***This Episode is Spoiler Filled***
We break down Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Ant-Man with full plot details & debate.

Guardians of the Galaxy:
Cast and Crew - 1:58
Box Office/Reception - 5:09
Plot Overview - 11:53
Where it Fits in the MCU - 13:45
Best Scenes - 22:06
Worst Scenes - 27:41
Oscar Lens - 29:59

Avengers: Age of Ultron:
Cast and Crew - 34:22
Box Office/Reception - 35:19
Plot Overview - 39:20
Where it Fits in the MCU - 42:25
Best Scenes - 50:56
Breaking Down the Finale - 57:01
Worst Scenes - 58:47
Oscar Lens - 1:03:42

The Best 3 MCU Movie Stretch? - 1:05:10
See, Buy, Skip - 1:05:33

Ant Man:
Cast and Crew - 1:06:56
Box Office/Reception - 1:08:27
Plot Overview - 1:11:50
Where it Fits in the MCU - 1:13:31
Best Scenes - 1:18:30
Worst Scenes - 1:22:33
Oscar Lens - 1:25:00

Final Thoughts/Social Medias - 1:26:34


So we felt like a lot of Sponge-Bob gif’s where we’re about to overflow with happiness during this recording.  Both of us reserve a special place in our hearts for the Guardians of the Galaxy, we’re huge fans of Joss Whedon, and from Evangeline Lilly to Edgar Wright’s screenplay, there’s a lot of fun to be had with Ant-Man.  As jam packed with content & criticism as we’ve ever been here on MMO, this is MCU Review No 4 for Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Ant-Man.

Guardians of the Galaxy feels like another pay-off for Disney & Marvel’s strategy to make expertly crafted genre films out of their properties.  We love many moments big & small, we gush, we rave, & we turn into fanboys for much of this first review because if nothing else, these characters of Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot are a great hang.  

Avengers: Age of Ultron is also quite the movie, epic in his scale and humongous in its ambition, if not it’s casting.  We theorize about the blockbuster bias of the Academy with the strange snubbing of the film in all of the technical categories, there’s a seriously large plot to break down and fit into the MCU, and then we talk some story structure by review’s end.  It’s a substantive discussion that of course rants and raves and digresses as only we can.  

Be on the lookout for our See, Buy, Skip around this point in the pod.  As Mike1 hands AlsoMike a nearly impossible choice to decide between 3 of his MCU favorites.

Then, Ant-Man is a slow starter, but we come to praise it all the same.  The story production backstory might be more interesting than the first act, and we chronicle some of the Edgar Wright film that could have been.  Then we have rage for some of the movie’s failings before we’re won over by the charms of Disney, Marvel, Rudd, Lilly, Pena, and jokes about size.  There is catharsis in our review and break down of this plot.  How many movie critics can give you somma that??!!  

As always, we have too much fun, and there’s more on the way.  We have an ambitious recording & release schedule coming up over the next few weeks as we’ll cover the MCU and Avengers: Infinity War from Iron Man to Black Panther, from Phase 1 to 3, and from blockbuster popcorn to serious Oscar talk.  

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