The fictional, extremely long Reception section from the Wikipedia article (including a Reception section filled with reviews and including Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic) for Alex Wood's 2018 epic animated war action comedy film Snoopy - World War II. In the film, set in a reality where Snoopy really did fight in World War I and serving as a sequel to either the original trilogy or the reboot trilogy, takes place 26 years later during World War II, where an aged and retired Snoopy is redrafted into the war. Praise was widely positive, with the emotional depth, humor, action sequences, direction, cinematography, atmosphere, vocal performances (particularly for Snoopy), musical score, visuals, writing and mature handling of the themes of age, death and existentialism. The ending never explicitly states whether Snoopy lives or dies at the end, keeping his fate ambiguos. It is considered one of, if not the best film in the franchise, as well as the darkest and most emotional one. Example:
Box office

As of May 22, 2023, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has grossed $270.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $393.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $664.1 million.[3][4]

In the US and Canada, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was projected to gross around $110 million from 4,450 theaters in its opening weekend.[216] The film made $48.2 million on its first day,[217] including $17.5 million from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut with $118.4 million, topping the box office.[218] In its second weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 retained the top spot at the box office with $62 million,[219][220][221] a 48% decline from its opening weekend and the best second-weekend hold of any sequel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a notably smaller second-weekend decline than those of the franchise's recent releases, including Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (70%), Thor: Love and Thunder (68%), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (67%).[221][222] The film made $32 million in its third weekend, being dethroned by Fast X, another film starring Vin Diesel.[223]

Outside the US and Canada, the film grossed $168.1 million in its opening weekend.[224] In its second weekend, the film grossed $92 million for a drop of 40% from its opening weekend. The highest-grossing territories were China ($58.4 million), the United Kingdom ($29.6 million), Mexico ($24.8 million), South Korea ($22.1 million), and France ($18.3 million).[225]

Critical response

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 85%, with an average score of 7.6/10, based on 491 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Avengers: Infinity War ably juggles a dizzying array of MCU heroes in the fight against their gravest threat yet, and the result is a thrilling, emotionally resonant blockbuster that (mostly) realizes its gargantuan ambitions."[202] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100 based on 54 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[203]

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter praised the writers' and directors' ability to balance the large cast of characters, saying they, "under the supervision of Marvel Films maestro Kevin Feige, acknowledge the traffic jam of egos and play it for laughs".[204] Owen Gleiberman of Variety concurred, stating, "Infinity War is a brashly entertaining jamboree, structured to show off each hero or heroine and give them just enough to do, and to update their mythologies without making it all feel like homework".[205] Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said the film is "too much of a good thing" and wrote, "The Russo brothers have clearly never learned the concept that less is more. They've used the premise of an Avengers reunion to put on a fireworks explosion of action and laughs that won't quit".[206] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times called it Marvel's "biggest and most ambitious movie yet", but concluded "it's certainly not the best. However, there's plenty of action, humor and heart—and some genuinely effective dramatic moments". Roeper went on to praise the film's cast and Josh Brolin in particular, whom he called "the film's most interesting performance".[207] Gleiberman called Brolin's motion capture performance "supremely effective" and said, "Brolin infuses Thanos with his slit-eyed manipulative glower, so that the evil in this movie never feels less than personal".[205] McCarthy wrote, "Brolin's calm, considered reading of the character bestows this conquering beast with an unexpectedly resonant emotional dimension, making him much more than a thick stick figure of a supervillain".[204] Gleiberman also praised the film's action sequences, saying "Infinity War brims with tensely spectacular combat sequences, even if the question of who's going to win each one has that extravagantly arbitrary could-Mighty-Mouse-beat-up-Superman? quality".[205] McCarthy called the scale of the action "astonishing",[204] and Travers wrote, "Avengers: Infinity War leaves viewers up in the air, feeling exhilarated and cheated at the same time, aching for a closure that never comes".[206] Josh Spiegel, also of The Hollywood Reporter, said the film takes "a cue from the ending of The Empire Strikes Back in its super-sized finale; this is the equivalent of Han Solo frozen in the carbonite, on steroids".[208]

A. O. Scott of The New York Times criticized the film's reliance on other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying, "Considered on its own, as a single, nearly 2-hour-40-minute movie, Avengers: Infinity War makes very little sense", but conceded that it "was never meant to be viewed or judged in isolation".[209] Richard Brody of The New Yorker agreed, stating, "The insubstantiality of the film isn't due to the infinite yet flimsy malleability of C.G.I. gimmickry but, instead, to the dispersion of its drama throughout the many cinematic installations set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe".[210] Stephanie Zacharek of Time said, "[It] isn't really a beginning, but more of a middle or an end with a new piece of yarn attached. You need to have seen and internalized every one of the previous 18 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to fully get it".[211] Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times called it a "brisk, propulsive, occasionally rousing and borderline-gutsy continuation of a saga that finally and sensibly seems to be drawing to a close", but called its ultimate bid for catharsis "unsuccessful" since the Marvel "assembly line [is not stopped] from chugging ahead with its signature polished, mechanized efficiency".[212] Scott also criticized the action sequences, calling them "tedious and predictable" and "surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination".[209] Likewise, Zacharek said, "There's no pacing in Avengers: Infinity War. It's all sensation and no pulse. Everything is big, all of the time".[211]