After the surprising success of James Gunn’s first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, Marvel was quick to get a sequel into development for a summer 2017 release. While it wasn’t quite as fresh or exciting as its predecessor, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was funny, action-packed, and heartfelt enough to satisfy fans of the original, and fans of blockbuster cinema in general.
Maintaining the balance of heart, humor, and action from the first movie, Guardians Vol. 2 had plenty of both riveting action set pieces and hilarious gags. However, some were greater than others.
10 Action Sequence: Killing An Interdimensional Monster
In the opening set piece of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the team protects some valuable batteries for the Sovereign in exchange for Nebula’s freedom. The batteries are threatened by an interdimensional monster that they kill to the sounds of ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky.”
Drax jumps into the beast’s mouth to attack it from the inside, thinking it’ll be easier to stab from the inside than the outside, which makes no sense, as Quill and Gamora point out.
9 Gag: “I’m Gonna Make Some Weird S***!”
Upon meeting his biological father, Ego, Quill learns that he has dormant god-like powers from the Celestial half of his DNA that he can tap into.
Ego shows him that if he can grasp the Celestial light within him, he can conjure up anything he can imagine. Quill immediately says, “I’m gonna make some weird sh*t!”
8 Action Sequence: Rocket Fends Off The Ravagers
Rocket plays “Southern Nights” by Glen Campbell to lure the Ravagers to his ship. Then he waits up in the trees for them to arrive. He drops down and takes them out, one by one.
He has gadgets waiting in the woods to incapacitate his attackers, but he only problem is that he didn’t take Yondu’s magical fin into account — or Nebula’s shaky allegiance.
7 Gag: Groot Tries To Bring Yondu His Fin
When Rocket and Yondu are locked in the Ravagers’ prison cell following Taserface’s mutiny, Groot is kept on the outside as a pet. This means that he’s free to bring Yondu’s new fin prototype to him, which they can use to escape.
The only problem is that Groot doesn’t know what the fin looks like. He brings over a prosthetic eye, a severed toe, and a desk before he gets the right thing.
6 Action Sequence: Rocket, Yondu, And Groot Escape From The Ravagers
After Groot finally manages to bring Yondu his fin, he and Rocket escape from their cell and start making their way through the ship, gleefully massacring all the guys who locked them in there.
All the Ravagers come after them and they kill every single one. Groot even manages to exact brutal revenge upon the guy that was bullying him for his friends’ amusement earlier in the night.
5 Gag: David Hasselhoff
When Quill was a kid, he told his friends at school that his dad was David Hasselhoff, and that he was never around because he was busy shooting episodes of Knight Rider and touring with his band.
Eventually, he found out that his dad was a genocidal living planet. While he’s yelling at Quill after revealing his true colors, Ego takes on the form of David Hasselhoff to spite his son.
4 Action Sequence: Gamora Vs. Nebula
In the first Guardians movie, Nebula was a straight villain who spent the whole movie trying to kill Gamora, her sister, for the sole purpose of proving to Thanos she could do it.
In Vol. 2, this rivalry continued, but it came to an end. Nebula tracks down Gamora and engages her in intense combat in the catacombs of Ego’s planet. The fight plays like an explosive, CGI-laden symbolization of arguments that real sisters have.
3 Gag: Groot Can’t Figure Out Which Button To Press
In the final battle of Guardians Vol. 2, the team needs to get a bomb down to Ego’s core to blow him up. But the only one small enough to get there is little Baby Groot, and he can’t grasp how to use the detonator.
Rocket tries to explain to him which button to press, to give him time to escape, and which one not to press, because it’ll detonate the bomb immediately. But Groot keeps going for the immediate detonation button.
2 Action Sequence: Quill Vs. Ego
The opening bars of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” are perfectly timed with Quill tapping into his Celestial powers to use them to destroy his father. He simply tells Ego, “You shouldn’t have killed my mom and squished my Walkman!”
Then, Quill starts bashing him with rocks, even turning into a living Pac-Man, until he overpowers him, putting an end to his evil reign — and his own godly abilities in the process.
1 Gag: Zune
After Ego destroyed Quill’s Walkman, he’s left without music. Fortunately, during one of his trips to Earth, Kraglin picked up a new way for Quill to listen to music: a Zune.
He claims that everyone on Earth listens to music on a Zune, despite the fact that Microsoft’s attempt to emulate the iPod went over like a lead balloon.
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