I found myself disliking this movie.
The good was the impressive CGI. But, even here, the characters in the foreground often fail to react to threats presented by the CGI monsters. (They stand there, inertly, as if, you know, standing in front of a green screen). I still enjoyed the artistic side of the CGI.
However, the humans were annoying, especially the weird passive-aggressive villain, who seemed rather pathetic.
When Rocket was out of the story the movie was flat. He was the heart of the show.
The backstory rocket-origin story felt forced. And the tragic nausiating soppiness of it contradicts the happy-go-lucky fun of the first movie.
Even worse, the schtick between Chris Platt and the women fell flat. If he had just been old-school sexist, it could have been really funny, but the producers couldn't bring themselves to be funny, lest they offend snowflakes. Big mistake. And the actresses were no commediennes.
Another problem: no sense of danger or peril was present. Characters survived impossible beatings. There was zero stress.
They should have stuck to being fun. The first movie was fun. This movie was melodrama, and unlikeable characters.
The 2nd movie of the trilogy was somewhere between the great first movie, and this failure of a movie.
Hollywood has forgotten how to make entertaining movies, or refuses to do so, because woke.
The good was the impressive CGI. But, even here, the characters in the foreground often fail to react to threats presented by the CGI monsters. (They stand there, inertly, as if, you know, standing in front of a green screen). I still enjoyed the artistic side of the CGI.
However, the humans were annoying, especially the weird passive-aggressive villain, who seemed rather pathetic.
When Rocket was out of the story the movie was flat. He was the heart of the show.
The backstory rocket-origin story felt forced. And the tragic nausiating soppiness of it contradicts the happy-go-lucky fun of the first movie.
Even worse, the schtick between Chris Platt and the women fell flat. If he had just been old-school sexist, it could have been really funny, but the producers couldn't bring themselves to be funny, lest they offend snowflakes. Big mistake. And the actresses were no commediennes.
Another problem: no sense of danger or peril was present. Characters survived impossible beatings. There was zero stress.
They should have stuck to being fun. The first movie was fun. This movie was melodrama, and unlikeable characters.
The 2nd movie of the trilogy was somewhere between the great first movie, and this failure of a movie.
Hollywood has forgotten how to make entertaining movies, or refuses to do so, because woke.