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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

2017 Directed by James Gunn

Obviously.

The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.

Chris Pratt Zoe Saldana Dave Bautista Vin Diesel Bradley Cooper Michael Rooker Karen Gillan Pom Klementieff Elizabeth Debicki Chris Sullivan Sean Gunn Sylvester Stallone Kurt Russell Wyatt Oleff Aaron Schwartz Laura Haddock Gregg Henry Seth Green Molly C. Quinn Evan Jones Jimmy Urine Stephen Blackehart Steve Agee Joe Fria Terence Rosemore Tommy Flanagan Richard Christy Michael Rosenbaum Ving Rhames Show All…

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Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 41

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Setting: Marvel Board Meeting

Kevin: "And then I said, we already put in 3 end-credits scenes, how about 2 more?!?"

*eruptive laughter*

Marvel Exec #2: "You're such a card, Kevin."

Kevin: "These movies don't make themselves!"

Marvel Exec #3: "Well I mean they kinda do. That's why we installed that conveyer belt in northern Idaho and everything."

Kevin: "You got me there!"

*Meeting Room door opens*

Kevin: "Well look who it is, our crazy director intern, come in James."

Marvel Exec #4: "Excuse me, Kevin, but who is this?"

Kevin: "This, ladies and gentlemen, was the director on Guardians of the Galaxy, a movie which we allowed to be somewhat creative and it payed off! I bought my sixth…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 81

the first one was bad.

this one is very, very good.

even the fucking bradley cooper raccoon is tolerable. a Marvel movie with actual emotion and shot compositions that don't look like they were determined by a computer (even if everything *in* them was)!

i don't make the rules, people. down is the new up.
Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 6

Did you like the first one? This is funnier, weirder, way more visually idiosyncratic, doesn't end with a poorly-edited fistfight or ship smashing into a city, and has generous helpings of Kurt Russell and Fleetwood Mac.
Review by Katie ★★★★ 8

drax's laugh is gonna save the world
Review by xavier ★★★★ 3

tag yourself. i'm baby groot blasting and dancing to electric light orchestra's mr. blue sky and not giving a single fuck.
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★½ 26

Fuck....

Wasn't expecting this to be as much of an emotionally draining experience as "Colossal" but here we are.

After a bit of a rough patch in my personal life in the last two weeks, this was exactly what I needed; a good old fashioned piece of Sci-Fi Adventure, with an incredible soundtrack, great characters (both old and new), and plenty of hilarious moments.

If Gunn was aiming for "Star Wars"/80s Sci-Fi with his previous installment, then he's retroactively taken a step backwards into "Star Trek"/70s Sci-Fi with his sequel. From the lush colors, set designs, and even plot structure, all feels more in line with "The Wrath of Kahn" than "The Empire Strikes Back". Which is more than welcomed…

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Review by pbmaxx ★½

A real disappointment. Too much time on cloying attempts at emotional depth and too little time on what made the first installment so great: fun!
Review by Jacko ★★★★

Character driven and full of emotion, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 improves upon it's predecessor in almost every way. Cut out The Sovereign and Karen Gillan's terrible, annoying, and over the top performance (please calm tf down) and this would be my favorite film in the MCU.
Review by Froof ★★★½

I may have actually enjoyed this one more than the first. Still, there were too many characters and too many failed laughs for it to be really great. I did enjoy that is was more emotional than the first rather then just a mindless action flick.
Review by jackbaty ★★★

Almost lost me in the first 15 minutes. Way too silly for its own good. Felt to me like they took what they thought made the first film successful and just cranked up those bits. I enjoyed the middle portion, so stuck with it.
Review by GigiJ ★★★

OH MY GOD, THIS ONE WAS ACTUALLY GOOD.
Just like the first GotG film, it is made of action, humor and impressive special effects. Except, unlike the first GotG film, it is actually funny, the villains aren't totally ridiculous, major plot points aren't ruined by lame jokes that relieve tension so much that you stop giving a shit about the whole film and even though the plot is nothing original, it is very well structured and executed.

I genuinely expected it to be the same overrated. unfunny trainwreck that the first movie was and I was very pleasantly surprised. It wasn't a masterpiece but it was good and funny and charming and sometimes even sweet, so yeah, I liked it.
Review by Michael's Cinema Paradiso ★★★

Afterthoughts: Man, being on the visual effects team for this would have been tough, because boy, did they have their work cut out!

While it's hard to be wholly engaged by a film that is seemingly 90% computer generated imagery, GotG Vol. 2 is pretty fun, and undeniably funny. It plays like a messed up mash up of Ratchet & Clank meets Metroid, with an eye-popping video game aesthetic and uber-long violent set pieces.

I didn't take to Guardians of the Galaxy on my first viewing. Initially, I gave it a 4/10, before rewatching it a year later and upping that rating to a 7/10. While the 2nd romp doesn't quite live up to the 1st in terms of a decent…
Review by Dante Hemingway ★★½

Fell asleep countless times last week. I don't know how my friend is watching this shit 24/7 but her and I got nothing better to do so I finally finished this "okay cashgrab crap".

It's definitely watchable but its first half is so painful to get through. It's pretty much the rehash of the first one with Yondu's sacrifice & notably cute Groot moments) but I just dont find their adventure remotely interesting.

The first one's soundtrack was the best thing that ever happened to this franchise but this time they overused it. They ruined Fleetwood Mac's song for me. How fucking dare you.

Chris Pratt is getting worse and worse at acting lmao he sucked so bad in this one.…
Review by Gus Braidotti ★★★★

I love this disfanctional family, it's my fav comic and the movies perfectly cast. I hope they make one fin a year for ever.
Review by Bryce Thompson ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

1. I liked this better than the first one
2. I really wanted Kurt Russell to be a good guy
3. I wonder if he was thinking about being Walt Disney's last words during the filming of any of the scenes
4. The ending was actually really sweet
5. I've had a bottle of wine and I'm not sure if the ending actually was "really sweet"
6. I hate myself for being a MCU whore
7. I'm sort of tired of daddy issues
8. I'm never tried of daddy issues
9. Chris Pratt and Anna Farris splitting up is sad, but a result of difference in star status
10. Sylvester Stallone will never again reach the prestige he experienced in Spy Kids 3D. Such range...