Top Gunn: Mav-RickOVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Rick and Morty are unsatisfied with the newest entry of their favorite sci-fi franchise and take it to the man at the top: director James Gunn.OUR TAKEIf you’re still on Twitter…why? But if you are, and you’re current with news about the upcoming Superman movie, you may have been made aware of the still ongoing fandom feud between those who enjoy Zack Snyder’s Superman movies and those who enjoy James Gunn’s movies and are looking forward to the one he’s directing that comes out this week. Well, it seems Warner Bros is at least somewhat aware of this and decided to hit three birds with one stone by promoting their upcoming movie, giving their new golden boy director more attention, and try to placate the side of this that will never be happy by having Snyder himself show up and have a scene with his Super Successor. That last one definitely failed, but what can you do. Oh yeah, we’re supposed to be talking about a Rick and Morty episode. This is hardly the first or second time that this show has dug into being meta about writing and creativity and character arcs and what have you, and it probably won’t be the last. I’m personally pretty interested in that stuff myself (I wouldn’t be doing a blog about cartoons if I wasn’t at least a little curious), but what matters is if there is a story holding all of these inside baseball jokes together.Luckily, there IS! But it’s still pretty thin. This is not really as thorough or nuanced as the Story Train episode and leans more into tropes specifically from recent superhero movies. The main point to get across seems to just be that while many may complain that a late entry in an ongoing movie franchise may not be up to their standards as a consumer, making a movie itself is pretty dang hard, so we should appreciate the effort it takes to put that together at all. Which, hey, I can absolutely get behind that, especially right now when it seems like studios are looking for any way to cut actual human beings out of the process. Kinda weird that the main drive of this story is that Rick is basically using some advanced AI to rewrite the movie he didn’t like, which is definitely something I’ve seen weirdos on the internet say studios should do when a movie gets too “woke”, but I think I get the jist. Still, not the best version of this sort of episode plot and clearly there to help with brand synergy, but…it was fun enough, so it’s fine.