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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

 

My family and I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and I found it hilarious.  Rocket Raccoon steals every scene he is in.  I was going to write a review but my friend Darwin Catholic has a review I doubt I could surpass:MrsDarwin and I got a chance to go see Guardians of the Galaxy on Mothers Day afternoon. In what increasingly seems our standard model for blockbusters, the eldest three kids had already seen it, and we were getting the second shift a week later.

I enjoyed the movie. It had a lot of the elements I enjoyed from the original, and Baby Groot is as cute as promised. In some ways, the story was tighter and more compelling than in the original. And yet, with the writing success, there was something a little darker to it as well that I’ve been trying to think through. Joseph Moore had a interesting take that I’m mostly in agreement with (contains spoilers) over at Yard Sale of the Mind.

Here’s what I’ve come to in a spoiler-free take. There was a lot that was enjoyable about the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie. It grabbed me right from the first scene, where Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill puts on his headphones and dances his way across an alien cave (at point point picking up a reptilian rat-like creature and singing into it as a microphone) on his way to steal a mysterious ancient alien artifact from a ruined city. It was a great scene, and it followed by a confrontation with some minor bad guys who have never heard of Quill’s self-assigned galactic criminal nickname “Star Lord” give us a feel for the great music, the fantastic settings, and the likable loser of the main character who we follow through the rest of the movie.

While the plot eventually brings us a pair of bloodthirsty warlords as villains and an ancient relic powerful enough to maintain or destroy the universe, the characters we follow are mostly comic and have a certain kind of small scale which often goes with a comic character. In the action scene which introduces us to Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot, we have a comic fight scene masterpiece in which despite the variety of swords and ray guns being used, no one ends up much hurt. None of the characters have a principled aversion to violence. Gamora’s rap sheet includes working as an assassin, and Rocket Raccoon is a thief with a fondness for huge energy weapons. But rather than epic heroes fighting massive battles, our characters are small time criminals who stumble into a situation where they end up saving the galaxy.

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David
David
Friday, May 26, AD 2017 3:04am

The first is one of my favorite movies, looking forward to seeing the second. When anyone starts parroting some progressive double speak, I quote from the first movie: “I ain’t buying it….” 😉

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