THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER

Thor: Love and Thunder leaves the franchise where The Quest for Peace left the original Superman film series: without a shred of dignity left.

Half an hour into Thor: Love and Thunder you are treated to an amateur stage play with some big-name actors, hamming their way through the main storylines of the previous Thor film. The scene is meant to be awful and succeeds because of it.

Unfortunately the rest of Thor: Love and Thunder takes exactly the same hammy, 'don't take this serious' approach, this time expecting us to think it's an adequate way to spend 200 million dollars. As you might have guessed, I think it is not.

From the abundance of superfluous scenes to the cheesy jokes and the way the script purposely ignores pretty important plot holes Thor: Love and Thunder leaves the franchise where The Quest for Peace left the original Superman film series: without a shred of dignity left.

This is all the more infuriating because at the picture's heart there is a gut-wrenching story worth exploring with Christian Bale's god-slaying villain Gorr. If only Thor: Love and Thunder had told that tale.

release: 2022

director: Taika Waititi

starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Christian Bale