Thor brings enough thunder to satisfy my summer blockbuster appetite. The movie is like an evolutionary Superman 2 in which he has to loses his powers to in turn find out what it realy means to struggle and who he truly is. The director Kenneth Branagh, ingenously incorperated his shakesperean backround into this film by making all of the Gods/superheroes speak in a shakesperean tounge. It is very much so fitting because the Gods are put on a mental petistol so it was only right to seperate the Gods/superheros with another tounge than the regular humans. Branagh focuses on Thor in the human realm, it is no worse, or crazy, than its many comic counterparts. But when it ventures into murky other-worlds, it looks surprisingly new.
Thor splits its time almost equally between its heavenly origins and its earthly wanderings. In the former environs, Bo Welch’s (product designer) production designs look plucked from the earlier serials of the original comics. And the spacioul special effects, credited to several people, look as if they would have been outdated a decade ago. Eventho, they take an excert from Kirk Cameron's visualy high-tech Avatar as far as the rainbow bridge is concerned. But it’s hard to blame Branagh for such timeworn visuals since thoes elements usually fall out of the director’s reach to control.
Thor begins in the dreamlike Asgard, where everyone speaks in stiff, unnatural dialogue-shakesperean tounge(Branagh's wit). There, the king, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), warns his sons Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) not to face off against a tribe of warriors who look like giant Jack Frost's on steroids. They do fight, of course, but in a choppy, confused battle that shows Branagh’s limitations as an action director. Later, contray to popular belief, Thor finds himself exiled and thrown into a random shotgun city with a desert surrounding it where he is found by a trio of scientists (Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard and Kat Dennings). From there, Thor proudly inherits his "new kid" mantle — saying weird things, not knowing where he is and generally providing material for everyone to talk about.
While Thor is weak and has no God like powers he is suseptable to any plans his villans from the other world might have in store for him. thruogh a stroke of predestdined luck he gets a tip on the where about of his hammer-which he recives all of his much envyed strength. But, in his rigiorus, painstaking, and tiresome efforts in trying to obtain his much sought after hammer he gets caught. Luckily, Thor hangs around long enough to retrieve the magic hammer, which gives him extraordinary powers that come in handy when his villainous brother arrives for a showdown in the middle of a small town.
Now,I personaly hate 3D movies and the amazing thing here is, I’ve written all of this without complaining about it being in 3D. 3D is completely pointless for this movie, but it wasn’t a horrible post conversion tactic, it just did not add anything spectacular to the movie. But there was something plain about it. The Costume and Set Design was, for the most part, terrible. Loki’s full Costume looked like something you’d see in a low budget SyFy production. Another thing Natalie Portman, her role in this movie was almost as important as Kat Dennings and she was onli there for comedic relief. Why have a big named star in a film and have her do almost nothing? all together, the movie was a box office hit. But how can anyone really give these marvel comic movies a real review if there just based off of what has already been written in our minds, thus giving us a premeditated thought of what the movie should be like.
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