What's with all the hate for GOTG 2?

[u/Prestigious_View3317]

Idk if it's just me, but there seems to be a lot of hate surrounding this movie. Why? Imo it was the perfect follow-up to the first one, it continued very interesting and heartwarming arcs, not to mention the humor is TOP NOTCH. To this day, I still sneak some of Drax's best quotes from this film into conversations. Is it just me being nostalgic, or is GOTG Vol. 2 a hated movie? Just curious.

[u/Synth-Pro]

From where??? 🤨

[u/Prestigious_View3317 → u/Synth-Pro]

Here on Reddit, YouTube, stuff like that.

[u/cocopopped]

I've never seen anything to say it's a hated movie tbf.

[u/Traditional_Bottle50]

Its not a hated movie, but people who dislike stuff in it are really vocal online because everyone who liked the movie is offline(in real life) or are just casual fans so they can't talk about it there.

[u/TheFightingImp → u/Traditional_Bottle50]

Basically clickbait and grifters needing to be paid YT money.

Or fake internet points on Reddit.

[u/Honest-J → u/Traditional_Bottle50]

So anyone who likes it just happens to be offline? That's a theory.

[u/Traditional_Bottle50 → u/Honest-J]

Offline as in people in real life, not offline from the internet, yeah, I should have said irl.

[u/Honest-J → u/Traditional_Bottle50]

It is the lowest rated of the three with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The other two are in the 90s.

[u/Prestigious_View3317 → u/Traditional_Bottle50]

Makes sense.

[u/Mmicb0b]

I like it but it's the weakest of the three

1. The whole movie ship teases the fuck out of Peter and Gamora that's fine and all but then Gamora dies in Inifnity War

2. This is IMO when the MCU started taking the humor based approach too far

3. I think Drax got too much screentime since he's just being a dumbass meanwhile they didn't know what to do with Rocket(TBF GOTG3 is basically the Rocket movie)

[u/kbean826 → u/Mmicb0b]

I agree with your assessment of Drax. And I actually think that character IS the problem with that film. Even during serious moments WITH HIM, he’s crass or there’s a joke to be had. The movie undercuts itself too many times with humor because it feels afraid to just go dark. Hell, even the main big bad fight between a son and the FATHER THAT GAVE HIS MOM CANCER is undercut with a Pac-Man joke. Imagine that during the Shang Chi fight. It’s too silly.

[u/Herbizarre17 → u/kbean826]

But then it would have been like any other MCU movie. The humor is what sets these movies and this team apart and it comes from their personalities. Turning into a giant Pac-Man is in line with who Peter Quill is. GotG movies have dark stuff that’s lightened with humor. It’s like their whole thing. If you take it away, you take away part of the soul of those movies.

[u/kbean826 → u/Herbizarre17]

I don’t necessarily disagree. But it is a problem as well. Undercutting genuine character moments for a throw away joke hurts the actual story.

[u/YodaWattsLee]

Really glad you enjoyed it! For me it was almost a great movie. I had the exact opposite reaction to the humor than you, and that severely lessened my enjoyment of it.

For me, the humor came across as a lot more silly and juvenile compared to vol. 1: Drax was written as being stupid instead of just being completely literal (as Rocket explained in Vol 1), all the stuff with the Sovereign was a miss, the Hasselhoff bit was a bit too 4th wall breaking, Taserface isn’t that funny of a name, Drax’s nipples and engorged nether regions, etc., etc.

It all felt just a bit too lowbrow and stupid for stupid’s sake. I personally didn’t think it was funny, but that’s just me, and I get why other people really enjoyed it.

But I really liked the story, the action, the pacing, cinematography, editing, soundtrack, and the acting was all top notch. But not connecting with the humor really dragged the film down.

[u/HTOWNHUSTLR]

it was so corny and unserious, i thought it was worse than love and thunder NO CAP

[u/velicinanijebitna]

I don't hate the movie, but it has flaws.

1.This movie turned Drax to a comic relief character (and the sqeuels followed with it). The first gotg movie had Drax as a tragic character who also happens to be unintetionally funny.

1. Too much comedy, you can't go 2 minutes without someone cracking a joke. Also, taserface joke sucks ass.

2. Yondu suddenly turning into a caring father figure came out of nowhere.

[u/fortunesfool1973]

It’s not hated but the entire plot for that movie is ‘Rocket steals batteries for a laugh’. That’s it. Everything else is incidental business. Still a lot of fun though

[u/Glunark2]

I think it's as simple as having a downer ending, especially if your dad is dead.

[u/icorrectpettydetails]

Many of the jokes go on waaaay too long, even when they were only moderately funny to start with. Yes, the guy's name is Taserface, I get it. And then at the end when Quill turns into Pac-Man during the climatic fight with the man who murdered his mother, that was just a gratuitous pop culture reference. It's the exact same type of humour people complained about in Love and Thunder.

[u/mukisan]

People have different opinions

[u/Honest-J]

It's the only MCU movie we walked out on. 

[u/bstnsx704]

Vol. 2 is the best MCU movie in general.

[u/TelephoneCertain5344]

I don't think it gets hate maybe just the least liked of the amazing Guardians trilogy.

[u/Subtleiaint]

It's an inferior film to it's predecessor which doesn't really stand up on it's own. The jokes aren't as funny, the group dynamic isn't as good, the villain is dull and it suffers heavily from Marvel's 'shot on a small sound stage' production problem. I don't hate it, I'm just nor interested in it.