by Burn » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:41 am
- Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings to randomly click things in the Admin Panel to see what it breaks."
The a-holes are back!
Just like the first Guardians of Galaxy, Volume 2 was incredibly fun!
The Movie!
This movie sees the introduction of Ego as the main protagonist. In a shift from the comics, Ego is in fact Quills father, and also ... humanoid? As it turns out, Kurt Russells Ego is more of an avatar. Ego is still very much a living planet.
There's character building, but also a lot of relationship building.
Yondu is segregated from the greater Ravagers community for his part in child trafficking (a big no no in the Ravagers). This leads to a crew mutiny and Yondu ending up helping the Guardians. His relationship with Quill is given more light with the real reason for Yondu not delivering Peter revealed.
The simmering relationship between Gamora and Quill grows, but Gamoras big relationship building comes between her and Nebula.
Quill, not content with relationship building between his father, Yondu and Gamora, also has to work on his relationship with Rocket.
In fact, the only ones not really involved in relationship building is Drax (who is a complete and utter jerk towards Mantis) and Baby Groot (who just gets annoying).
Stan Lee!
Holy **** ... not one, but TWO Stan Lee appearances. The first is during the movie and is a very brief scene where we see him sitting on an asteroid in a space suit, telling THE WATCHER about his time as a delivery man!
His second appearance is a during-the-credits scene, back on the asteroid only there's now three Watchers who are walking off, obviously bored with his stories.
The major thing here is this appearance refers to a previous appearance implying that all those Stan Lee appearances are in fact, the same character!
Credits Scenes
It was announced last week that there were in fact multiple credits scenes.
- Stakar Ogord (Sylvester Stallone) is seen with other Ravager Captains who agree to all come together to steal stuff.
- Stan Lee and Watchers
- Quill walking in on ... TEENAGE GROOT! Yep, Groot is no longer a baby and is now a teenager, complete with cracked voice and messy bedroom.
- Golden High Priestess of The Sovereign - After having their entire fleet wiped out by the Guardians, the High Priestess reveals her plan for revenge, the next stage in the evolution of The Sovereign, a cocoon ... and the man inside will be known as ... "Adam" (Warlock)
All in all, great story, well written, great characters. Nothing really setting up other MCU movies (I thought there may have been a credits scene to set up Ragnarok) nor anything else to connect with the rest of the MCU other than mentioning Thanos. So it is its own separate movie which will of course no doubt fit in when future movies are released.
