Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) | FIRST TIME WATCHING! | Movie Reaction 

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You know the ironic (and awful) part about Ego's relationship with Meredith? I think Peter only managed to have celestial powers because Ego actually had genuine feelings for her, but he never understood that and thought she would get in the way of his "life's purpose".

The one line that still hits me in the feels is “He may have been your father, boy. But he wasn’t your daddy. I’m sorry I didn’t do none of it right. I’m damn lucky you’re my boy.”

Emme you gotta understand Drax and Gamora aren’t humans they’re aliens with much greater physical strength and durability. That’s why they could survive violently slamming through trees, or lifting a giant machine gun from a ship.

Kraglins reaction to Yondu getting his ravagers funeral always gets me.

Stan Lee at the end of this movie just gives me such a happy feeling. “Hey guys wait I got so many stories to tell!” You sure did Stan, and we love the stories you told us. Rest in peace you wonderful man.

The final shot of the movie is Rocket crying because he realizes that he has people that love and accept him even when he himself doesn’t feel worthy of it. Perfect ending

"Spacesuits for emergencies or for fun". Still gets me every time :D

The 3rd Guardians came out recently and it is probably my favourite MCU movie. It definitely is the most emotional

Is it a crime that I am the only one who likes this movie more than the first Guardians movie?

He lost both of his dad's one he had to kill and one who died for him thats two different kinds of grief right there he's also mourning his mother's death all over again because he learned she didn't just die of cancer she was murdered. I think it shows just how much yondu loved peter that even as he was dying the last thing he did was comfort peter. I can't help but cry at his whole funeral scene especially when kraglin realizes that the other ravagers showed up😭😭

Rocket roasting the hell out of Taserface will never get old.

Fleetwood Mac's The Chain coming in during the final confrontation is still one of the best needle drop moments in the entire MCU.

Before I watched this movie, I never would have guessed “I’m Mary Poppins y’all” could choke me up. I got to tell you I identify with Drax more than any other character. I too just say what’s on my mind and frequently offend everyone around me. When she was little, I don’t think a week went by when I didn’t say something that made my daughter cry (completely unintentional). Fortunately, she was (and is) such a daddy’s girl that we still have a close relationship even in her teen years.

The Ravager group at the end were the pretty much the original guardians from the Marvel comics. Love this film, great reaction.

26:31 the Deja Vu in this edit is strong...

Vol. 3 was one of the best Movies I watched in a long time. I hope you can dodge all Spoilers. And this wont spoil the expectation you have. Spoilers ahead for those who watched them ! Yondu makes me cry, fly it with your hearth

You are NOT, in fact, caught up on Guardians, for there is the Guardians Holiday Special in phase 4, which is basically Guardians 2.5. And it's SOOOO good. So: Something to look forward to.

One of my favorite scenes is rocket, groot, and Peter. Flying together into the forever sky.

This movie made Yondu my favorite MCU character and so far no one beats him! this movie has so much heart, It's got some middle movie syndrome now but it's just really enjoyable to watch every time.

I have heard some strange villain names like Purple Man, Condiment King, Absorbing Man, but Taserface is somewhere in the top 5. Still cracks me up every time Rocket pokes fun at the name and when that lady laughs at him as well.

I could see Emme as Mantis. Emme and Mantis both a very sweet and quiet personality type.

When Rocket said "I can only afford to lose one friend today" he was talking about Yondu. 😢

Yandu’s death is a tear jerker every time.

I can SO not wait for you to see Vol. 3. That’s going to be a HUGE moment for you and your viewers

This movie hits pretty hard. It still makes me tear up everytime at the end.

The songthat played during Yondu's funeral is called "Father and Son" by Kat Steven's I played it for my grandfather for his funeral He was my Yondu

David hasselhof was in a show called knight rider. A very good show

The ravager captains gathered at the end along with Yandu were the original comic book lineup of Guardians of the Galaxy

the first guardians movie was the first mcu movie i ever watched, back in elementary school -- yesterday, i watched the third one in theaters and sobbed my eyes out. i'm so excited to continue to follow you on your mcu journey!!

Yondu's death with the ravager funeral and cat Stevens playing still to this day crushes me. Sloppy crying mess every time. Rest in peace Yondu 💙

Can't wait for Vol. 3 when you get to it eventually!

