Set to the backdrop of "Awesome Mixtape #2," the Guardians of the Galaxy continue their team's adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage. When a celestial being named Ego reveals himself to be Quill's father, the team discovers that the universe's most ancient secrets are far more dangerous than they could have imagined.
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Language |
English |
Country |
United States |
Premiere date |
May 5, 2017 |
Running time |
136 minutes |
Genre |
Action Adventure Sci-Fi Comedy |
Budget |
$200,000,000 |
Box Office |
$863,756,051 |
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Directed by |
James Gunn |
Produced by |
Kevin Feige |
Written by |
James Gunn |
Music by |
Tyler Bates |
Cinematography |
Henry Braham |
Edited by |
Fred Raskin Craig Wood |
Production Co. |
Marvel Studios |
Distributed by |
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
Top Cast |
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Official Trailer |
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Movie Collection |
Movie Order: #02 in Guardians of the Galaxy Collection
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The Plot
Love in Missouri and the Sovereign Job
In 1980, Meredith Quill is courted by a cosmic visitor named Ego. Beside a river in the woods of Missouri, Ego shows her a glowing, alien seedling that he has planted in the soil, sharing his fascination with the universe with her. Thirty-four years later, the Guardians of the Galaxy—Peter Quill (Star-Lord), Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket, and Baby Groot—have established themselves as renowned heroes following their defeat of Ronan the Accuser. They accept a commission from the Sovereign, a genetically perfect and haughty race led by the Golden High Priestess Ayesha.
The job is to defend a cache of valuable Anulax Batteries from an inter-dimensional monster known as an Abilisk. In exchange for their services, the Sovereign hand over Nebula, Gamora's estranged sister whom they had captured following the Battle of Xandar. After a chaotic battle in which the Guardians successfully defeat the beast, they prepare to leave. However, before departing, Rocket secretly steals several of the Anulax Batteries for himself. When the Sovereign discover the theft, they launch their fleet of remote-piloted Omnicrafts to attack the Guardians' ship, the Milano.
The Crash and the Celestial Savior
The Milano sustains heavy damage as the Sovereign fleet swarms them, forcing the Guardians into a desperate escape through a quantum asteroid field. Despite their piloting efforts, they are cornered and forced to crash-land on a nearby forest planet named Berhert. Just as the Sovereign fleet closes in for the kill, a mysterious vessel appears and single-handedly destroys the entire armada with ease. From the ship emerges a man who introduces himself as Ego, accompanied by his empathic assistant, Mantis. To Peter Quill's shock, Ego reveals himself to be his biological father.
Ego invites Quill to return to his home planet to learn about his heritage. After some deliberation, Quill agrees to go, accompanied by Gamora and Drax. Meanwhile, Rocket and Groot stay behind to repair the wrecked Milano and guard their prisoner, Nebula. As the two groups separate, Drax begins to bond with the socially awkward Mantis, sensing she holds a secret she is hesitant to reveal.
Mutiny Among the Ravagers
Seeking revenge for the theft, Ayesha hires Yondu Udonta to recapture the Guardians. Yondu, who has been exiled from the greater Ravager community by Stakar Ogord for breaking the code and trafficking children, accepts the job to restore his reputation. Udonta’s crew tracks the Guardians to Berhert and ambushes the campsite. They successfully capture Rocket and Groot, but when Yondu shows reluctance to turn Quill over to the Sovereign—preferring to just take the batteries—his lieutenant Taserface seizes the opportunity to lead a mutiny.
Nebula, having tricked Groot into freeing her during the chaos, aids Taserface in the coup. Taserface executes the loyalists among the crew and imprisons Rocket and Yondu aboard their main ship, the Eclector. Nebula claims a ship for herself and departs, intent on tracking down and killing Gamora, blaming her sister for the years of torture and cybernetic enhancements inflicted upon her by their father, Thanos. On the Eclector, Taserface brutally mocks his prisoners and turns Baby Groot into a humiliated mascot for the crew's amusement.
The Living Planet
Quill, Gamora, and Drax arrive at Ego’s home, a paradise-like world that is, in reality, a living planet and an extension of Ego's own consciousness. Ego explains that he is a Celestial, a god-like cosmic being who created a human avatar to travel the galaxy and experience life among other species. He teaches Quill that he, too, possesses Celestial genes, demonstrating how Quill can access and manipulate the energy within the planet to create matter. While Quill is seduced by the prospect of an eternal bond with his father, Gamora remains suspicious of the planet's idyllic nature.
