Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 130m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch
Synopsis:
Loki has usurped the throne of Asgard, Odin is in his dotage on Midgard (aka Earth, Norway), and Thor is doing his best to counter threats to the existence of the nine realms. One they did not count on was the escape from confinement of their elder sister, goddess of Death, Hela, who proceeds to devour Asgard with her sentinels of destruction. Meanwhile, Thor and Loki have fallen from the Bifrost and malinger on either side of the dominion of a whimsical leader of a junk planet, which also shelters a surviving Valkyrie and a certain unbeaten champion of gladiatorial combat called H...
Review:
From its opening scene in which Thor bandies bathetic lines with a petulant firebrand of a demigod, this third outing in the Thor subfranchise abandons all pretence at seriousness and opts for a Monty Python and Holy Graal approach. (Cf. also Luc Besson's The Fifth Element.) Fortunately it's all snappily written and performed and enormous fun, with a sexy villainess from a quarter you would never expect, and the incomparable Goldblum doing what he does best; well, about all he does do really. In narrative terms it also acts as an appropriately light bridge piece between Ultron, Doctor Strange and the later Infinity War.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 130m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch
Synopsis:
Loki has usurped the throne of Asgard, Odin is in his dotage on Midgard (aka Earth, Norway), and Thor is doing his best to counter threats to the existence of the nine realms. One they did not count on was the escape from confinement of their elder sister, goddess of Death, Hela, who proceeds to devour Asgard with her sentinels of destruction. Meanwhile, Thor and Loki have fallen from the Bifrost and malinger on either side of the dominion of a whimsical leader of a junk planet, which also shelters a surviving Valkyrie and a certain unbeaten champion of gladiatorial combat called H...
Review:
From its opening scene in which Thor bandies bathetic lines with a petulant firebrand of a demigod, this third outing in the Thor subfranchise abandons all pretence at seriousness and opts for a Monty Python and Holy Graal approach. (Cf. also Luc Besson's The Fifth Element.) Fortunately it's all snappily written and performed and enormous fun, with a sexy villainess from a quarter you would never expect, and the incomparable Goldblum doing what he does best; well, about all he does do really. In narrative terms it also acts as an appropriately light bridge piece between Ultron, Doctor Strange and the later Infinity War.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 130m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch
Synopsis:
Loki has usurped the throne of Asgard, Odin is in his dotage on Midgard (aka Earth, Norway), and Thor is doing his best to counter threats to the existence of the nine realms. One they did not count on was the escape from confinement of their elder sister, goddess of Death, Hela, who proceeds to devour Asgard with her sentinels of destruction. Meanwhile, Thor and Loki have fallen from the Bifrost and malinger on either side of the dominion of a whimsical leader of a junk planet, which also shelters a surviving Valkyrie and a certain unbeaten champion of gladiatorial combat called H...
Review:
From its opening scene in which Thor bandies bathetic lines with a petulant firebrand of a demigod, this third outing in the Thor subfranchise abandons all pretence at seriousness and opts for a Monty Python and Holy Graal approach. (Cf. also Luc Besson's The Fifth Element.) Fortunately it's all snappily written and performed and enormous fun, with a sexy villainess from a quarter you would never expect, and the incomparable Goldblum doing what he does best; well, about all he does do really. In narrative terms it also acts as an appropriately light bridge piece between Ultron, Doctor Strange and the later Infinity War.