The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

I am not an fan of holiday movies, to be completely honest with you. I find them overly saccharine, often with ridiculously bad dialogue, and find them just plain cringy to watch. This was not the case with The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. My boyfriend and I loved it. Definitely adding it to our very small list of acceptable holiday movies.

I liked watching Drax and Mantis interact on their own. They’re really an interesting MCU pair. Both odd in their own ways. I’m also glad they’re clearly a platonic match-up. Not enough of those in the world, I think. But anyway, watching them handle the Hollywood culture and then the Christmas culture while being mostly oblivious to both was fun.

My boyfriend’s a big fan of the Nowhere set once it was all lit up with Christmas lights. I’m a big fan of Mantis’ little bow-apron thingie. If I thought I could pull that off, I would try. It’s so cute! Her whole Christmas outfit was just perfect.

The story itself was amusing. I really like the idea of Drax and Mantis hating actors but also being completely oblivious to the fact that Kevin Bacon is an actor. That all Peter’s heroes were actors, really. It amused me. It was also really sweet of Mantis to want to make Peter’s Christmas a happy one. Little odd that no one really thought about Mantis also being Ego’s kid, but I guess I didn’t really either… just seemed really obvious when she said it. Though, now I’m thinking about it, she definitely could have just been someone Ego picked up somewhere, so yeah… anyway…

If you haven’t seen The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, I definitely recommend that you do. It’s sweet and fun but not overly cringy. Definitely an awesome addition to any holiday movie watching you might be doing.