Drax says he used to make his daughter happy by...making monkey noises. Fucking WHAT?!? Because Drax, from another planet across the galaxy, used to make monkey noises. Because I guess this universe is made by Hello Games where all the planets have the same creatures on them. This movie is so fucking dumb.
You're complaining that a universe where almost every intelligent species is humanoid, and speak languages that humans can learn and understand, also have species that resemble monkeys and that make similar noises? Because it kinda follows that if other species look almost exactly like humans, then they're going to have closely related species that resemble the species that are closely related to humans.
"But they wouldn't be called monkeys!" They're space monkeys. Are you not aware of the
old science fiction trope? (Space Australia!) See also related tropes of:
Translation Convention,
Call A Smeerp a Rabbit,
Fantastic Fauna Counterpart, and many more.
Also, even on earth humans do this thing where we call new animals a variation of old animals, even if they're not actually related. Bearcats are neither bears, nor cats. Red pandas are not pandas. Mountain goats are from a different genus than true goats.
Etc. Etc. Not to mention sea cucumber, sea cow, sea horse, sea lion, etc. Imagine what we'll do if we ever get to another planet with life and have to start communicating about alien creatures.
So, rather than spend several minutes explaining convergent evolution, Peter's infectious personality and how everyone starts using his Earth references, whatever universal translator bullshit is going on in the MCU to let almost everyone speak English, etc. The movie just gets right to the character moment, and skips all the unimportant fluff. Because it is possible to explain that Drax once told Peter about the creatures on his home planet that are a different branch of the evolutionary tree that produced Kylosians, and Peter immediately said "those are monkeys, you're describing monkeys", so Drax now calls them monkeys, even though they had another name on his home planet. Or maybe the universal translator just uses the word monkey when Drax says
f&$ghl because that's the closest equivalent word.
Personally, I prefer it when my science fiction just gets right to the point and avoids over explaining everything. I'll give a movie (game, book, etc.) the benefit of the doubt when it comes to shit like this if the pace keeps up, and the characters/story are interesting. I'd rather quickly have Drax make monkey noises and be instantly recognized as a dad doing silly dad things, than spend several minutes explaining why a space dad can do silly space dad things because there's a space lore space explanation of how made-up-species-name makes made-up-species-sounds on made-up-planet-name, and that's considered funny by Kylosian children (and not terrifying because made-up-species-sounds can't sound familiar and funny, it has to sound alien and thus not comfortingly familiar).
Have I over-explained everything enough to absolutely kill the joke? Or would you still like the movie to over-explain everything as well?
