2, James Gunn shows that “second verse, mostly same as the first” can serve the viewer (and, inevitably, the box office) well, especially when one has most of the Marvel universe to pull from. If only that had been the case for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which brought in the bucks but also showed that there are, indeed, exceptions to the conventional wisdom that “the second film is better.” (Apparently their answer to, “Why was the first film successful?” included, “Because people love to see Johnny Depp balancing on things!”)įortunately, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Even better, both sequels boasted for all intents and purposes the same cast, crew and creative direction, making each that rarer version of a “sure thing” that promises to please both the studio execs and fans alike. ![]() (If Eddie Murphy’s Haunted Mansion had been released a few years earlier instead of concurrently with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, one suspects the past decade’s drunken pirate population at Halloween parties and convention floor cosplay would have been decimated.) As it turned out, both “gambles” paid off, buoyed by charismatic leads, a solid supporting cast and a script that effectively mined the humor in pretty much every scene. ![]() Both initial installments were met with much skepticism-none of the characters in either iteration of Marvel Comics’ Guardians of the Galaxy were household names even among comics lovers, and Disney’s whole “Let’s make movies based on our theme park rides!” approach caused its fair share of eyebrows to be raised. ![]() Going into the second film in this particular cosmic corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise looks a lot like a certain other, non-MCU, Disney franchise- Pirates of the Caribbean.
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