Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn, 2017): The Dream Team In Another Dimension.
- Katherine Goodyear
- Jul 10, 2017
- 3 min read
Just like the first Guardians Of The Galaxy, it never failed to impress us with their witty humour and convivial soundtrack. It offers a lot more space (no pun intended) to explore and have fun with the film and evoke enjoyment, which is as the director evidently intended. Now saying this, a Marvel film has certain expectations, and considering the first film got excitingly positive reviews, and grossing $773.3 million worldwide, so the sequel had high expectations, with the sudden audience "hype" as soon as the marketing posters came out. A lot was riding on, as you can tell, expectations. Fortunately, James Gunn did not disappoint, as the film grossed $857 million worldwide, becoming the third highest grossing film in 2017. However, was the film complete perfection? Of course not, a film never is, there could have been slight room for improvement, but all in all their were barely any faults with the film.
Peter Quill/ Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) is a witty, cocky and lovable character, always coaxing some sort of obnoxious comment to any social situation, whether that be good or bad. I believe that we love Pratt's character more than any other Marvel character because he is somewhat unconventional. In the marvel universe we have characters such as Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and more, which are somewhat different in their own way, but they are also more or less the same. The difference with Peter Quill is that he doesn't really do anything for the greater good, as majority of the time he only thinks of himself, he is like any other human, and that's the most important part, he is human, he is quite a relatable character to the spectator, which aids the connection. Other characters such as: Rocket (Bradley Cooper); Groot (Vin Diesel); Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Drax (Dave Bautista) help to unearth Quill's humour, which subsequently makes the film more humorous than possibly intended. The whole film doesn't just consist of humour of course, there are much more emotional scenes in the film, and yes, there are tear-jerking scenes that will make the most masculine person blubber.
Not just the characters, but mores the non-diegetic and diegetic sound plays an important role. As we know, the soundtrack consists of retro music that Peter's mother gave to him before she dies of cancer, and the tracks consist of many classics that near enough everyone loves and enjoys: The Jackson 5; David Bowie; Fleetwood Mac; Electric Light Orchestra and more. The sound flows rather well with the lighting, consisting of fiery oranges and reds which then contrast with the electric blues, dark purples and space black. All of these elements work in harmony, thus creating multiple evenly flowing sequences which sometimes juxtaposes with the characters, but more in a good way.
Concluding from this, the only main issue I really have with the film is that some of it doesn't correlate with the comics, and the main disequilibrium dragged out longer than it should, but of course that is a subjective opinion and me being picky. Other than those two issues, there were no real flaws to this film, and being a sequel, that's impressive. So all we have to think now is can the next film be as good as the first two? I think we can all agree that we have very high expectations for the third film now.
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