Thor: Love and Thunder
Reviews and ratings: 69 %
Description Thor: Love and Thunder
Action / Adventure / Fantasy, USA 2022, 125min. 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.
Main advantages
- Fun, silly entry, even kids can enjoy
- Fight sequences with amped-up guitar bangers
- Over the top presentation of mythological gods with non-caring and silly Thor dancing around
Main disadvantages
- It isn’t the classic Thor adventure its hunky hero seems to think he’s on
- Valkyrie feels like a third wheel here
- Many jokes land and many do not
Expert reviews
Thor: Love and Thunder review: “Unashamedly absurd and wildly entertaining”
After four solo movies – the first Avenger to reach the milestone – it’s clear there’s still plenty of charge left in the God of Thunder. Whether there’s a fifth remains to be seen, but on the basis of Love and Thunder Waititi and his mighty Thors are more than worthy of another outing. Read full review…
Thor: Love and Thunder Review – Christian Bale at His Most Evil and Underused
In the margins, Thor: Love and Thunder is more Waititi than Ragnarok was, but its center remains rigidly formulaic, flattening the film’s ambition and its discordant flights of fancy. The result is an affable product that’s colorful, smooth as it goes down, and utterly disposable. Read full review…
Thor: Love and Thunder Review
The biggest takeaway from “Thor: Love and Thunder,” aside from how Waititi really should get that “Star Wars” trilogy he’s been teasing, involves his bold usage of color, visually and thematically. It’s not just the eye-popping hues, which here include soldiers for Zeus who spew golden blood, or a bravura black-and-white fight sequence between Gorr and Thor on a tiny color-draining planet that uses select flashes of blue light with great effect. It’s that assured sense of tone that preaches how a movie can mix god-killing and kid-friendly crowd-pleasing moments with a gooey message about love. This sequel is not without its reservations, but Waititi continues to show just how unique these blockbusters can still be, provided their storytellers keep embracing some of their heaviest and funniest ideas. Read full review…
Thor: Love And Thunder Review
In so many ways, for mostly better and occasionally worse (a jaunt to Omnipotent City drags a touch), Thor: Love And Thunder is a deeply weird, deeply wonderful triumph. It’s a movie that dares to be seriously uncool, and somehow ends up all the cooler for it — sidesplittingly funny, surprisingly sentimental, and so tonally daring that it’s a miracle it doesn’t collapse. The Gorr-centric cold-open is as dark as the MCU gets, but this is also a Thor romcom with a loved-up ABBA montage, and a Viking longboat pulled through space by a pair of gigantic screaming goats (who nearly run away with the film). It’s a movie about midlife crisis that feels like you’re watching one in action, with its gourmet gods, glorious intergalactic biker-chicken battle, and Guns N’ Roses galore (the ‘November Rain’ solo is deployed perfectly). And come the closing reel, when the true meaning of its title is unveiled, it leaves our hero in a place so sweet and surprising, you’ll be truly moved. It’s a Taika Waititi movie, then — we could watch his cinematic guitar solos all day. Read full review…
Thor: Love and Thunder Review – Axe-girlfriends rule in Thor’s latest adventure
Thor: Love and Thunder is largely successful in honoring Thor’s long journey towards self-actualization and rarely falters while keying into the crackling chemistry between leads Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Tessa Thompson. It’s essentially the MCU’s first romantic comedy, and plays with those tropes in delightful ways. But while Thor and Jane’s relationship is handled well, Love and Thunder is less deft — and a lot safer than you’d expect — in pushing the greater MCU story forward. Christian Bale’s Gorr feels underutilized and Tessa Thompson’s King Valkyrie takes a frustrating back seat, especially as the movie goes on. Taika Waititi’s signature humor and visual style persist from Ragnarok, and are essential to buoying the movie through its cookie-cutter plot. With Hemsworth as enthusiastic an Asgardian as ever, Thor’s future with both love and thunder are bright. Read full review…
Thor: Love and Thunder review – A rare Marvel film that remembers its main audience are kids
Of course, Ragnarok’s distinctive humour is carried over, and there’s a blissfully dumb running joke about a pair of giant, heavy metal-screaming goats. But, really, it’s the heart that matters here. Love and Thunder’s characters are all running towards the same conclusion: that, no matter how long or short our time on Earth (or any planet) may be, we’re all inevitably living for the benefit of others. We love. Then we love again. It’s nice for Marvel, always caught up in its own chaos, to remind us of something so simple. Read full review…
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