Ranking Guardians Of The Galaxy's 9 Best Music Moments

Marvel Studios movies are regularly lauded for their energy and sense of fun — and James Gunn’s opening credits sequence for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is really that in a nutshell.

While your standard blockbuster would focus all of its attention on the titular team’s battle against an inter-dimensional space creature, Gunn’s feature breaks that particular mold by instead letting Baby Groot have the spotlight and dance his way through “Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra.

It’s certainly a ridiculous and unforgettable way to open a comic book, but as we’ll discuss later, that’s something that this series is particularly good at…