Yeah, losing Ego was no loss. Finding out Yondu has been hiding the fact that he considers Peter his son from his entire crew (and maybe even himself) for decades, that hits you right in the feels

0:27 there is a guardians of the galaxy holiday special and gotg 3 just came out lol. Plus there is an "i am groot" mini series like what tales of the jedi was, forgettable but you will love it. And at 17:06 he said he is a celestial, which is the species that The Collector in gotg 1 showed us, that giant being with a staff who destroyed a planet with the power/purple infinity stone. And "Knowhere", the place where The Collector was which is a giant skull is a severed head of a celestial. Ego is the only celestial who is like this, who can be a living planet, and who can have a small human body.

Oh Yondu's boss, Stakar, the head of the ravengers is played by legendary actor Sylvester Stallone!!! That's why you may recognize him. He's played Rocky, Rambo and many other great roles in movies

I rewatched this movie a couple weeks ago in preparation for Vol. 3, and liked it way more than I did before. It also kinda forced me down a Fleetwood Mac rabbit hole lol.

“Goofy or serious?” To quote from the last movie’s end ‘a bit of both.”

One fascinating thought I just had about Groot is that in the first movie, he was like the moral compass/protector/caretaker of the group. He was the glue that helped keep them together. Every time they wanted to turn on one another, Groot was there to mediate. Now Groot is young again and still the glue but in another way. Now the group is working together to take care of and raise Groot. It's possible that subconsciously, Groot is a strong reason of why they refuse to split no matter what.

Fun fact: Stakaar, Yondu and the rest of the captains that appear in the post-credits scenes, in the comics they are the original guardians of the galaxy, one of them being the descendant of captain America.

Considering what Drax does/says in volume 3, I believe that "Harbulary" is the correct way to say the name of those batteries.

i'm mary poppins y'all

Never listen to Drax for lady advice lmao 😂 but the baby Groot omg 😱 I loved him and the part where mantis revealed quils darkest secret was funny 🤣

Cmon, she cut out the scene of Mantis touching Drax and immediately bursting into tears? That's the best one in the whole trilogy...

20:18 this line makes it really clear why Peter never went back to Earth. He’s had access to spaceships pretty much this whole time. He could’ve easily gone back at any point, it’s not like he was lost or anything. But because of that trauma of seeing his mom die right in front of him, he just couldn’t go back.

I don't know how long ago Emme recorded this, but Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 is currently in theaters, but you will indeed see more of them before you get to that movie.

I can't wait until you watch the holiday special. You're gonna love it

A Dairy Queen opened in Goose Creek, SC, just a few years ago.

I may be a bit late for this post but I’m glad your finally watching this, personally one of my favorite MCU films, perfect timing since the third movie recently came out too.

My mom is obsessed with this movie and watches it like a couple times a month 😭

Am I the only one who thinks sean gunn is highly underrated, both in the mcu and specially in hollywood as a whole? As any other human with feelings, yondu's funeral leaves me in tears, and I'm quite good at holding them down for a while, but it's always his reaction when he sees the rest of the ravangers that finally breaks me. I'm not an actor, but I'd think conveying both sadness and happiness at once with a single yell, without any words at all... I don't think that's just "I got this job because my brother is the director". Of course that's why he got the job. As I said, I think he's being overlooked by hollywood, but I don't think james gunn is doing him a favor by casting him as much as he's doing US a favor by showing us what he can do. Anyway... I believe what makes the guardians movies great is james gunn's heart, and I think the actor that most conveys the gunn heart is, not surprisingly, the other gunn.

