“Who the hell are you guys?”
That’s Thor Odinson there, struggling to comprehend how he’s wound up in the company of the Guardians – namely Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, teenage Groot, Rocket and their newfound ally, Mantis – soon after the calamitous finale of Ragnarok.
It’s a crowd-pleasing moment that was originally teased last summer at D23, before budding Marvel fans uncovered a bootleg version of the scene just last week. But now that Avengers: Infinity War is exactly four weeks out from release, the Powers That Be have dropped a HD version of said clip that shows how the Guardians react to their new crew member. And, well, Dave Bautista’s Drax is certainly impressed.
Suffice it to say, the Guardians haven’t lost their mojo since encountering the planet-sized Ego in James Gunn’s spacefaring sequel – if anything, Star-Lord and Co. have only grown into a bona fide team since their escapades in outer space. And not a moment too soon.
For in Avengers: Infinity War, the Guardians of the Galaxy will come up against Thanos, a Mad Titan with only one thought in his mind: to wipe out half the universe by collecting all six Infinity Stones. And though they may take a backseat to the Avengers on April 27th, Star-Lord actor Chris Pratt recently assured fans that our favorite team of A-holes will still get their moment to shine.
After 10 years and 18 movies, the Marvel Studios logo has arguably become a hallmark of quality the likes of which we haven’t seen since the heyday of Amblin. And it’s that 10-year legacy that has allowed Avengers: Infinity War to become one of the biggest movies of 2018. And perhaps even one of the biggest movies of all time, though we’ll have to wait until the review embargo lifts on April 24th before we have a better reading on it.
