Marvel fans to say that the MCU has been struggling with it's Phase Four would be a huge understatement. However there is one little nugget of gold to come from this Phase and that's the very special that i'm about to review for you all right here today and so then Marvel fans and none Marvel fans alike join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the special tat introduces a legendary actors to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the special in question being called simply just "The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special" enjoy.
The plot of this special is mantis and Drax embark on a quest to get Peter the best present that they could possibly even think of. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty just as crazy and just as bonkers and bizarre as you'd want from a Guardians Of The Galaxy christmas and holiday special in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this very special is Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord and Sean Gunn as Kraglin Obfonteri. Also starring in this special is Pom Klementieff as Mantis , Dave Bautista as Drax The Destroyer , Karen Gillan as Nebula , Bradley Cooper as The Voice Of Rocket Raccoon , Borat Subsequent Moviefilm breakout star Maria Bakalova as The Voice Of Cosmo , Vin Diesel as The Voice Of Groot and Kevin Bacon as Himself.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty really good. With both Pom Klementieff and Dave Bautista turning in some really very funny performances as their very own respective characters in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Doing thee CGI for this special is Crafty Apes , Framestore , Gradient FX , Industrial Light & Magic , Legacy Effects , Perception , Rodeo FX and Sony Pictures Imageworks. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad altho truth be told there really wasn't that much CGI in this special but what little CGI we did get looked really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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This special takes place sometime after the events of Avengers: Endgame with Peter Quill still not being able to find the version of Gamora that we saw in Avengers: Endgame. I have to admit that having Peter Quill not being able to find this new version of Gamora being the reason as to why Drax and Mantis want to get him the perfect Christmas present was a sweet angle to go with as it not only adds to Peter's journey of learning to cope with his grief of first loosing Gamora and then finding out that there's a version Gamora out there but from an earlier point in her timeline and it also goes to show just how much of a family the Guardians Of The Galaxy team actually really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Speaking of family we also find out that Peter Quill has a sister something which was actually spoiled by Disney themselves in a now since removed segment from one of the latest episodes of Marvel Legends. With that sister being none other then Mantis which i'm in two minds about since on the one hand it is an interesting way to take booth of these characters and yet at the same time Marvel have said that don't consider delated scenes to be canon and yet here they are making a delated scene canon which is just really stupid in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
The trailer for this special made it sound like that the whole special was going to be Mantis and Drax just trying to convince Kevin Bacon to come with them. Well that is sadly not the case which is a shame because that's the most entertaing part of the special since there's so much comedy that could be milked from these two weird people wondering around what I assume is Los Angeles and yet this special just doesn't take full advantage of that set up or of that setting either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty one minuets and fifty six seconds. Which for a special like this one which is so strange and so weird and bizarre and yet at the same so heartwarming is just the absolutely perfect amount of time for this special to last and it really does help that this special had this running time as it then meant that we could see more of Yondu this time in animated for and voiced by Michael Rooker as he also goes through Christmas with a much more younger Peter Quill and that is something that might have been cut out of this special if this special had a much more short running time in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then since there is some action in this very special that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty really good. Since we got to see what Mantis can do when she's in a fight which I don't think is something that we've seen up until now but I might be wrong tho but either way it was really cool seeing her fight in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall for me this special was alot better then Werewolf By Night was simply because of the fact that this special was fun and told a genuinely good story which is something that Werewolf By Night just didn't do in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that means that this very special erns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this very / particular / exact film being obviously the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page since alot of the images that are from this film and that are currently still indeed up on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.