Hey, Emme! Slapstick and sentiment are what this franchise is about! Much like Vol. 1, "Guardians Vol. 2" was an acquired taste for me since the characters differ so radically from the '90s Valentino era and lack the nuance of the '00s Abnett/Lanning era. I take science fiction very seriously. Its deeper themes and allegorical references resonate deeply with me making it a challenge to immerse myself in these goofy antics. The plot centers on the mystery of Quill's parentage revealing that he is half-Celestial whereas he is half-Spartoi in the comics, a prince of one of Marvel's staple interstellar civilizations. In spite of changes such as that, these movies, much like the team, prevail against all odds delivering endings that pack an emotional wallop! James Gunn earns my admiration each time for pushing the boundaries, diving deep and bringing impossible characters like Ego to vivid life! It takes a wildly creative sensibility and a deep affection for this mythology to get this many disparate parts to mesh properly and Gunn has both in spades. I cannot wait to see what he does with that tease for Adam Warlock. The production has an incredibly varied aesthetic that is a feast for the eyes including the golden realm of the Sovereign, the neon-lit tundra of Contraxia, the misty forested world of Berhert, and the lush splendor of Planet Ego. Traditionally a Thor villain, Ego the Living Planet is difficult to comprehend and challenging to render so I give Gunn tremendous credit for reducing him to a relatable stature while retaining his planet-with-a-face appearance. He does get an upgrade to Celestial status but he is his own entity in the comics. The Celestials are titanic armored space gods with Knowhere station being one of their severed heads! Despite varying from their comic counterparts, the returning cast is as game as before including Chris Pratt as Peter Quill aka Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax, Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta, Sean Gunn as Kraglin and Karen Gillan as Nebula. Bautista is a stand-out who continues to mine Drax for impressive comedy gold but Rooker steals the show with Yondu's gut-wrenching death scene! Also returning are a high-pitched Vin Diesel as Baby Groot and Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon who remain the only Guardians adapted faithfully except in one regard. According to Gunn, Baby Groot is the offspring of the original Groot rather than a regrown Groot retaining the same memories as in the comics. New characters are Ego, a sentient world that manifests as a man to pollinate other worlds across the universe with his essence! He is played by Kurt Russell as an expansive, avuncular aging hipster who is digitally de-aged to his 1980 likeness in the prologue. Pom Klementieff charmingly plays his empathic pet Mantis who is given a completely different personality than in the comics although she gets to keep her antennae! Elizabeth Debicki plays golden-skinned Ayesha aka Kismet who is transformed into the haughty High Priestess of a golden-skinned species known as the Sovereign. Sylvester Stallone plays Stakar Ogord aka Starhawk whose complex comic backstory is simplified to that of a respected Ravager Captain. He is accompanied by his First Officer, Martinex, a crystalline Plutonian played by Michael Rosenbaum of "Smallville". Both represent a nod to the Valentino Guardians of the '90s. Chris Sullivan plays the traitorous Ravager Taserface whose unfortunate name is actually an authentic deep dive into the comics! Returning in small roles are Laura Haddock as a pre-cancerous Meredith Quill, Gregg Henry as Grandpa Quill, Wyatt Oleff of "It" as young Peter and Seth Green voicing Howard the Duck seen patronizing a Contraxian brothel! In bit parts, Brit character actor Tommy Flanagan plays Tullk, a Ravager loyal to Yondu, Ben Browder of "Farscape" plays a Sovereign Admiral and Elizabeth Ludlow of "The Walking Dead" plays a distressed alien mother fleeing from Ego-matter. Michelle Yeoh as Aleta the Arcturan and Ving Rhames as Charlie-27 the Jovian appear briefly at the Ravager funeral and in one of the end-credit scenes as another Valentino tribute. TRIVIA: 1. James Gunn wore a motion capture suit and served as the model for Baby Groot's opening dance sequence! 2. Vin Diesel had actual scripted lines written for his eyes only so that he could inflect "I am Groot" appropriately. 3. The idea of a self-aware brain like Ego's spontaneously coming into existence is a philosophic thought problem proposed by physicist Ludwig Boltzmann! 4. In between Guardians films, Nebula stunt double, Olivia Jackson, fractured the left half of her face, suffered a traumatic brain injury and had her left am severed in a motorcycle stunt gone wrong! 5. The Zune was an actual Microsoft digital music player developed in 2006 that was discontinued due to its lack of popularity! EASTER EGGS: 1. When Peter is granted cosmic awareness by Ego, his eyes fill with stars and he says he sees eternity. This is a reference to Eternity, the personification of the universe in Marvel comics, who appears as a silhouetted humanoid whose form is filled with starscapes. 2. The larger replacement head-fin that Yondu wears makes him look more like Centaurians do in the comics. 3. Cosmo the canine cosmonaut and Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster from "Thor: Ragnarok" are seen in the credits themselves frolicking. 4. Among Stakar's reassembled Ravager team in the end-credits is Krugarr, a red, serpentine alien from a species known as Lem. He is a member of the '90s Valentino Guardians and the 31st-century Sorcerer Supreme! 5. Seen listening to Stan Lee are Watchers, a race of observers who monitor all that transpire in the universe but never interfere. Uatu is the Watcher assigned to Earth who observes us from his dwelling on the Moon. 6. According to Gunn, this film occurs just months after the first "Guardians of the Galaxy" meaning it is set chronologically before "Avengers: Age of Ultron". CAMEOS: 1. Ego momentarily transforms into Peter's imaginary concept of his father, David Hasselhoff, who appears as himself! 2. Miley Cyrus voices the disembodied robot head Mainframe in the Valentino tribute end-credit scene. 3. Stan Lee appears in a spacesuit regaling a group of Watchers about all his cameos when Rocket, Groot, Yondu and Kraglin are jumping through space! END-CREDIT SCENES: 1. Kraglin tests his ability to control the repaired yaka arrow but misfires puncturing Drax whereupon Kraglin sneaks away. 2. Sylvester Stallone's Stakar Ogord addresses a reassembled team of Ravagers from different clans who collectively represent the Jim Valentino Guardians of the '90s. They include Michael Rosenbaum's Martinex the Plutonian, Michelle Yeoh's Aleta the Arcturan, Ving Rhames' Charlie-27 the Jovian, a CGI Krugarr the Lem and Miley Cyrus' Mainframe the A.I. who is a character from the tertiary MC2 universe but is nonetheless included. 3. A frustrated, vengeful High Priestess Ayesha monitors a birthing chamber she claims will produce the next step in the Sovereign's evolution calling it 'Adam'. This is a tease for the introduction of Adam Warlock! 4. Quill scolds a now-teen Groot to clean his vine-littered room to which he replies with obnoxious, disrespectful iterations of "I am Groot"! 5. Tired of Stan Lee's prattling, the Watchers wander away leaving the old boy stranded in his spacesuit on the desolate planet. The next chronological stop in the MCU are the "I Am Groot" shorts, 'Groot's Pursuit' and 'Magnum Opus', which occur before the teen Groot end-credit scene. They are followed by Episodes 11-19 of Season 2 of "Agents of SHIELD" but be sure not to miss the "GUARDIANS' INFERNO" music video to see the whole cast out of make-up at a disco with Stan Lee, James Gunn and David Hasselhoff! It is located on the "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" blu-ray, DPlus as an Extra or on RU-vid.

