Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk… about the GotG: holiday special? Yeah, no.
Here is the thing: this piece is a variant of the ‘Green
Mary-Sue: Legal Eagle’ that we have been subjected earlier in 2022 – a ‘comedy’
piece that actually degrades MCU…but because it is a 45 minute long special, it
works, as there is nothing to actually degrade. Instead, we mostly get Drax and Mantis traipsing around
the world of MCU, channelling their old married couple vibe, while Kevin Bacon…
is just Kevin Bacon, just as Megan Thee Stallion was Megan Thee Stallion in the
J.W. show. These celebrities do not add anything to MCU; they just add gravity
to the void of content in ‘She-Hulk’ and now – the GotG special. What is there
to discuss? Nothing!
However, what else is there left? ‘Strange World’, a
Disney original special movie. Whereas MCU took 4 phases to arrive in that particular
place, ‘Strange World’ was there, and stayed there throughout its’ run, (i.e. 102
minutes long). Supposedly about living in homeostasis with nature, (i.e. the ‘Frozen
2’ film), ‘Strange World’-2022 does a half-assed job of it; rather, for most of
the movie’s duration the show’s characters are running around their ‘strange
world’, (which is rather reminiscent of a human body, cough), doing… nothing of
substance. Yes, I know that this is a journey of discovery, with the discovery
being the truth about the Pando plant and the rest of the world, but due to the
speed of the movie, both the discovery itself and the process of discovering
it, are downgraded and vanish in all of the rush and the special effects. Yuppie,
only not, as we are the ones paying for this piece and get to watch the shenanigans
of the Clade family for over an hour. ‘Strange World’ indeed! Anything else?
Sadly, no. The American Thanksgiving has come and
gone, the Black Friday is upon us, and the winter of 2022-3 is upon in a matter
of days. This is very disheartening… and I did say that the real life sucks,
didn’t I? So I did, and rather than to drag it out, I am ending this rant for
now. See you all soon instead!
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