Movie Review: Thor: The Dark World

[inverarity]

Actually saw this in the theater. I think I liked it better than the first movie, which was a surprise. It's rather remarkable how well Marvel has done pulling B- and C-list villains out of its archives as movie Big Bads.

Best parts: Loki's banter, and London getting trashed. (Why does it always have to be New York?)

Worst parts: No way do I buy Natalie Portman as a PhD astrophysicist. And if you keep slapping gods, sweetie, sooner or later one of them is going to slap you back. Also, there seems to be a biiiig unexplained plot hole at the end, which I guess will be addressed in the next movie?

Wait for the very, very end of the credits - the audience that waited for the first easter egg and left missed the second.

Comments

[fatpie42.livejournal.com]

Also, there seems to be a biiiig unexplained plot hole at the end, which I guess will be addressed in the next movie?

What did you think was unexplained at the end?

[graeme sutton (from livejournal.com)]

Really they might as well just call them the Loki movies. It's what half their audience tunes in for.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I actually disagree about Natalie Portman: I can buy her as a scientist far more easily than I can buy other love-interest-related superhero movie casting. See Kate Bosworth in Superman Returns and Blake Lively in Green Lantern if you want some major miscasts.

And Jane can always count on Thor to slap any god that tries to slap her. Or she can suck them into oblivion with those teleportation/anomaly-detecting instruments.

[tommy50702.livejournal.com]

I found it to be an enjoyable film, with great action, high drama, well-placed humor, and strong performances all around.