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Movie Review – Thor: Love and Thunder

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I found Thor: Love and Thunder to be better than expected, and I had high expectations going in. The story didn’t revert to the standard superhero tropes which makes it feel fresh. The only real knock I can give it is that in a few scenes, especially those involving the Guardians crew, the acting felt stiff. It was noticeable enough that I wondered if the bad acting was on purpose for some effect. If it was I don’t see why. But that’s a small flaw in an otherwise magnificent movie.

Effortlessly funny

For those who loved the humor in Thor: Ragnorok you can rest easy knowing that Thor: Love and Thunder is every bit as funny. Best of all the humor feels natural and in character and doesn’t solely rely on the dialog. You’ll find yourself laughing at expressions and gestures as often as one-liners.

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I don’t want to spoil it for you, so I’ll be purposely vague: one of the funniest characters in this movie was introduced in Avengers: Endgame but didn’t become a “character” until this movie. You’ll understand when you see it. Again, this is all due to great writing.

A Sympathetic Villain

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One of the most difficult tasks in writing a superhero story is creating a great villain. A villain isn’t just some super powerful character that the protagonists must battle against—If that’s all there were to it then DC movies wouldn’t suck so consistently. A great villain requires two critical components. Firstly, the villain’s goal needs to be clearly defined and expressed so that the audience understands their motivation. Sometimes stories convolute the villain to the point that it’s hard to tell exactly what they want. Or worse the villain is just a copy/paste of some trope and has no depth at all. Secondly, and most importantly, the villain’s motivations need to be framed in such a way that the audience can sympathize with them at least a little. It’s an added bonus when the protagonist can sympathize with the villain as well, even though they can’t allow the villain to succeed.

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A great example is Killmonger in Black Panther. His methods are extreme but the audience can understand why he would go to those extremes. And in fact, his goal is achieved even though he is defeated. It’s a case of the villain’s actions changing the perspective of the hero.

Gorr’s goal and motivation are made clear right from the start: kill all of the gods. With the exception of Thor, the other gods are depicted as decadent, uncaring, narcissistic characters that aren’t worth saving.

Creating a great villain also requires an actor who can bring the performance to life. It should be no surprise at all that Christain Bale has once again shown that he is one of the greatest actors of all time. He’s barely recognizable as Gorr. His expressions of pain and anguish, from the opening scene until the end, add great sympathy to the character. I think it’s past time that awards be given for the best created and best-performed villains. If there were such a thing Gorr would be hard to beat this year or any year.

A kid’s favorite Marvel movie?

I’m very curious to see if this becomes every child’s favorite MCU movie. While watching the movie in the theater there were many young children, probably ages 5-12, sitting in front of me. They appeared to be engaged with the story. I expect that young children will really love this movie because it is simple to follow, and for other reasons that I won’t spoil for you.

Golden Allegory

I found it interesting that the blood of the gods is golden. We discover that right from the opening scene, but later there’s a battle where golden blood is splattered in buckets. If instead, their blood was red it would look like an R-rated Tarantino movie. The golden blood reduces the visceral impact and gives it more of a cartoonish effect.

Maybe the god’s blood is golden for more reasons than only so the movie can keep a relatively tame PG-13. The writer/director Taika Waititi is unsurprisingly a progressive-minded guy from New Zealand. The gods in this story could easily be replaced with politicians in our world. And when you think of politicians and gold it shouldn’t take much imagination to see where Waititi was going with this.

Or, maybe I’m reading too much into this. What do you think? Comment below.

Tropes

There are certain tropes that many superhero movies repeatedly rely on. Thor: Love & Thunder does a great job of twisting those tropes in fresh ways. The action may be cartoonish but the themes and consequences are decidedly real-world: suffering, loss, and sacrifice. The characters display depth as they reveal hidden emotions and fears.

Grade: A

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Rated: (PG-13) Intense Sci-Fi Violence | Action | Language | Partial Nudity | Some Suggestive Material
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale
Director: Taika Waititi
Writer(s): Taika Waititi, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, Stan Lee
Language: English
Country: Australia, United States

Plot
Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.

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  3. Taika is a brilliant director, I love all his movies. This one was very good. What felt different in Love and Thunder, in terms of action, that every action scene has it’s own different style. Starting with the goody/cartoonish fight ft GOTG, then some classic Thor fights… etc to the final fight. Even the camera moved different in each action scene. Now having said that, I thought he could have done better visually with those action scenes comparing to Ragnarok.

  4. Good observation about the fight styles. I can see it.

    I agree, Ragnorok was more enjoyable, but I think Love&Thunder might be more meaningful.

  5. Michael Fields Avatar
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    “DC movies wouldn’t suck so consistently.” Really? I am going to have to call you on that one. While I like both, I find DC movies are more REALISTIC, while Marvel is more jokey. I mean In Venom they had the “Serial Killer” who he only killed when he was Carnage and not as the human (jumping up and down you think you know what happened) but the Joker IS like real life, he kills and does not care, in Justice League the bad guy worked to please his master, in Man of Steel the bad guy wanted to make Earth Krypton no matter what, so they all have motives, so I would not say DC sucks, in fact if you look recently Marvels The Eternals, Black Widow and Morbius all combined made as much profit as one DC movie (The Batman) so that should show you right there that Marvel movies do not always have a good story, but DC movies even though critics do not like them the people do

  6. Really good points. I think the main difference is that when DC is bad, it’s REALLY BAD. They’ve had some real stinkers. And they haven’t been able to come close to getting a good franchise going. Most of their best movies are one-offs: Joker, The Batman. There’s nothing wrong with that, and maybe it’s actually a good thing. But I’d take Phase III of the MCU over all of the DC movies ever made. To me it’s just night and day.

    Also, the MCU definitely doesn’t have great villains in every movie. They’ve had their share of stinkers, but DC has consistently had horrible villains. Most recently I found Wonder Woman 1984 to be embarrassingly bad. Like in the ballpark of Phantom Menace bad.

    IMHO, the MCU has created a really fantastic universe. They’re consistently good, and occasionally excellent. DC has a lackluster universe and a handful of really good one-offs.

  7. My local Regal Theater has a number of choices for 3D. I have read that the effects pop out of the screen in 3D. No idea whether that is worth wearing glasses.

  8. I haven’t seen a 3D movie in ages. I can imagine that some of the effects in Thor L&T would look pretty cool in 3D.

  9. Rob Williams Avatar
    Rob Williams

    I thoroughly enjoyed this when I went to see it last week.

    I think it is going to be one of those films that you see new things and get different jokes with each rewatch!

  10. There’s a youtube channel you might enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCanadianLad

    He has a series where he watches a movie at .25 speed so that he can notice all of the little details and make a video about it. But of course he can’t make these videos until after the movie is streaming.

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