Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the adventures of the team.
The first Guardians is an extremely fun comic book movie. Before seeing it I was not familiar with the characters, but afterwards loved them. Naturally my anticipation was high for this sequel.
This film is just as much fun as the first. It shows the team develop their relationships between each other while making the states higher.
Like a Fast and Furious film, this deals a lot with family. I feel that the F&F films don't develop the family theme other than Vin Diesel or Paul Walker or Michelle Rodriguez saying that they're family, though they do it nowhere near as badly as Suicide Squad. Here, they actually develop the team so that you semi-believe the family theme. It is further developed by Peter meeting his father, Gamora and Nebula's relationship, Drax having a surrogate father/daughter relationship with Mantis, and the team caring for Baby Groot.
Speaking of Baby Groot, he is the best part. Sure, he's an easy laugh, but his cuteness, innocence and hilarity completely won me over. Vying for second best is tough, as Yondu has the best arc but Drax has the best lines. Michael Rooker helped bring depth and soul to what was a side character in the first film. Dave Bautista has improved his acting since the first and delivers all his lines brilliantly.
Sadly it is not as good as the original. James Gunn has been left alone to write the film this time, and the James Gunn-ness has increased. The first time I saw Vol. 2 I was skeptical about the increased Gunn-ness, but the second time I wholly accepted it. There is also some story structure problems: the team is split up for quite a while, which made it a bit meandering.
In short: GOTGV2 is just as fun as the first, but not quite as good.
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