>Marvel movies, in general, tend to take themselves a little
>too seriously. I'm totally fine with one of their series
>being balls-out silliness. hopefully Guardians 2 can ditch the
>boring exposition and just get on with the fun.

I think you've got it mixed up with DC. Outside of Cap America Winter Soldier (which seems to be a deliberate and imho successful experiment at flirting with other genres) and the first Thor (which they corrected with the second) they've all been pretty lighthearted