Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) by Tcat55 — 09 May 2017

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 that builds upon the first movie, but not how a typical Marvel sequel or any action adventure sequel does it. Instead James Gunn decides to build upon the views emotion by diving deeper into each of the characters past and present emotions.

The audience gets to find out what makes each character tick. Whether it is Peter Quill and his Father issues or Nebula and Gamora having sister issues or even probably one of the more emotional at least for me was Rocket and Yondu bond that is created with this film.

Usually in sequels directors like to go bolder with their action and make even bigger explosions, but with this the action takes a slight backseat compared to great dialogue. Don't get me wrong the action is great all of around from the opening sequence to the end the action was fantastic, but it's the dialogue from each character that makes me feel their pain throughout the whole movie.

Not only is the dialogue and action fantastic in the movie but also the mixtape which James Gunn created is fantastic as well. Each song fit so well into each scene, and I find me self going back to replay all the songs because it is so catchy.

James Gunn use of color also makes this film beautiful with different variations of color. Some people feel that Marvel films are ugly when they discuss color but this film can have no argument. The use of color on each of the planets and especially the last scene blew me away.

Now some spoilers here the creation of Ego the living planet was awesome the detail that was given to that planet had me blown away. Now even more spoilers that I want to talk about quickly, one of them being the Sovereign people.

I thought they were a nice touch to move the plot along at times. I liked who they were used and the technology that they had to try and defeat the Guardians. I believe that they will have a much bigger role in Vol 3 no doubt.

Ego, Peters fathers was probably one of the best villains in the MCU because he was actually a real human being, which people can relate to rather than a monster but also because he had an emotional story with Peter.

Kurt Russles performance was out of this world as always. The only negative I can say which really isn't a negative at all was the humor. At one or two times during the film I found myself saying "eh I wish they didn't put that joke I never there" but I wouldn't care because I still laughed at it so really I do t even consider that a big negative but it was something to say.

So would I reccomend this movie? Absolutely, for me personal I know this is a bold statement but this is my favorite Marvel Movie right now. When comparing this to the first one I have a hard time picking a favorite because I feel like the information you learn from the second one elevates the first movie.

I won't spoiler any of that here it's better to experience on your own but, I truly had a fun time with this movie it's my favorite and I will say as of now it is better than the first. The way the use family and emotion to capture the character and make views relate to each character is fantastic.

And probably one of my favorite things about this movie was that James Gunn had freedom to do whatever he wants, this movie had no connections to movie the whole MCU story closer to Thanos and I was 100% fine with that.