Excellent film!

Rating: 10/10 (4 May 2017)

I don't particularly like Marvel films generally – they all appear the same, with by-the-numbers, easily forgettable plots. However, Guardians 2 is different, like the first film was.
My favourite things about the film are:
 The characterizations. Rocket (he's very well done and even more expressive than he was in Guardians 1) and Baby Groot. All the characters are pretty good, especially the two leads, and Drax comes into his own more in Guardians 2 than he did in the first film. Yondu did very well here, too. I like the mixture of fun and emotion, including sadness.
 The visuals. The colours and the depictions of environments and outer space.
 The plot, especially due to great characterization.
Making a film that equalled the first one was a difficult thing to pull off, and I think the director did a great job.
I hope the Guardians stay as a unit and are not sucked into the rest of the Marvel 'universe'. They are different and much more quirky than the characters in the other films. Trying to integrate them with the other films would be a mistake, in my view, and would be a turn-off (for me, anyway).