Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Theatrical)

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Movie is great, NEVER buying Amazon Digital again

April 7, 2018

I love the movie but didn't realise when you drop $15 on a digital copy you don't get to store it on your pc and download it. This would be a non-issue if Amazon's streaming service wasn't complete garbage. Also means, if they take the movie off the server, you don't have it anymore. Great. Good movie, I connected more to it than the first. Loved rocket (have a thing for raccoons) and the way they fleshed him out more. Better movie overall than the first and another rare Marvel movie that does more than the others and stands out from the formula just enough to make you notice. Not as ambitious as Ragnarok, but more personally relatable.

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Aviator Mario

Enjoyable but a bit less fun than Vol. 1

January 17, 2018

Somewhat less fun than the first one, doesn't quite live up to high expectations. Solid performances by the main cast. Michael Rooker as Yondu steals every scene he's in with his usual intensity. Kurt Russell is a blast as always. The script and plot were a letdown compared to Vol. 1. Excellent effects as always. Soundtrack didn't disappoint.

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Alex Beyer

Movie is great, NEVER buying Amazon Digital again

April 7, 2018

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Better with supporting cast breaking out.

September 1, 2017

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Unlike most sequels, this is better than the original. The main characters have grown into their parts, but the best part is how supporting characters add texture, humor, and interest to the whole. The best parts are Yondu, Rocket, and Baby Groot.

I resisted watching the original movie for a long time, not so with Vol 2. Don't wait. See it often and make sure you have a copy to stream. It never gets old, just keeps getting better with each re-watch.

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R. Jimenez

Movie was great follow-up to part 1

November 22, 2017

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Movie was great follow-up to part 1. I felt like it was a little too mushy in relation to the "Star-Lord finding his long lost father". It was a good build up and reveal. But I felt like that took up more time than it should have. I get that they make movies to appeal to a broader spectrum of people aside from the Marvel crowd so they beefed it up in that aspect. But it was more obvious in this movie, especially with the extra Drax comedy relief moments. The scenery was amazing, character development was great, only real complaint was Rocket going backwards in a sense of achievement and attitude. They just made him sort of a jerk in the movie and his solitary action created a big ordeal. Overall still wouldn't kick this movie out of my collection by any means as is still has great replay value. I hope part 3 brings it all together and really makes this series the gold standard for action/comic book movies.

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A good attempt to mix comedy and drama

May 25, 2018

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It is difficult to strike just the right balance between comedy and drama in the same film; so difficult that most writers and directors don't even attempt it.
"Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2" comes very close to striking that balance but falls a little bit short.
The plot is convoluted - which is not necessarily a bad thing - so there is room for both humor and pathos in the body of this movie. There is also plenty of action to bridge the gaps between those parts of the film that are aimed at making us laugh and those scenes that are designed to give us a lump in our throats.
I'm not going to go into great detail about the plot because that could spoil the film for those that have not yet seen it, but I will say that Peter Quill and his misfit crew are just trying to make a living doing jobs for various planets as they flit about the galaxy. They battle an inter-dimensional space monster on one of those jobs and then get into trouble with the leader of that planet... so much trouble that she sends a fleet of spaceships after Quill and Co. The result: More trouble as Quill's former Ravager companions set out to find him in exchange for a huge reward.
In addition, Quill finally connects with his missing father - a man (?) he never knew.
That doesn't go quite as well as either of them might have hoped, however.
The special effects are on a par with other Marvel films, which is to say they are spectacular. The ensemble cast, headed by Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana is excellent and the direction is pretty smooth given the complex script.
Where the film falls short, in my opinion, is that it tries to cram too many pieces of candy into the jar. As a result, it's easy to get distracted as you watch the Guardians fight to not only save the galaxy but stay alive in the process.
For that reason, I give this film 4.5 stars instead of 5.

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Aviator Mario

Enjoyable but a bit less fun than Vol. 1

January 17, 2018

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James A Brown III

Love these movies and so glad they have turned out ...

August 15, 2017

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I think what makes the Guardians movies work so well (love that Guardians is now plural) is summed up by one scene. It contains the line "I'm Mary Poppins y'all!" Seriously, that one scene is why it works so well.

Love these movies and so glad they have turned out even better than that 2nd trailer that had 'Spirit In The Sky' in it way back.

To tell the truth, I was wasn't worried at all about Vol. 2. It's as fun and serious and deep and silly and teary as I'd hoped. Kudos to all involved!

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ORION

I'M MARY POPPINS Y'ALL !

August 12, 2017

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Even though the first movie was awesome, I'd have to say Vol. 2 was better. The music was definitely better in Vol. 1, though.

Yondu stole the scene with that line, "I'm Mary Poppins y'all!" Hilarious!

Plenty of action, great comedic scenes, and some good character development. Story was interesting as well.

I see critical reviews about the story being "light", "boring", "okish". It reminds me of my friend who felt the same thing about Star Wars. Or, how executives at FOX decided to cancel "Firefly".. These people don't connect emotionally to the movie "experience". They're more like "thought entities", deconstructing and appreciating it, on how it agrees with their thoughts.

Interestingly enough, the story kind of delves into that. On whether existence is better with "meaning" and "purpose", or better experienced with "heart".

It's that line from "Jerry Maguire", from Dicky Fox, "If this is empty (heart), this (head) doesn't matter."

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I loved how they filled in many of the questions from ...

August 24, 2017

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NON-SPOILER I never got the chance to see it in the theatres, so I basically made a personal event out of it for my home viewing. I loved how they filled in many of the questions from the first movie. It continued the cleaver dialogue. What I liked most is how they continued to make the music soundtrack a character in the movie just as they did in the first. I love the idea how it is not something playing in the backround for the audience but playing for the actual characters. I felt the story was complete, and might even be better than the story for the first movie. I don't feel it was as fun as the first movie, but that could also just be based on the fact the first movie was opening a whole new world to me, and this was like going on vacation to place I had already been before, but still loved going there. Obviously they will make a volume 3 in the franchise. But if they chose not to, this was a nice way to complete the story.

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Eclectic Galaxie

They are called harbulary batteries

May 5, 2018

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

Guardians 2 starts right off with fun, and never a dull moment from then on. 19 MCU films now and this is on my top 5, and I think it's actually better than Guardians 1, which was fabulous. Michael Rooker's Yondu I liked from the beginning, I like him even more in this one. He may be a blue skinned alien pirate, but - don't we all know somebody just like him? Kurt Russell gets a turn playing god, in scenes reminiscent of Star Trek V but this movie is ten times better.

The choice to score the Guardians films with 1970s pop music is in stark contrast to the hard core action film scores of the other Marvels, and just adds to the fun.

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P. Piedra

Another 5 star Marvel

March 30, 2018

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A great sequel to an awesome movie. Personally I thought the first one was a little better (I always like the character development in movies like this). But this was a great follow up to the original Guardians and still deserves 5 stars. I'm a huge Sci-Fi and Super Hero movie fan, but my wife not so much. But some how I got her to go see this in the theater and she just loved it. Liked it so much, she asked for it for her birthday. It's funny, action packed and full of great special effects. She also can't get enough of baby Groot. We watched it with a friend of ours who has no desire for this type of move, but when it was over she said "that was great, now I have to see the first one". If you like Sci-Fi, Super Heroes or just any type of action movie, this is for you!

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