Guardians of the Galaxy 2

 Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (2017)

• Director: James Gunn
• Seen by the director: The Suicide Squad
• Based on the Marvel Comic
• Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Elizabeth Debicki, Sean Gunn
• Chris Pratt – Zero Dark Thirty, Wanted
• Zoe Saldana – Pirates of the Caribbean Black Pearl
• Karen Gillan – The Circle, Doctor Who
• Sylvester Stallone – Rambo, I suppose
• Kurt Russell – The Hateful Eight, Once upon a Time in Hollywood, Overboard, Escape from New York, Silkwood, various series from the 60’s
• Elizaebth Debicki – Tenet, Widows, The Cloverfield Paradox, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Night Manager, Macbeth, The Great Gatsby
• Sean Gunn – Suicide Squad, Third Rock from the Sun
• Why? Confused it with Galaxy Quest
• Seen: 14 June 2022      

       This is Volume 2. I haven’t seen Volume 1, but I’ll give it a try.

       A cute little Groot, a talking fox, a green human, a white human, a funny-coloured Hulk, a many tenacled monster with a lot of teeth which the others kill. The others are, I guess, the anti-hero good guys and they’re all good friends (see, no doubt, Volume 1). The green woman has a blue sister, and they hate each other. The fox – or maybe it’s a raccoon, steals some super valuable batteries so the Golden High Princess is peeved and sends a lot of rockets after them, so they fly through an asteroid belt and joke about turds, and then the white human’s long-lost father shows up and he’s a god so…

       Do you really need to know more? There is a story of sorts but it’s not very interesting. There is some humour which brings a smile or two, there are some pretty effects, and the racoon is convincing, but I don’t think I need to see Volume 1. I’m not sure I need to see the rest of this one.

       Well, I did, sort of. I paid some bills and checked my mail. But a few touching family moments and the good music raise it to      

2 * of 5