Back on the Eclector, Rocket and Yondu bond over their shared history of being outcasts. Yondu reveals that he and Rocket are very alike—arrogant and pushing people away to avoid getting hurt. He also shares his low opinion of Ego, revealing that Ego was the one who originally hired the Ravagers to traffic children, including Quill, after Meredith's death. Yondu admits he kept Quill not to enslave him, but to keep him safe from Ego's dark intentions. With the help of Kraglin Obfonteri, a Ravager still loyal to Yondu, and Groot, who retrieves Yondu's prototype Yaka Arrow controller, they stage a violent escape. Yondu decimates the mutineers with his arrow, destroying the ship's control deck. Before the Eclector explodes, Taserface manages to send the coordinates of Ego's planet to the Sovereign.
The Expansion
Nebula arrives at Ego’s planet and immediately attacks Gamora. After a fierce skirmish and a crash landing, the sisters reach an uneasy truce. Together, they explore the caverns beneath the planet's surface and discover a horrifying truth: hundreds of skeletal remains of Ego’s other children. Meanwhile, Ego reveals his master plan, "The Expansion," to Quill. Disappointed by the life-forms he encountered across the universe, Ego planted seedlings on thousands of worlds to terraform them into extensions of himself. However, he needed the power of a second Celestial to activate them.
Ego admits he fathered children with hundreds of women across the galaxy and hired Yondu to bring them to him. Every previous child failed to harness the Celestial power and was killed. Quill, however, is the success he has been waiting for. Ego begins to siphon Quill's power to activate the seedlings, which begin consuming worlds across the galaxy. Quill is initially hypnotized by the cosmic power until Ego casually reveals that he deliberately put the tumor in Meredith Quill's head to kill her, as his love for her was a distraction from his purpose. Enraged, Quill snaps out of the trance and attacks his father.
Battle for the Core
Mantis, unable to hold the secret any longer, informs Drax, Gamora, and Nebula of Ego’s plan. The group reunites with Rocket, Groot, Yondu, and Kraglin, who arrive just in time to save them from Ego’s initial onslaught. A massive fleet of Sovereign drones, alerted by Taserface, arrives and attacks the Guardians, complicating the battle. The team fights their way through the drone fleet and the living matter of the planet itself, drilling toward the planet's core where Ego's brain is housed.
While Rocket, Yondu, and the others hold off the Sovereign fleet, Groot is given a bomb made from the stolen Anulax Batteries. Because of his size, only Groot can fit through the crevices to reach the brain. Rocket instructs him on which button to press, and Groot successfully plants the explosive on Ego's brain. On the surface, Ego’s avatar reforms and pins the Guardians down. Quill uses his newfound Celestial connection to battle his father avatar-to-avatar, occupying Ego long enough for the timer on the bomb to count down.
A Father's Sacrifice
The bomb explodes, destroying Ego’s brain. With the source of his power gone, the planet begins to crumble and implode, and the terraforming seedlings across the galaxy go dormant. Ego’s avatar disintegrates, and Quill loses his god-like powers. As the ground collapses beneath them, Yondu uses his flight thrusters to rescue Quill from the destruction. He flies them into orbit but only has one holographic spacesuit and breathing device. Realizing he cannot save them both, Yondu straps the device onto Quill, sacrificing his own life to the vacuum of space. As he freezes, Yondu tells Quill, "He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy."
Funeral and The Colors of Ogord
In the aftermath, Nebula reconciles with Gamora but declines the offer to stay with the Guardians, choosing instead to leave and kill Thanos. The Guardians hold a funeral for Yondu, cremating his body and releasing his ashes into the cosmos. Suddenly, dozens of Ravager ships emerge from jump space. Rocket had sent word of Yondu's sacrifice to the other factions. To honor his redemption and heroics, the Ravagers, led by Stakar Ogord, perform a traditional funeral salute, firing fireworks and lasers into space as the Guardians watch in tears. Quill accepts Yondu as his true father figure.
Cosmic Aftermath
In a series of scenes following the event, the galaxy continues to turn. Kraglin Obfonteri takes up Yondu's Yaka Arrow and controller, attempting to master the weapon, though he accidentally impales Drax in the shoulder during practice. Elsewhere, Stakar Ogord, moved by Yondu's death, reunites with his former teammates—Martinex, Charlie-27, Aleta Ogord, Mainframe, and Krugarr—proposing they work together again. On the Sovereign homeworld, a disgraced Ayesha faces judgment for wasting resources but reveals a new creation: a superior artificial birth pod containing a being she names "Adam," designed to destroy the Guardians.
Years later, Groot has grown into a teenage size and exhibits typical adolescent behavior, ignoring Quill to play video games in a messy room, much to Quill's annoyance. Finally, on a distant asteroid, the Watcher Informant is seen recounting his experiences on Earth to a group of Watchers, who eventually grow bored and walk away, leaving him stranded and asking for a ride home.
