guardians and
just the greater MCU and I'm referring to them now being operational managers or taken care of
nowhere I love that tie-in and that they're trying to clean it up right especially since the last
time he saw nowhere was in Infinity war and we know what Thanos did to that so I love that they
are bringing those elements back and that they are now operating nowhere and I'm pretty sure
that that's going to be an element in Guardians 3 that we're going to see them again taking care of
nowhere and maybe seeing in Adam Warlock or CN High evolutionary wrecking shop yet again for
them so I love again those tie-ins there but also speaking of tie-ins we've seen Cosmos the
space dog in Guardians one and two but now we can officially meet the dog Cosmos and who was voiced
beautifully by Maria bakalova who you all might have known from the Borat films or most recently
this year bodies bodies bodies and she will be Cosmos will be in Guardians 3 so I like Cosmos I'm
not going to sit here and stunt now like I know everything about the character but from the little
bit of research that I did prior to shooting this video I see that it's very powerful uh there was
one thing that I saw that said it was just as powerful not as powerful but kind of can play
in the same ballpark with Adam Warlock so very powerful dog I'm very excited to see how the dog
Cosmos plays into Guardians 3 and hopefully we see more of that character after that film but getting
into my third Point here I thought it was so funny and I thought it was also very interesting
to seeing when Drax and mantis land on Earth and they go to Hollywood they see a fake Steve Rogers
and their reaction is saying hey Steve mantis in particularly want to give him a hug and he
ran away because he's like who are these people I thought that was so interesting because that just
gives me the confirmation that the Guardians just like interacted with all the different Avengers
when they were at Tony's funeral so I would love a cut scene or just like a aspect of seeing the
Guardians having a conversation with Steve Rogers because we saw rocket having his interactions with
the Avengers we saw Groot talking to Steve in the infinity War battle but I would love to have seen
what a conversation consists of with Drax mantis and Steve Rogers so I thought that was a nice
little call back and also correct me from wrong from a Marvel heads out there when they go to
that Hollywood portion of La that was the same location as Spider or say Iron Man 3 when happy
almost lost his life I'm pretty sure that was the same location so again the tie-ins were pretty
cool in this special which Speaking of tie-ins I'm gonna need your help on this fourth part
help me out in the comments here there we get a big moment which it's revealed that mantis is the
sister of Peter now the thing that I need help with is going back to Guardians 2 and I haven't
seen that film in a couple years but refreshing my memory the whole thing was ego plan that was
that he needed the power of two celestials to expand himself to different planets and I
know that they revealed that he impregnated women across the Galaxy he hired young dude to collect
the kids and if they weren't powerful enough he killed them so if mantis was his daughter and
obviously he wasn't able to accomplish his goal with math is why didn't he kill mantis now again
help me out in the comments I'm pretty sure they said in Guardians 2 that he like she comfort him
because obviously he can she can put him to sleep and give change his emotions so I don't know if
that's why he kept her and why he didn't kill her but very interesting again Peter and mantis
are siblings which brings me to this very next point I mentioned how I think cracklin's gonna
probably die I wouldn't be surprised if mantis dies in Guardians 3 because so far the through
line and the unfortunate through lines the first two Guardians is if you are a family member of
Peter you're going to probably die his mother dies and guard his one his dad dies in Guardians 2 and
I think now his sister will probably end up dying in Guardians 3. I hope that's not the case even
though I'm not the biggest fan of mantis but I can see her maybe sacrificing herself for her
brother because again Peter losing his family is a theme that we've gotten so far at least in
the first two Guardians so let me know what you all think about that reveal and what it
could mean for Guardians 3 which brings me to my fifth and final point the last thing I want to
mention here it was my favorite element of this entire special this moment we're giving gifts to
everyone and nebula is giving a gift to Rocket and it is the gift that he wanted back in Infinity war
and that was Bucky's wakandan metal arm how much for the gun not for sale okay how much for the um
oh I'll get that off and that moment there was so great on screen levels number one again it's
a call back to Infinity War uh and it's also just knowing that rocket likes to collect things right
eyes arms legs limbs all that stuff so I love that there but the true question I have for
you all is how the hell did she get Bucky's arm now two things could be happening here
number one this is just a funny throwaway line it's not canon it's just something that they
want to throw in there just to have fun with the characters which I hope that's the case because
that brings me to my second point if she got the arm does that mean she stole Bucky's arm
because last time we saw Bucky he had his arm and Falcon won a soldier also the material the
promotional material for the Thunderbolts he has that what kind of arm which then makes
me think maybe he has multiple what kind of arms and maybe when they were at the funeral
she stole one of his arms I have no idea so again is it Canon is did she still Bucky's arm
does he have multiple arms and then also will this be a story that we see like he's missing
an arm in the Thunderbolts and he has to go to wakanda not only to do Val's Mission it's still
vibranium but to also get an arm again or do you all think it's just a silly joke that has no ties
to the great MCU let me know your thoughts on that in the comments below again I just wanted
to talk about it with you all because I love talking Marvel talking spoilers and what you
all thought about this Guardian the reveals and what it can mean for Guardians 3. if you stuck
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