Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
GOTG is like The Hangover.
Part one was an original take on a fairly straight forward idea. The characters were the strength and you could have a whole movie of them interacting and it would be entertaining.

Part 2 was a remake of the original except The Hangover did it on purpose.

GOTG2 seemed to lack that self awareness.
Now having watched it, I have to disagree. I thought GotG2 was self-aware enough. Heaps of references, in-jokes and pisstakes about the first one in there.

It won't live in my memory like the first one did, but I thought it was fine for a watch. I feel like you're being pretty harsh on it. It's a pretty stock standard sequel imo.