“You
can't kill an entire race!”
“Why
not?... And what is this new found love for the Frost Giants? You, could have
killed them all with your bare hands!”
“I've
changed.”
Thor is yet another
Marvel superhero story where a vain, greedy man is shown the error of his ways
once something happens to him after he had done a not so good thing. This time
instead of a rich billionaire like in Iron
Man it is literally a mythological god who is sent down to earth.
Several centuries ago there was a war between some
mythological figures the Asgardians and some kind of ice people. The ice people
were defeated and all the realms lived in peace. The leader of Asgard is a king
named Odin (Anthony Hopkins). He has two sons Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki
(Tom Hiddleston). Thor is the oldest and set to become the next king of Asgard
should anything happen to Odin. He is eager to go to war with any realm who
wants to start one.
Somehow during a ceremony the ice people manage to break
into the castle at Asgard. Thor gathers Loki and a few of their friends to go
to the realm of the ice people and start shit. Well, they start a pile of shit
that gets so huge that Odin comes and gets super pissed at his son because now
peace with the ice people has just ceased. Odin banishes Thor to the realm of
earth without his powers and the ability to pick up his mighty hammer unless
someone becomes worthy of it like Thor once was.
Thor comes crashing down on a site that is being
monitored by scientists Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and Erik Selvig (Stellan
Skargard) and student helper Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings). Jane unavoidably hits
Thor with her car and they take him to the hospital. In photographs they took
of the lightening strike that came before they crashed into Thor they see the
outline of his body on the lightening. They rush to the hospital only to hit
Thor yet again with the car after he escaped from the doctors and nurses.
Back in Asgard Loki learns some things about himself that
do not please him at all. He becomes vengeful and evil. He wants Odin to die so
he can be king and seek his revenge. He also wants to find Thor and kill him.
Loki has always been jealous of Thor as the older brother who got whatever he
wanted.
On earth Jane and Thor begin to fall in love (what a damn
bore). Jane is willing to risk her reputation and her life to help Thor to
retrieve his hammer. The only issue is his hammer has been sealed up by
S.H.I.E.L.D who want to study it. He breaks into the facility but he is still
not worthy of the hammer after what he did to the ice people.
To make a long story short: Loki comes to earth looking
for Thor, Thor fights Loki and he once again becomes worthy of his hammer, the
brothers fight and it looks like Loki has died, Thor is upset and brooding
because he has come to like earth and he cannot see Jane again.
.The cast was great Marvel is amazing when it comes to casting even
their most secondary of characters. I loved seeing Kat Dennings she cracks me
up so much no matter what she does or says. She brought great comedy to the
movie right from the beginning. Darcy said what every woman who watches this
movie is thinking when it comes to Thor/Chris Hemsworth. Tom Hiddleston was
brilliant. I have seen The Avengers
more times than I can count so it was finally nice to see what crept up Loki’s
ass to make him so vengeful and evil. I have a harder crush/love for Loki than I
do for Thor and that is down to Hiddleston I think he is such a brilliant
actor. I felt the character of Jane was not very well written or acted. She just
felt flat either due to the writing or Natalie Portman’s acting. I have to mention Josh Dallas, Prince Charming
from the TV show Once Upon a Time,
played one of Thor’s buddies. I was dying because he had blond hair and an
awful mustache and I just kept thinking of him as Prince Charming.
My family has raved about Thor since it came out. They constantly rave about how much they love Thor. It has taken me four years to finally sit down and watch it. The story of a spoiled man-child reminded me of Tony Stark. With Tony Stark something happened to him that made him turn his life around. Same with Thor, he got kicked out of his home realm and he realized what a dick he was and he changed. That kind of story drives me a little nuts. But as a whole Thor was a goodAs with most
of the Marvel movies I have watched so far Thor
is worth seeing as a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And of course I would
not be a woman if I did not mention that Thor
is worth seeing for a shirtless Chris Hemsworth… shallow I know but deal with
it.
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