Guardians of the Galaxy 2

By: Anton Massopust III

“Peter throughout the Universe, I’ve done a lot of mistakes, but you are not one of them.”

Fear not, true believers! The Guardians of the Galaxy have returned and are taking on one of the worst villains of the universe. The Guardians are employed to stop a group of monsters from stealing batteries from a group of super superior beings. Their High Priestess makes a bargain with them to capture Nebula (Karen Gillan), but Rocket (Bradley Cooper) steals some valuable batteries and now they’re after them. After a strange being saves the Guardians, a man known as Ego (Kurt Russell) rescues them and tells them that he is Star-Lord’s father and takes them to a nearby planet to show Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) his true purpose. They also introduce a young alien girl named Mantis (Pom Klementief) who has empathic powers.

This movie is about family. Each of the Guardians deals with family issues. Rocket finds out what his place in the universe. Nebula and Gamora (Zoe Saldana) come together to unite against Thanos.

We find out more about Drax’s (Dave Boutista) character. Even Yondo (Michael Rooker), the former leader of the Ravengers finds out that he is done some bad things and he’s better off being a good guy. He’s trying to try to become a guardian and make up for all his misdeeds. Star Lord finds out who his father really is and what he is planning to do and what purpose he has for him.

This Marvel movie has sensory overload cameos by tons of characters including Howard the Duck, the Watchers, Stan Lee and many others. It has an awesome soundtrack from songs from the 70’s and 80’s which is sure to be on everyone’s playlist.

What I like about this movie is it doesn’t need to establish all the characters again. You just are thrown right into the Marvel Universe as the Guardians fight and argue just like a regular family and save the universe.

I didn’t mention Baby Groot who is cute and funny. Drax was an extremely funny in this movie. The film has wonderful special effects as we see different worlds come alive on screen.

It’s definitely worth seeing and I will probably add this to my growing DVD collection.