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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2 (5/5/17)
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DEN OF GEEKS: Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 review

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Indeed, the team’s reintroduction feels like a genuine contender for one of the great modern blockbuster action sequences of recent times. As soon as it was over I wanted to see it again. It’s almost a shame this particular sequence comes at the start, because it sets the bar so high that the film can’t quite reach it a second time. Beyond that, you know the formula: deft comedy, a selection of well-curated pop songs, and a group of people who can barely stop bickering with one another long enough to aim in the same direction. What’s not to like?

 

Set just months after the first Guardians movie, the gang are getting by as heroes for hire, living up to their reputation as troublemakers-turned-galactic saviours. But of course, word travels fast, and when they’re not making more trouble for themselves, trouble is now actively finding them. Rest assured that saving the universe hasn’t made them any smarter or more pious. If anything, it’s had the opposite effect.

 

Still, when expectations are so high that’s arguably a feat in itself, especially since not a frame of the movie qualifies as a disappointment. After the apparent risk of the first movie, this one is something of a victory lap. Cameos, in-jokes, references and textual winks get piled on top of great characters, story, music and visuals. The experience of watching Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 is one of unreserved joy, and news that Gunn is directing a third comes as absolutely no surprise. Based on this, we’d pre-order our tickets today if we could.

 

OVERALL SCORE: 4.0/5.0 Stars

 

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VARIETY: 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' Review: A Good But Lesser Sequel

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What do you do for an encore to the best comic-book movie in years? James Gunn's sequel is a witty and extravagant followup, but it works harder for less fun.

 

The word “Marvel,” as in comic books or movie studios, has become a foundational term of our culture. Yet you could sit through almost every one of today’s comic-book movies and not find a whole lot to marvel at. That’s where “Guardians of the Galaxy” came in. In an era of overstuffed, taped-together blockbusters, it was supremely funny, exciting, and well-made — a rock ‘n’ roll space opera, spectacular yet lithe, without a stray shot or sequence out of place, and with a wildly caustic yet devotional interplay among its motley crew of renegades that recalled the original 1977 “Star Wars” (obviously its chief influence). The film wielded the machinery of big-budget franchise film-making and trumped it at the same time. So the question of what “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” can do for an encore isn’t really, “Can it top the first film?” It’s more like, “Can it be as good?”

 

Pratt, through it all, keeps his badass-lite swagger irreverent and commanding. In the right role (like this one), he knows how to express disdain and exuberance in equal measure — in other words, how to play an a—hole you can’t help but like. Yet it’s easy to feel that the conflicts in “Vol. 2” are a bit rote, whether it’s Peter upping the ante on his feisty flirtation with Gamora (he explains that their unspoken bond makes them just like Sam and Diane on “Cheers”) or Gamora duking it out with her seething bionic adoptive sister Nebula (Karen Gillan). It’s all impeccably staged, yet stuff happens because the movie needs stuff to keep happening. One is grateful for the comic relief, especially from Bautista, who makes Drax so literal-minded — and so up front about his imperious male gaze — that his every judgmental utterance feels spontaneous. As for Rocket, Cooper burrows ever more hilariously into his babbly hostility (“Hope daddy isn’t as big a as you, orphan boy!”) and the ratty self-hatred beneath it.

 

The gods of sci-fi spectacle must, of course, be served, and the climax of “Vol. 2” is exorbitant, rousing, touching, and just obligatory enough to be too much of a good thing. (That isn’t even counting the half-dozen post-credit teaser scenes, which make the film feel like…TV.) Baby Groot, as cuddly as Poppin’ Fresh, gets to scurry and plant a time bomb, Gamora gets to wield a machine gun the size of a refrigerator, and Yondu gets to do ever more dizzying flights of damage with his loop-the-loop arrow of death. The person who turns out to be the film’s lord of darkness morphs into all sorts of liquid digital forms, and there’s an in-the-middle-of-space farewell between Peter and someone close to him that’s beautiful and moving. If only the film could have left it at that! The fallen character winds up being given a light-show funeral worthy of a Communist head of state. The difference between the first “Guardians” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is that the new movie is flush with what a big deal it is. Ironically, that makes it a smaller deal.

It's sounding like the third act is massive. Bigger than anything Marvel has ever released before.

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USA TODAY Review: Great 'Guardians of the Galaxy' sequel is just short of magical

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Just like the first one, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a winning and wonderfully relatable gem of crazy.

 

The creative mind of writer/director James Gunn comes alive again in this hysterical and surprisingly touching sequel (rated PG-13; in theaters May 5) filled with misfits saving the universe once more, a guy who’s a living planet, a cosmic biker gang with loyalty issues and people pin-balling through space like Bugs Bunny cartoons on fast-forward.

 

It’s missing some of the ragtag underdog charm of 2014’s insta-classic Guardians that made it one of the best Marvel efforts ever. Yet Vol. 2 becomes in its own way a more confident and well-rounded movie by experimenting with character relationships, familial rivalry and its own successful template.

 

That’s what makes Gunn’s Guardians series so marvelous, though. The action and story are epic but the small quirks — like its mini sentient tree — make a big difference.

 

OVERALL SCORE: 3.5/4.0 Stars

 

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It opened here in Australia 2 days ago - (I wont give any spoilers) Id agree with the review above - it has some great moments and it has some average ones - overall its pretty good !  the 4 people I saw it with (2 teenagers) all enjoyed it -

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On 4/28/2017 at 9:53 AM, chezmtghut said:

 

On 4/28/2017 at 9:13 AM, Straw-Man said:

one of these days marvel is bound to hit that 25-28% dc sweetspot.

:roflmao:

 

That was funny.  lol  Kinda mean, but funny.

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15 hours ago, NewEnglandGothic said:

Marvel hasn't been able to top this one yet.

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(worship) 

It's the pride of my VHS library.

#gopats

 

Wait... they had this movie way back in 1978? I've never seen it before. I'd image it was not available on DVD, no?

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