Rent Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Thunder bore - Thor: Love and Thunder review by cr

I think the other reviewer got it right.

This is a terrible bore of a film lacking any originality.

Hey guess how it ends!? Could it be a big fight between good and bad like in every marvel film yuh your right.

Marvel have been copying the very good first film avengers assemble and doing exactly the same with all the other films hoping people wont notice.

Clearly they havent as this film made 750 million at the box office!

Guess what to they are making another one as they have 750 million reasons to do so!

Only for fans but this franchise needs to stop as its getting boring.

THOR LOVE & THUNDER - Thor: Love and Thunder review by BG

Love the Thor films, they are so tongue in cheek!! This is one of the silliest films I have seen.. but so funny

OK But Nothing New - Thor: Love and Thunder review by GI

Taika Waititi's follow up to 2017s Thor: Ragnarok and more of his tongue in cheek humour and Chris Hemsworth relaxed and having an absolute ball in the title role. The previous film lifted the Marvel film franchise out of the doldrums, along with the Guardians Of The Galaxy trilogy (they make a brief appearance here too) and gave it a much needed injection of good natured humour. This latest does the same but with less originality and what you have is a fairly standard MCU film, indeed superhero film, with plenty of huge effects, monsters, strange worlds and punch ups (don't they always end up with one?). Here Christian Bale has been lured back to the genre as the chief baddie, who has a grievance with the Gods and sets about annihilating them. Thor teams up with his old girlfriend (Natalie Portman) who much to his surprise now wields his hammer, to battle him. MCU fans will love this and will be able to link the various characters from other films and there's a great cameo from Russell Crowe, who does a bizarre but hilarious accent as the top god, Zeus. Entertaining as far as it goes, nothing much new, and just maybe the franchise has chased itself up a dead end as further films may well be very tiresome.

Too much Artistic Licence - Thor: Love and Thunder review by Pork Chop Express

Taika has gone from an occasionally amusing Ragnarok to this attempt at a big budget Dumb and Dumber. It's feeling like its trying to strain some humour out of content that just really should be engaging and compelling.

Firstly let me tell you I am a Marvel and Superhero fan. I've grown up with Christopher Reeve right through to Tom Holland and seen every single MCU and DCEU film (sometime multiple times... Not Eternals though obviously...) Oh and I really should finish Wakanda Forever but found it extremely boring and disappointing and fell asleep watching it - couldn't be bothered to finish it a month later...). Love Chadwick.. RIP

SPOILERS

Thor has been developed onto a silly comedian from a coming of age maturity film in Thor. To a developing relationship with Jane in DW and then Ragnarok trying to save his people to a film dealing with love, loss and family. Jane has terminal cancer and weilding Moljnir revives her but drains her remaining lifeforce. He also has to battle a cunning character Gor with Godlike power as equally powerful as Thor with an actor with the experience of C Bale which is made little use of.

The interplay with the Guardians at the beginning is embarrassing and unnecessary and the narration by Korg (Taika) is annoying. Jane has become jokey too and this juxtaposes with her terminal dilemmas. Worst of all is a cringey scene with a fat Zeus who somehow has an Eastern European accent and also a couple of goats who pull a flying space barge whilst constantly goat screaming piercingly every few seconds and this gag wears extremely thin quickly.

There are a few things to redeem this which were probably hard boiled into thc original comic story and by screenwriters but really it is spoilt by Taika. DO NOT EVER let this plank back.

What is Kevin Feige doing? I guess we couldn't keep up the quality of the Infinity wars films in Phase 1, 2 and 3 which really feel like the glory days now.

Worth only watching for completeness if you are an MCU film fan