Animal rights organisation PETA has hailed Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as an “animal rights masterpiece.”
Directed by James Gunn, the movie is the third installment of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.
The movie features Chris Pratt, Zoë Saldaña, Bradley Cooper, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan and Vin Diesel, as Star Lord, Gamora, Rocket, Mantis, Drax, Nebula and Groot, respectively, in lead roles.
“Through Rocket, James Gunn has put a face, a name, and a personality on the millions of vulnerable animals being cycled through laboratories as we speak,” PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange said in a statement on Monday.
“Peta is celebrating this as the best animal rights film of the year for helping audiences see animals as individuals and suggesting that just because we can experiment on them doesn’t mean that we should,” she added.
In the movie, viewers are shown a flashback of Rocket being tortured by the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), to turn the anthropomorphic raccoon into a powerful weapon.
Watching recordings of Rocket’s past, Nebula says using animals in experimentation is “worse than anything Thanos ever did.”
Rocket is later seen avenging the deaths of his friends (Lylla, Floor, and Teefs) due to continuous mistreatment and experimentation in the movie, which PETA said exposed the “evils of animal testing.”
PETA also honoured Gunn with a Not a Number Award for “his kind and compelling portrayal of Rocket and his friends and reminding moviegoers that animals tortured in laboratories are sentient beings and not the numbers tattooed on them,” according to a blog post by the organisation.
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