By Kyler Janecek
Staff Critic
The first Thor movie was kind of a love/hate thing, really. Many said it was a great movie, and did a lot well. Personally, I think it was absolute garbage, and could go on for days about how it was boring, mostly pointless, and had only one or two good scenes in the whole thing. I won’t, though, I only mention Thor: The Failed Attempt because it leads into this quite well. After a horrible first movie, and an amazing co star role in Avengers, how does Thor 2: The Dark World hold up?
The answer is: extremely well. I assumed it would be as bad as the first, but I never guessed that it would be this good. Never once in the whole movie are you bored; the story understands how to pace itself and there’s a lot more action in it (without crossing the line into having too much).
The basic premise is that a race of Dark Elves from Thor’s family history are coming back from hiding, and have acquired a power that will help them destroy the universe, or something along those lines. Thor must go against the will of his father (who is probably used to this by now, and really should have been more prepared for the whole thing) and hunt down the Elves himself. He relies on the help of his friends from Thor: Such Disappoint, along with his mortal girlfriend and his evil brother Loki, whom he recruits for the mission.
The movie does a lot extremely well. Action scenes are well done, interesting, and filled with enough humor to make them all around enjoyable. Loki in particular is the highlight of the movie, with sarcastic remarks for everything, and an amazing few moments in particular that shoot my imaginary rating of this movie about 500% higher. This movie also carries some interesting twists that make it an emotional roller coaster at times, and you will probably find yourself fangirl-ing. (and if I ever say fangirl-ing again in a publicized review, please take me into a dark alley and beat me with a stick repeatedly.)
Another problem I had with Thor: Epic Fail was that it didn’t have a lot of interesting characters. This movie doesn’t add a lot more, but what it does instead is to shift the focus so that we don’t have to put up with the boring ones as much. The focus is on Thor, Loki, and Thor’s crew of human friends making a return straight out of Thor: I’m Done Thinking Of Arbitrary Fake Titles Just Accept That This Movie Was Bad, along with the new villains. It makes things a lot more entertaining, and gives it a more familiar feeling.
So, the final rating? Seeing as I have no problems at all with the movie, I’m going to say amazing. Do yourself a favor and see it. Maybe it’ll wash out some of the horrible tastes left from the first movie. Unless of course, you liked that movie. In that case, Thor 2 is probably too good for you. Let me guess: you probably think the new Spider-Man is the best of its kind as well, don’t you? Just go lie down over there, okay?
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