A Good Cliché

Rating: 8/10 (19 May 2017)

The movie begins with a cute dance by baby Groot that has the audience laughing and awwwwing at the same time, a great way to do the into titles and actually sets up the movie rather than being dead space like so many other films. While time has passed since the last movie the main characters seem suddenly much closer to each other than at the end of the last movie, making the audience wonder how that is.
This movie had beautiful visual effects and a plot that kept a pace which had the audience hanging on the edge of their seats. The script had some room for improvement, mainly in the exchanges between Peter and his father. His fathers monologues were cliché at best, and left me wanting more from the writers. An attempt was made to make soundtrack that would equal the one we all loved from the first movie, but they fell short. While it had many good songs on it, it wont be the hit the last one was.
Overall, the movie felt like a story told for character development purposes, but it was a good story nonetheless. Criticisms aside, it was a great film, and left me excited to see the next one.