POSITIVES
If you watched Thor: Ragnarok, really enjoyed the comedic aspects of it, and wished that they would have leaned even more heavily into that, well you got your wish with this installment. Talk about embracing comedy.
Looking past the comedic aspect, this movie’s also got heart, and it’s also got some solid action beats. That’s your Love and Thunder right there.
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, and Taika Waititi are excellent in their roles as expected, but wow did Christian Bale once again give 110% to his performance and to his character here; Gorr the God Butcher. Shout out to Russell Crowe too!
Visually provides some nice location imageries, comic book splash page looking shots, plays around with color on black & white, plus those CG characters all look top notch. With all that said, the soundtrack and song choices are fantastic!
While the things the movie talks about are generally simplistic, there are still some interesting thematic commentaries it brings up that are worth exploring.
NEGATIVES
I’m sorry, but am I watching a parody of a Thor movie? Because it’s much too silly to be an actual legit Thor movie. I mean the character of Thor is practically a joke of himself.
It’s not actually a parody? Okay, maybe this is another example of comedy being subjective?
Oh wait, it got serious. Talk about a tonal switch. It’s like I’m watching two different movies.
Also, how come for an MCU film with a big budget and a huge supporting cast, the movie itself looks like it’s showing the limits of its budget much more than expected (you’d think they shot some of those scenes in a Best Buy parking lot or something). Plus the huge supporting cast that doesn’t really seem to be doing a whole lot when clearly the plot would suggest that they should.
Let’s just say that Director Taika Waititi was indulging himself way too much here and also at the same he wasn’t indulging himself enough in other aspects.
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