Ok so I am Groot sees the titular character branch out into his own
animated series set in the MCU. It's filled with some cool cameos
and little easter eggs that we're gonna be breaking down throughout this video.
If you don't want any spoilers then I suggest you leaf the video and also
hit the thumbs up button if you enjoy some bad puns spoken in a limey british accent.
With that out the way, huge thank you for clicking this now let's get into I am Groot.
Now each episode begins with Groot fastforwarding his way through the
classic Marvel Studios fanfare. I respect that Disney heard our complaints about their
shows having 10 minutes of credit scenes and they cut them down to reveal the true length
of each entry...I'm just kidding but the first episode is called Hot Spring Bird.
This shares the name with the 2017 I am groot comic about the character being stuck on a
planet called Terminal. I'm guessing this is the tropical one that we join the character
on but the source material did have him away from the guardians but here we can catch the
benatar perched up on a hill. The artstyle of the comic fully pulls across to the new series
and the logo and text at the end looks similar to how it's presented in the source material.
Now it was said that this series takes place between the ending of Guardians Of The Galaxy
Volume 2's final scene and it's post credits one. This was confirmed by the creative team
though the second entry clearly takes place right after the first movie.
Anyway the first entry follows the little guy as he finds a hot spring inside a puddle,
the mud of which gets mixed with a flying insect and also some fruit.
It's very much like a little spa for him and he even dons some cucumbers on the
eyes like your uncle Kevin Spoilers when he gets a break from the kids for a day.
This lets him grow his leaves rapidly and he ends up styling it in a sort of getting
dressed motage that was a staple of 80s movies and also Wonder Woman.
Guy transforms from a chia pet into a Centaur, Poodle, Dolphin and an 18th Century lady.
I am a lady.
Guessing most of the people watching this are under 10 so you probably dont get that reference,
also I think little Britain is probably cancelled now.
Either way Groot takes the fur from a multi-coloured animal and he wears
it as a scarf, cementing this as being the best spa day ever.
Next we cut to Bonsai Tree which as metioned earlier,
seems to pick up right after the end of Guaridans Of The Galaxy.
That had him dancing to want you back by the Jackson 5 and
here we watch as he grows from a twig into his baby persona.
Now the ship is filled with references to the other films
and beside him we can catch a little fruit.
This is the same as the one that Nebula was constantly trying to get to in the
second film and upon biting it she discovered it wasn't ripe.
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Now he's watered and grown by two torture probe looking things but it's all good as
he gets to eat some cheese puffs in his little pot. Guardians 2 had him eating
junk food at certain points so it's nice that he developed his diet of garbage early on.
After he cracks the pot he's shifted over to the other side of the room and behind him we
can catch the casette deck that Peter Popped the awesome mix volume 2 into. The tape looks
exactly the same to how it did in that movie but wait until you hear about limewire baby.
Groot is replaced by the Bonsai
and the word actually translates literally to mean tree in a pot.
As he swings we hear the song Blue Danube playing and this was featured in 2001 a Space
Odyssey during the low gravity scenes of that movie. They also have a riff
that sounds similar to the main title theme from that movie.
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This peice by Richard Strauss was titled Sun Rise and it helped to cement the message of humanities
evolution from crawling out the dirt which Groot literally does. He takes his first few steps, says
I am groot and also makes peace with his fallen tree brother whilst he eats some cheese puffs.
Next we cut to short number 3 which is titled Dancing.
Groot wakes up on the Ravager Ship which I believe is called the Eclector.
This belonged to the gang and it was stolen by Rocket, Yondu and Groot during the second movie.
He ends up coming across a box of smart watches and using one of these as a
headlight he finds a mysterious vial that's been broken open.
As he walks through the dark corridor there's a lot of vibes of both Alien
and Aliens the latter of which was directed by James Cameron. I feel like Cameron gets
another nod in this entry when Groot finally comes across the creature that escaped. Not
only does it move and shape shift like the T-1000 but it's also very similar
to the water creatures in the abyss and how they move and change shapes.
Love that they pay homage to some of the first major special cgi effects
and this series shows how far animation has come.
