{"id":21357,"date":"2023-05-27T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21357"},"modified":"2023-05-27T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:00:24","slug":"guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;We&#8217;re really gonna be able to jack up our prices if we&#8217;re two-time galaxy savers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/strong>, released in 2017<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians are working for the Sovereign, protecting their valuable batteries from a giant monster. They manage to defeat the monster, but on the way out Rocket steals some of the batteries. With dozens of Sovereign ships after them, a mysterious stranger rescues them. It turns out that the man is Peter&#8217;s father, who&#8217;s been looking for him. It also turns out that he&#8217;s not a man, he&#8217;s a Celestial &#8212; essentially, a god.<\/p>\n<p>This is a worthy sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2\/\"><strong>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong><\/a>. It&#8217;s hilariously delightful.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to stunning action, it also features beautiful interactions between the characters.<\/p>\n<p>Our old friend Stan Lee has a nice cameo.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, and Elizabeth Debicki. Directed by James Gunn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-holiday-special\/\"><strong>The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special<\/strong><\/a>). The music is by Tyler Bates.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it. My earlier review is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;We&#8217;re really gonna be able to jack up our prices if we&#8217;re two-time galaxy savers.&#8221; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, released in 2017 The Guardians are working for the Sovereign, protecting their valuable batteries from a giant monster. They manage to defeat the monster, but on the way out Rocket steals some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-21357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21361,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357\/revisions\/21361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}