Whereas Kenneth Branagh’s first outing with the character was a fish out of water story involving Thor adapting to life on Earth without his powers, new director Alan Taylor (predominantly known for working quite frequently on Game of Thrones) tells the exact opposite story, making it classic sequel 101 in the same vein as The Hangover II or Rush Hour 2. Jane’s discovery awakens the race’s long thought deceased ruler Malekith (Christopher Eccleston), and Thor is forced to form an uneasy alliance with his now vengeful brother to save the universe and protect the woman he loves. The weapon was buried deep so its creators, a race of dark elves that predates the creation of the universe, could never find it. After getting sucked into the hole, Jane becomes the unwitting carrier of another potential world destroying superweapon known as The Aether. Jane gets brought back into the fold when her colleague Darcy (Kat Dennings) discovers a seemingly random and invisible wormhole not of this world. He still pines for his Earthbound love, astrophysicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who he keeps an eye on from afar despite her moving on to dating other people and becoming disinterested by the science that brought the star crossed lovers together. He’s still fighting to preserve a sense of peace and balance throughout the nine realms of the universe, but he still has no desire to take over his father Odin’s throne. Picking up shortly after Thor’s return to Asgard, having apprehended his evil brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) for his reign of terror in New York City, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) finds himself at a crossroads. This one doesn’t change things very much at all, creating only an exact inverse of the first film’s plot and almost never doing a single original thing worth noting. He sure can swing a powerful hammer, and he can unwittingly luck into a good one liner every now and then, but his first feature outing was only mildly passable at best. It’s not that I don’t think there are interesting directions to take the character in, but no amount of romantic subplots or team-ups or fish out of water stories will really make me care about him any more as a character. I don’t see any huge appeal to hulking behemoth of a God who can actually be killed through very vague definitions, meaning he really, kinda, sorta, isn’t a deity.
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I guess I should start off by saying, in full disclosure, that I don’t like Thor as a character very much. Now with Thor: The Dark World, an uninspired and almost shockingly lethargic entry into the Avengers canon, they’ve also used this year to deliver reason to pause and reassess the current direction of their franchise.
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Iron Man 3 wasn’t just the best film the comic book themed production company had created, but it was also a deliriously fun stand alone movie that worked well outside of its core mythology.
Marvel was able to start the year off so promisingly.
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