By Emilio Frenk.
Director: James Gunn
Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gilian, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Tommy Flanagan, Chris Sullivan, Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell.
Rating: Excellent.
James Gunn, Director of the First Installment of “Guardians of the Galaxy”, which became one of 2014 Box Office hits in the summer brings the second part with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and again I was blown away.
The movie centers again in the Guardians Peter Quill, aka “Star Lord” (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and the new add on in the Guardians family Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) who after an unsuccessful mission they are being followed by a celestial and mysterious cosmic being named Ego (Kurt Russell).
After the Guadians have this encounter, Ego reveils himself as Peter´s father. This surprises Peter which not only this statement from Ego will set him to a journey of self discovery were he will know the truth and how special his powers are.
What made the first “Guardians of the Galaxy” a fun and entertaining movie to watch were the characters and for any movie no matter what the genre is you need to have solid and memorable characters.
Here with this second part not only James Gunn directed a brilliant sequel but wrote another wonderful screenplay and we saw tha main characters with even bigger struggles.
About the plot, Gunn was very smart on engaging two main plots into one movie and it did work. Normally this can be a very risky formula since it can confuse the audience but this was not the case here.
Here we got the chance to see one of the major conflicts on Chris Pratt´s character and again we route for him in the entire film. The scenes where Pratt is with Kurt Russell are the best scenes during the movie and Russell´s character I must say is fascinating. We see a complete character here and we really believe his true intentions towards Pratt´s character during the film.
The movie not only is entertaining from beginning to end but one of the things that Gunn was really smart is using the comedy with the characters and works at all levels, specially with the character of Rocket, voiced by Bradley Cooper who has very funny moments and here is even more funnier than in the first film.
Normally sequels have the tendency to fail due to mediocre screenplays but here it was totally the opposite and I must say that this second part surpasses the original since we see a more solid and concise story.
I feel the movie if it would have had a shorter length would be still a great film but other than that I had no problem with it and I really enjoyed.
I mentioned in this space that “Logan” is so far the best adaptation from Marvel Comics to the big screen, well I put “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2” at that same level and are the best adaptation of comics that I have seen so far in this present year.
One piece of advice before watching is this film is if you haven´t seen the first part, watch it since it does have a sequence in terms of storyline and the fact that you will be entertained with it.
“Guardians of The Galaxy Vol 2” is indeed an enjoyable and entertaining experience and I highly recommend it.