I really hope that it’s just a marketing thing that they’re overblowing in the trailers, but it’s still annoying.
I just get the sneaking suspicion that some exec thought, “Wow, that Baby Groot scene at the end of the first one was a real sleeper hit! Everyone loved it!” then saw the dollar signs and said, “Now, what if he was a baby the WHOLE MOVIE?!”
The poster is literally this:
In all fairness to The Mask, they didn’t put Milo the dog on there until it hit home video. He did almost steal the movie though.