Thor Review -The Good, The Bad, and The Hilarious

I actually saw this movie about two weeks ago and couldn't make up my mind as to whether I liked it or not. I came out of the theater a bit bewildered. There were a lot of things about the movie which I thought were great. But there were a couple of things that made it a bit... stupid (even for the low level of intelligence a summer movie needs to reach to seem believable).

THE GOOD - The visual effects needless to say were quite impressive and pleasing to the eye. Specially the big robot thing that Thor has a western style standoff with.
The way the thing moved and behaved really made its destructive behavior very believable. The characters and acting were very enjoyable. In fact what really carried the movie for me was the balance between humor and seriousness in Thor's character. As he is one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe and Virtually Un-destructible it would have been easy for the character to become one dimensional. But with a good balance of humor and a loss of power the character becomes quite dynamic and likeable.

THE BAD - The story itself was a bit weak. I don't know how closely this storyline follows any of the comic Thor stories but regardless it seemed quite infantile. It actually just seemed like a reboot of  Masters Of The Universe (1987)... injected with a massive amount of steroids.


THE HILARIOUS - Something that made me laugh internally, while watching the movie, was due to my own personal life experiences. This was that rainbow bridge the characters would use to travel from galaxy to galaxy. Every time they were on it I half expected Super Mario to drive by in a Go-Kart and chuck a red turtle shell at Thor's head. See picture below to see what I mean.

All in all it wasn't a terrible movie. In retrospect, after thinking about it, if they were to release a sequel I would definitely go see it. So I guess after all Thor was good. But don't let me be the judge check out Thor for yourself and tell me what you think.

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