Groot reads a book on the toilet and on this we can see Thanos as well as some little white
fluffy aliens. These are known as Vyloos and they too appeared in Guardians 2. They
also show up at the beginning of the fifth short when it attacks the treehouse that Groot builds.
He searches for the creature in a russian doll and he also jumps
on a purple banana which too appeared on the cover of the
book. James Gunn is also credited as lending his voice to the wrist watch.
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Now if there's one thing that Groot learned from Peter at the end of Guardians is that
sometimes you gotta have a dance off bro. Just as he busted the moves out on Ronan,
here Groot goes against the creature in a scene thats very reminicent of shadow Mario.
The pair go face to face to Ran Kan Kan by Tito Puente and Groot blasts him out the airlock.
This again is probably referencing Aliens namely how Ripley took the
Queen out in that film which is a nice tying together of the whole thing.
Cut to episode 4 and we watch Groot wake up on the Ravager ship once
more with the song You Can Get It If You Really Want playing.
We see he has a Jansports backpack and this has
a nasa badge on it as well as the ghosts from pacman.
The backpack itself actually belonged to Peter and this is what he was wearing at
the start guardians of the galaxy when he was picked up by Yondu.
This is filled with a lot of references to Earth and the 80s including an Alf Comic.
Standing for Alien Life Form this sitcom followed
a alien that crash landed on earth and lived with a family.
It was satirised in the recent movie Nope and the
monkey in that was called Gordy with Alfs true name being Gordon.
You probably haven't seen that as like I said,
you're 10...unless youre actually 30 in which case, what you watching I am groot for.
What do you mean I'm 30 as well.
Now we follow Groot in a scene that's sort of similar to the one in the second film
where he steals all kinds of items from the Ravagar crew. He cuts off some of Rockets fur
which he later uses on a family picture that he draws and he also steals some soap from Drax.
At least I think it's Drax..I couldn't see anyone there because whoever it was
was moving so slowly that it's almost like they were invisible.
He also grabs some annulax batteries which appeared at the start of Guardians 2.
Along with these Arbulary Batteries we also see the cheesepuff packet from the bonsai tree
epsiode and next to it is the cracked plant pot that also showed up in that.
Using the alf cover he creates a canvas and he cooks this with a rocket boot. This belonged to
Star-lord and it's something that he used to fly around with during the end of the
second film. In a further tie back to that we see that Groot has learned how to press
the big red button which he had trouble with in the bomb scene from that movie.
He blows a hole in the ship and we get an appearance by Rocket. He wears some little
eye glasses that I dont think we've seen him put on before and almost gets sucked out. The
picture has the family on there including Gamora who looks a bit like a she hulk.
There's also Peter who has his walkman and its a nice little family photo.
Anyway for the final episode we're going over to Jared for his amazing, amazing Easter Eggs.
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So this episodes...it's a bit...it's a bit like Gullivers Travels...isn't it?
Was that...was that it for f**
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Anyway we follow Groot as he makes a tree house for himself but this
is brought down by a Vyloss which we see in the opening shot sitting on a tree branch.
This is taken out by a bird which leads to Groot discovering some tiny lie forms under a rock.
The musical stings here once more mimic 2001 a Space Odyssey.
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There are also flashes of in the Hall Of The Mountain King as well
or as I call it the Alton Towers theme tune.
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He farts out a leaf and then we get some Pikmin
vibes as we watch the little people feasting on it. They all look so happy including this
old woman who cries but Groot steps on them as he races back with some branches.
However they're all good baby and that ends the episode.
So yeah, some nice little easter eggs in there. Doubt I'd watch this again
but it's one for the kids and I know it's something I can just put on tv
and let my two little lads watch on loop whilst I make my 3rd video of the day.
It's what a true father would do and I hope you enjoyed the video. I think the animation
was great and though the series was pretty much all filler I get that I'm not really the target
audience and there's probably people out there who'll have fun with this a lot more than I did.
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With that out the way thank you for sitting through the video,
I’ve been Paul and I’ll see you next time. Take care, Peace