Ummmm...

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2017)

I so wanted to love this film, as I did the first one. I guess then that the danger with having hit the bullseye first time is that you can only go one way... Which is not to say this film is a total "bust". It's not, and with characters that worked so well in the first film it would be hard to make a complete turkey. But here's the thing... it's WAY too long, and there are a LOT of sequences when nothing much happens, or if it does you don't really care. The plot is fairly ridiculous, but then it's a Marvel film so you're not expecting Hitchcock. At times it does moralise a LOT about families and family values and all that, and fair enough families are important, but it gets a bit sappy in parts. The good points are the action sequences, and there are a fair few of them, Rocket has much more screen time this time (a good thing), and Baby Groot is cute. Drax's character though only just about comes off this time, and Quill is a tad wasted in his parts. So is it worth a couple of hours of your time? Well... it would definitely be worth 90 minutes or so, for sure. My cousin and I just thought that over 2 hours stretched things too far. In addition to which if you're wanting to hear "Fox On The Run", which we were, it's not in the film at all, unless you count the end credits, and a long way down in those...