If anything, Guardians of The Galaxy teaches us that we can be family without looking like each other, and sometimes family can be more lethal than the people you rely on daily. The story picks up as the guardians are getting ready to fight a big slug on some flat disk out in open space. By now the team works as one unit, firing and taking their turns at the big bad guy. They are in the process of taking out this evil thing for pay, so their work is not so much of valor as it is of financial compensation. Rocket finds it funny to steal some of their energy cells (batteries) and after they are compensated by a group that thinks way too highly of itself, they are chased and hunted down.
The group is tentatively saved by Star-Lord's father, Ego, and there is a weird reception and eventually Ego invites Star-Lord and a couple of them to go back to his planet to show him proof that he is his father. Meanwhile, Yondu, who was supposed to steal Star-Lord from earth and deliver him to Ego, but never did, is still around and upon hearing Star-Lord has connected with Ego wants to maybe go save him.
It turns out, Ego is really a minor god with intentions of making everything into his likeness, destroying life as we see it. By himself, he is not strong enough to conduct his plan, but by using his son's body, he has access to two celestial bodies and then becomes twice as strong. About the time, Star-Lord is all convinced about his father being great, he starts revealing himself and the truth. He put the cancer in his mom's brain, just to get rid of her, and this infuriates Star-Lord enough to break the trance. Gamora and Drax have joined him on the planet visit, and before long, Gamora's sister is on the planet looking for her tiring revenge.
The sisters fight it out a little bit and then accept that it is neither of their faults their father was a monster who set them up against each other for his own crazy enjoyment. Yondu teams up with Rocket and Groot to escape his henchmen who have turned on him, and shows up on the planet just in time to help save Star-Lord. There is a weird meet-up with Sylvester Stallone telling Yondu he will die without honor, for being the way he is.
As Ego starts looking like a really bad parent to his one true son, Yondu is ready to do what has to be done, and in the last scene we see him sacrifice himself for Star-Lord who he raised as his son. Yondu explains that he kept him from Ego because he found out what Ego was trying to do, desperately trying to clone himself in every planet he found to see who could survive holding the light. Star-Lord wasn't special, Ego was just a dirty pervert procreating all over the universe to try and make more of him. Yondu dies saving Star-Lord in a very heroic way and it was very touching. The team and the whole premise for Guardians seems to be to show love and support for each other, as you don't know how quickly it can be taken away.
I tried my hardest to avoid the previews, I had no idea what to expect, and the movie delivered on entertainment. It was a little cheesy and cliché, but that is part of the fun, in these movies.
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