Thor Love and Thunder is the 29th Marvel Studios film and is the second Thor film to be directed by Taika Waititi and again Chris Hemsworth returns as Thor who has now shed his weight from Avengers Endgame and leaves the Guardians of the Galaxy to investigate Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) who is killing many of the Gods so he recruits Korg (Waititi) and Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) to help and also he comes across Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) who is also wielding his old hammer Mjolnir.
Thor Love and Thunder is a fun time at the movies but also one that the more it sits In my mind I’m finding to be a bit forgettable but before I talk more about that I want to talk about what I do like:
- Firstly Chris Hemsworth is still a lot of fun as Thor and it feels like since Ragnarok in 2017 he has been a lot more comfortable playing this role by allowing his own natural charisma (he reminds me a lot of Mel Gibson in his prime) as well as his great comic timing to seep into the role and its still good fun to watch him in this role and he seems to still be enjoying himself in this role much like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine before he retired from that role in 2017.
- Secondly Christian Bale is good as well as Gorr and while he easily could’ve been a very forgettable MCU villain (many of them are with the exception of Thanos for me) but Bale does a lot with this role especially with his facial expressions to make him a memorable part of the film.
But sadly there are some pretty significant problems with this movie:
- Firstly I have to talk about Russell Crowe as Zeus because it is embarrassing to hear that attempt at a Greek Australian accent and when he first started talking I thought to myself “You cannot be serious” and all I kept picturing was Con the Fruiterer from the Comedy Company which was an old Australian sketch comedy show his accent was that cheesy to listen to and look this is a silly movie in a lot of places but this part was the wrong kind of silly.
- And secondly I have to say I was disappointed in Natalie Portman in this movie now do not get me wrong none of this in any way, shape or form is her fault she is clearly enjoying herself here but the character was so poorly handled in the first two films and she had very little chemistry with Hemsworth in those films and the character was more or less ignored in the films between 2013’s The Dark World and this movie that having her comeback and play a pivotal role just didn’t work for me.
And this isn’t the first time sadly that Portman has had to deal with this as she had to deal with it while Padme in the Star Wars prequels where again she was handed a poorly defined character and had little or no chemistry with good Canadian kid Hayden Christensen that when the story pivoted to her being vitally important to the story as a whole it fell flat and as a result the film as a whole both those films and this one suffer as a result and it feels like a real waste of a terrific talent like Portman.
And so that was Thor Love and Thunder and overall its fun and many will have a good time but some parts were better than others so I have to give it a 2 and a half out of 5.
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