4:50 What, you are a first grade teacher? I had no idea. I always loved the GotG movies because they brought the wildest humor into the MCU and great music, but at the same time had some of the most tear jerking stories and scenes.

"Not the Dairy Queen! Is that why they closed all around me?" 🤣 The one my family always went to when I was a kid got closed too! I _still_ haven't found another place that reliably creates a hamburger as good -- not to mention the freezes/floats/etc. 🍔🙁

AAAAAAAAAAAAA finally! can't wait to see your reactions on GOTG3. I'm already so invested on your MCU reactions

Adam was refering to Adam Warlock. One of the most powerful beings in the comics. Vol 3 does pay that scene off

You mentioned baby Groot and baby Yoda and it reminded me that The ReelRejects just recently put out new merch of those two and I think baby rocket on a shirt.... 🤷‍♂ just fyi

I mean, one cannot be TOO surprised by a Celestial who is literally named Ego for being an over-the-top selfish sonofbeech who has no concern for the harm he causes to others.

Don’t forget the marvel series LEGION, best marvel show. It’s on HULU and FX originally

When Mantis was in frame it was like there were two of you on screen lmao

the third one just came out recently. it's currently in theaters. you haven't seen the guardians of the galaxy holiday special either

Love this series

I watched the first GOTG a couple weeks ago and it was really cool. BUT OMG THIS MOVIE IS BY FAR THEE BEST ❤❤❤... THE LAST 15 MIN HAD ME ON AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER... Baby Groot and Yondu were by far my fav characters and a special third fav was Yondu's arrow. Badass💫🔥💫🔥✌🏽

Third part is out in movie theatres.

The 3rd one just came out, can't wait until you eventually get to it

If you could find the contact lens, I think "Mantis" would be a great Halloween costume for you. I feel like you could probably do a decent impression as well. Your kids would get a kick out of it.

I always forget how good this movie is till I rewatch it!

not sure if you know this but Kraglin is the director of the movie and also Miley Cyrus was in this movie.

Hi Emme, nice to see you doing another movie reaction!🙂You should definitely watch "The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special" (2022) before you watch Vol III. It offers some interesting info going forward.😉Great reactions to your 2nd Guardians film, Emme!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I totally thought you got done for copyright when the sound cut out after 5mins. I kept skipping forward but there was nothing all the way to the end. Then I realised my Bluetooth headphones had randomly connected even though they were in the other room 😂🤦‍♂️

Another great reaction!

The complete Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy is available digitally. it's so great, and the third is my personal favorite

There actually isn't only two of the guardians movies out because the third one came out a couple weeks before you posted this video.

first grade teacher!? thank you for your service!

