Movie Review: Thor

Ah, Thor: the barbaric hero of Marvel manliness. Partnered with his hammer of the Gods and his Pigheadedness of righteousness he is a force to be reckoned with. And his movie’s delivered to my door with amazing effects and breathtaking CGI in under 30 minutes…..only one problem, they forgot the plot on this thing!

Although most critics bowed down to this god (along with most movie goers that gave it five stars because something exploded in it) I must say that, it leaves something to be desired.

It starts with our hero, I mean, Thor as a small child with thoughts of great battles and amazing slaughters of civilizations! You can guess what happens when he is given the strength and power to do so. His first act as “almost king” is to declare war on a frozen wasteland, which ends in a disastrous result and a insult to his father. Being a good king and father, Thor’s “dad” does the heavenly version of a “time out” and banishes his son to a planet called earth, where most of the movie takes place.

Thor is confronted with many obstacles, huge fight scenes where, because of the camera work, viewers have no clue what in Asgarth is going on, cars, giant metal heaters, family troubles, and smerfs on steroids. All of which, make up most of the movie. All of this takes breath in amazing worlds of computer art, which tries its best to distract from the fact that the characters are not developed past the fact that they have names.

Let me put it like this, Thor is banished, he goes to prison, he is told that is father is dead, he gets out of prison, glugs down “the mother of all beers” with a guy he hardly knows, Show’s up at the trailer of the girl he met the previous day, tells her of his world, then the next morning makes breakfast for her and her friends! Oh, and a few hours later realizes his error and gives everything so a town is not destroyed… Ah, obviously Thor is on some form medication.

But still, on a lighter note the movie is filled with amazing fights, acts of sacrifice, and the finding of good morals in the cluttered basement of secularism, not to mention the artsy camera shots (besides the fight scenes), and truly amazing scenery and CGI that would make James Cameron weep with tears of joy. Unlike the other Marvel movies this one ends with hope, and although the character development got lost in the shuffle, this movie offers a hero that would fight for your life, not his own.