Guardians of the Galaxy
Stream on Disney+
Runtime: 2 Hours 3 Minutes
Rated PG-13
An unknown treasure hunter (and space pirate) named Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, steals an orb that some very powerful groups are after. After getting caught and thrown into prison with an assassin, two bounty hunters (who happen to be a raccoon and a tree man), and a crazy alien barbarian they must put aside their differences and join together to stop those who would use the Infinity Stone inside the orb to destroy the Nova Core and their planet.
Themes:
Loss, treasure hunting, Star Lord (have you heard of him?), assassins, betrayal, aliens, thievery, engineering, piracy, the Infinity Stones, I am Groot, protecting plants, judgement, heroism, sacrifice, criminals, bounty hunting, and family.
Language:
A*s - 3 B*stard - 1 B*tch - 1 D*mn - 3 D*ck - 3 Hell - 8 Pr*ck - 1 Sh*t - 2 Religious Exclamations - 4
One character says what the F…but the word is bleeped out.
Class A, a-hole, piss, and crap are said. There is lots of name calling such as idiot, princess, jerks, whore, and stupid.
Stuff to be aware of:
Grossness - Groot makes his branch like fingers go up someone’s nose. A female alien touches one of the Infinity Stones and parts of her skin come off and she explodes. Two people float in space and start to freeze, but are rescued. Groot stabs Drax in the chest and Drax coughs up nasty, neon liquid. Nebula gets blown up and her broken body reforms itself with bone cracking sounds.
Scary - There are several aliens species that could be scary in the movie.
Sexual - A girls with messed up hair is on Peter’s ship and it is implied that Peter slept with her. There is an alien that is seen coming out of a dark liquid. You can see the side of his butt. He later wakes away from the camera and his butt is slightly visible due to darkness.
Peter is seen in just his underwear he gets cleaned up in the prison. An inmate makes a sexual remark about Peter being new meat and Rocket says that Peter is “their booty.” Peter shows scars he has received from women who he skipped out on women he slept with. Later Drax refers to Peter as the, “man who has lain with a…” There is a sexual joke about a black light.
Pelvic sorcery is mentioned. Gamora is seen zipping up her costume.
Violence - In the beginning there is a chase scene where several people get shot and a weapon vaporizes two people. A man who is locked up is killed by being hit in the head with a giant hammer. His death is not seen, but heard. Then his blood drips down into a device and fills it up.
Several weapons shock people and taze them. An alien get his neck broken and his face is seen turned around backwards. There is a huge fight scene when the Guardians escape prison and multiple people get knocked out and shot. Gamora breaks a man’s arm.
Yondu has an arrow that he controls with whistling, and it kills multiple people. Gamora talks about how Thanos killed her parents in front of her. In the final battle, multiple bad guys are shot and killed. Drax stabs multiple people and some of them have odd colored alien blood that comes out. Drax also pulls a mechanic part out of a mans head. Groot sends his arm through multiple bad guy’s chests and throws them around. Gamora gets electrocuted, and her skeleton can be seen through her skin.
In the end, the Guardians grab the Power Stone and they all looks like they are going to explode and their skin is going to come off.
Other - Peter’s mother dies of cancer in the beginning. She is seen in a hospital bed with tubes hooked up to her.
There is a scene in which characters bet on a little monster eating smaller monsters. The characters drink while they gamble. There is a joke and conversation about people having sticks up their butts. Rocket and Drax are drunk in one scene.
Overall:
Seeing It With Your Family
We have been watching the MCU movies by release order and this was the first one I was a bit iffy about my kids watching. We did watch it, but being a James Gunn movie, it has plenty of sexual humor and cursing. I do believe this is the tamest of the three Guardians movies though.
What I Thought
As a comic book reader, and specifically Marvel, I was never very fond of the Guardians of the Galaxy, however this movie turned what is kind of a boring comic series into a very fun movie with likable characters. I think these characters get a dose of the actor’s personalities behind them transforming some of them into cooler characters in the movie than in the comics. A great movie, but not always a family friendly movie.