Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Trailers: 7 Reasons To Be Concerned About The Film

7. Shaky, Uninspired Visuals

Because Guardians Of The Galaxy is set among the cosmos, it's relying on the strength of its cinematography to invest us in a world that, for the most part, is built on top of a green screen.

The first movie did a superb job here - the world packed a visual punch while still feeling lived-in and engaging. The second trailer for Vol. 2, however, does raise a couple of concerns in terms of the film's aesthetics - more specifically, a couple of shots look a little uninspired, and a little rough around the edges.

The first red flag is what seems to be one of the movie's central set-pieces; a fight against a gigantic, CG, tentacled beast, a creation that looks incredibly unconvincing and feels like it's lazily been stolen from Pirates Of The Caribbean's Kraken.

Battles against huge computer-generated monsters rarely work onscreen - just ask The Mummy Returns' Scorpion King or Green Lantern's Parallax - they feel fake, and so lack stakes, and it's a shame to see as creative a property as Guardians tread this path.

Elsewhere, the shot of Star-Lord's ship barrel-rolling away from an enemy swarm looks like a PS3 cutscene that's been ripped from Star Trek Beyond's Enterprise-destruction sequence, and here's the kicker; Vol. 2 is being shot by Henry Braham, whose filmography features the visually-atrocious The Legend Of Tarzan and the lacklustre The Golden Compass.

Let's hope Guardians is third time lucky, then.