Kraglin just got mad cause he thought Peter was the favourite son and accidentally got all his frienda killed

Umm... Emme... I hate to break it to you, but as of the time of this video's release (no idea when you recorded it, though with you being four to five weeks ahead on Patreon, that's a good indication you made this before Guardians 3 came out XD)... the third Guardians movie has already come out ^_^;; It came out on May 5th, and I'm really excited to watch it. Still, you _are_ still making good progress in the MCU, so don't lose heart! But yeah, this movie hit like a sack of bricks when it came out... seeing as (even then) I was the step-father to a really awesome kid, who had suffered the misfortune of having... a pretty awful "first dad" (as we called it). Not Ego bad, but still pretty awful of a father. Things may not have gone the smoothest since then, but still. I hope that she's able to find value in the things that I've done for her as a father in the long run. I mean, I didn't have her crawling through vents, or anything like that, so I don't have as much to apologize for as Yondu, but yeah XD Yondu is, hands down, my favorite character in the movie, and I love what he brings to the whole experience. Also, you could legitimately just blitz through all of the I Am Groot shorts on Disney+ now. You are far enough in their story for all of them to be non-spoilers.

"It would make my nether regions engorge..." Drax.

Emme if I can make one spoiler free recommendation, it would be remember those big-headed guys Stan Lee was talking to, one of their race will become an important character down the road, but it will be a long time before you see him so you may want to note it. And technically where you are in your watching you have seen one small crossover between the Guardians and the other Marvel movies... in the first one the Guardians when to the Collector's shop, which first appeared in the second Thor.

I wish that we could post images in the comments. Ego in the comics was a living sentient planet with a face on its surface but he wasn’t a Celestial.It’s interesting the changes they make for the movies, a celestial in the form of a planet that can make extensions of itself

He May Have Been Your Father, Boy, But He Wasn't Your Daddy. I'm Mary Poppins, Y'all!.

Adam, as in Adam Warlock, who you'll see in Guardians 3.

Guardians of the Galaxy part 3 premiere was like 6 weeks ago. :)

This may be my favorite Marvel movie simply by virtue of the fact that LSD was one of the songs on the soundtrack

great as always emme, it was in time to be a nice recap before watching Vol. 3

I was a 40 year old man who cried at the end when Yondu sacrificed himself at the theater.😂

They actually have an old U-Tube post of Baby Groot dancing 🎶 with Baby Yoda. It is adorable 🥲😊

It’s been a few years since I watched this so I have a question. Was there a reason given as to why the bomb even had a button to make it explode immediately? I mean why even have that button on it if the last thing ya want to do is push it?

Emme, I enjoyed your reaction to guardians of the Galaxy volume 3 2 and I love all the music in here, can't wait to see you react to guardians of the Galaxy volume 3 Someday And Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special 🎄

It’s kinda funny that she said that at the beginning while there’s a guardians movie in theaters right now 😂

I haven't watched guardians 3 yet, and I need to, but I think I liked the first two more than the rest of the MCU because of the nearly singular focus on the title characters instead of a focus on how everything fits into the phase. I know the first one had the stone, but it really was character-driven. Also, the tone shifts are really incredible from Gunn. The first opened up so bleakly with the death of Peter's mother, which I remember shocking me and jolting me because of how it was marketed, but then it became lighthearded for nearly the rest of the film. Then, in the second one, it seemed like it was going to be focused on more of the same lighthearded, irreverent tone, but then there was a hammer dropped in the form of the revelation about Ego killing Meredith. That ending was actually quite somber.

"Caught up with Guardians of the Galaxy." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Darth Vader’s story would have been so much better if it was him willingly that changed his human body parts for robot parts, for performance and as a show of disgust or disrespect against humanity. Even here Nebula being punished is so much better than she just having an accident. When I first watched the first Star Wars, based on Obi wan saying; “he is more machine now”, that gave me the impression Vader’s parts were changed over time, therefor it was Vader’s doing. Like, every tine he felt his body placed a limit on his fighting he would replace it.

so it's official, drax reacts it is now

Here we go baby groot!

I was so excited to see this movie because I wanted to know a little bit more about the Guardians especially Peter Quill because I don't have my dad because he molested me when I was little snd when I watch this movie, I cry wishing that I could have a father and son moment.

Girl…there’s 3 of these movies! The 3rd one is in theaters now and I can’t wait for you to see it!

Hope you had a great year teaching your 1 graders, hey have a wonderful teacher!

Glitch in the matrix at 26:42

Now watch the 3rd one. So sad and so good. Also, you have such a nice voice.

The other Ravagers were played by some pretty big names.

this movie is better than i remembered it being.