Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Stream on Disney+

Runtime: 2 Hours 3 Minutes

Rated PG-13

Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and baby Groot return for more mischief. This time around they have angered an entire race of bioengineered people after doing a job for them and then stealing from them. Saved by a strange man with world destroying cosmic power they must stay on the run, but also figure out the mystery behind Ego, the man claiming to be Star-Lord’s father.

Themes:

Family, parents, terminal illness, thieving, sarcasm, heritage, consequences, the Ravagers, family, David Hasselhoff, fatherhood, love, mutiny, celestial beings, god (small g), offspring, beauty, trust, sorrow, loss, death, and having one another’s backs.

Language:

A*s - 7 B*tch - 1 D*mn - 8 D*ck - 2 Hell - 8 Piss - 1 Sh*t - 4 Religious Exclamations - 5

These words are also used: A-hole, douchebag, son of a…, suck, crap, screw, and “fricking, but he didn’t use the word frinkin.”

Stuff to be aware of:

Grossness - A huge alien monster is killed by the Guardians by Gamora slicing it’s body down the front and a ton of gross liquid spills out everywhere. There is a character named Taserface who is an alien, but has a very scared and nasty face.

A humanoid alien squishes and eats a bug. Baby Groot carry’s a severed toe to Yondu and Rocket. There is a cave fill of skeletons. Baby Groot throws up. Ego rebuilds himself and you see organs, flesh, and muscles. Yondu freezes in space and you see him die.

Scary - A huge alien monster fights the Guardians in the first five minutes of the film. It has multiple tentacles and layers of sharp teeth. He is weird and gross looking. Star-Lord gets impaled by energy and light shoots out of his eyes and mouth. During the final battle there is some scary CGI as Ego rebuilds himself and uses his planet to try to kill the Guardians. His face shows up several times made of different things.

Sexual - There is a joke about Drax having sensitive nipples. Star-Lord makes a joke about enjoying making children the old fashion way and someone remarks that they would like to be educated on this. Star-Lord jokes about showing her. Star-Lord is seen shirtless and Drax is always shirtless. There is a planet with prostitute robots. Yondu is in the room with one and he is shirtless and zips his pants up. There are multiple neon signs of girl’s silhouettes.

Drax says it would “make my nether regions engorged.” There is a joke about not flying with what’s between your legs. Mantis mentions that Star-Lord has, “romantic, sexual love. Drax asks Ego if he made himself a penis. Drax then talks about his father telling the story of impregnating his mother. Ego then affirms he has a penis and brags on it. Rocket mentions that scrotum hat would be a better name than Taserface. Gamora is called a sadist. Drax mentions that he is imagining being with someone physically and he fakes throwing up.

When Ego tells his story he shares with Star-Lord that he impregnated multiple female species. There are models that show up showing him kissing different alien species. Star-Lord mentions that someone, “hooks up with hot women.”

Violence - There is plenty of MCU style fighting and violence. I will mention the intense and different things. The alien monster mentioned in the “grossness” section

Rocket says, “I want to kill some guys.” A man gets shot with multiple darts. Multiple Ravagers get electrocuted and you see their skeletons for a second. The Ravagers lock Groot in a cage and scare him and they release a man into space and he freezes. Taserface punches Yondu in the face while he is tied up.

Nebula mentiones that Thanos made her fight her sister and every time she lost he would chop off part of her body and replace it with cybernetic parts. Yondu uses his arrow to kill a ton of people by shooting them through the chest. Some of this is done in slow motion with stuff coming out of the wound. Taserface is seen burning up after an explosion. He is seen burnt up. Gamora is electrocuted for a few seconds.

Other - One character mentions that he has to take a whiz and you see him the upper part of his body, but can here him peeing. One character mentions that he told a story when he was drunk.

Overall:

Seeing It With Your Family

This one has more grossness, sexual jokes, and curse words than most of the MCU movies that came before it. My opinion is this one is even less family friendly than the first one. There is also some scary/freaky CGI used when Ego rebuilds himself and when he dies.

What I Thought

I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first one, but I wrote this article years after this movie came out so it is more to remind parents what is in this movie.