No actual animals were harmed in the making of the movie – all the critters are created through digital effects. Spoilers! What those 'Guardians of the Galaxy 3' end-credit scenes mean for Marvel future The abused animals are CGI, but it's still hard to watch

They teach Rocket at a young age how to talk and Lylla nurses Rocket after his surgeries, including having his brain exposed. Rocket gets emotional help weathering these sadistic experiments through the friends he meets who’ve also been cybernetically engineered: His best pal Lylla is an otter with mechanical arms Teefs is a walrus with wheels and Floor is a rabbit with a metal trap for a mouth. The High Evolutionary is trying to create the perfect species and is testing on animals, evolving them and – if things don’t go the way he wants – burning them alive. Rocket is first seen as a baby raccoon cowering in a cage. While Rocket is comatose, the audience sees his memories of how he was experimented on and the close friendships he made with fellow animal prisoners.

When Rocket is wounded in a sneak attack, his Guardians teammates – including Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and Drax (Dave Bautista) – go on a desperate high-stakes mission to save him, which includes tussling with the cruel and ruthless villain, the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), who “created” Rocket. 3' review: Chris Pratt's space misfits bow out gloriously Cover your eyes: Baby Rocket is subjected to cruel experiments in flashbacks And Gunn brings that origin to unnerving but empowering life in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

In the first 2014 “Guardians,” writer/director James Gunn showed a glimpse of sores and mechanization on the back of Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and hinted at the raccoon's tragic backstory. But if you hide your eyes, you might miss the point.

3,” so beware if you haven’t seen it yet.īecause a talking raccoon and an alien tree are core characters, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies have been popular with children, though for sensitive little ones – and animal-loving big kids – the new film might be tough to watch at times. Spoiler alert! The following discusses important plot elements of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

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