To no one’s surprise, the world of Marvel Comics lives on after The Avengers. This time, the cameras and the story return to the world where Thor resides. It’s called Thor: The Dark World and it catches up with his story while also introducing some new characters who arrive with some bad intentions. It’s a tough battle for Thor, but he won’t do it alone. This time he is going to have help from an unexpected source.
Picking up some time after the end of The Avengers, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) finds himself in Asgard living his life without Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), his true love. At the moment, his life is relatively calm for a superhero who has just saved the Earth from the clutches of Loki (Tom Hiddleston), his brother turned archenemy, but all that is about to change when an old legend from the past wakes up with the desire. to destroy everything in its path.
This new villain on the block goes by the name of Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) and he’s willing to see the nine kingdoms fall at his feet. Once everything is set up, it becomes clear that the mighty Thor can’t go it alone when facing this guy. You will need help for the dangerous battle. From that point of view, he has some of his loyal allies from his “neck of the woods” on his side, but he also recruits Loki in an attempt to save everyone from certain destruction if Malekith’s plans are carried out correctly. .
The pacing in Thor: The Dark World is essentially the same as what we experienced in its predecessor. It starts off a bit slow with a lot of walking and talking, but much of it is made better as the characters are already established this time. Because of this, Thor is not a normal human being or anything else like that that we had to put up with the first time. Here, he is who he is and has his powers everywhere.
The plot of this comic book movie is terribly familiar, but you don’t really start to see it until later. Much of the early parts of Thor: The Dark World focus on slowly building up some parts of the story while trying to fit the pieces together. There is also a part that just looks at the characters in this universe living life in the various places they live. I know they couldn’t do this, but I wish they would have done all of this instead of putting the spotlight on him for so long.
As part of that segment of the story, the movie puts a lot of focus on the romance between Thor and Jane Foster throughout much of it, but you can see that if you consider the fact that there are quite a few funny bits when those two don’t. They gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes more than I could bear. A good part of that success is due to some of the comedy and guys like Loki bringing legit personality and charisma to the screen. Removing him (and a couple of other people) would have killed the movie, so be glad I’m here to help.
I think I see it the same way I saw it in The Avengers. He has really grown in this role and turns out to be the perfect choice in my opinion. That’s not what I was saying after seeing the first Thor movie, but I’m happy to see him improve so much within this character. At this point, I think he has what it takes to be the main character in a movie. Since he’s supposed to be a villain, that probably won’t happen, but I’d love to see it. He doesn’t get as much screen time as I would have hoped, but he certainly should have. He deserves it.
While I would have liked to see more of the underused Hiddleston, I can’t say the same for Kat Dennings. I know it’s supposed to be there for comic relief, but I found it far more irritating than entertaining. She doesn’t really add much to the movie by any means and is about as funny as a comedian can be. I hope they at least think about taking her character out of the third installment, because she’s really useless and not very funny. Then again, she’s not bad though. Maybe that can be a reason to keep her in the eyes of some.
One of the things we watch movies like Thor: The Dark World for is the action. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but when you do, it’s interesting for the most part. I can’t say you won’t see better action elsewhere, because you will. What I will say is that it will give you a lot of what you are probably asking for if you like to watch movies like this.
When I see Thor: The World for what it is, the most I can say about it is that it’s at least more entertaining than it isn’t. There is nothing about him that stands out, and there is nothing about him that is surprising. The plot is what we have seen many times before and it takes too long to get into the important parts of the movie as they spend so much time on the love story between Thor and Jane Foster.
Pushing this too fast with a plot we’ve seen a million times is not what I want potential blockbusters to be. There are a ton of inset movies like this, so why not make a better story than the one they use? Fortunately, there are some characters that are quite entertaining and some action that is at least useful. Hopefully, they’ll give us a legitimate story next time. That and Loki having more to do will certainly continue to improve the series as a whole.
Rating: 3/5
Rating: PG-13
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast:
Chris Hemsworth
Tom Hiddleston
Natalie Portman
Christopher Eccleston
Stellan Skarsgård
Idris Elbe
Anthony Hopkins
Rene Russian
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Ray Stevenson
Zachary Levi
Tadanobu Asano
Jaime Alexander
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Movie length: 112 minutes
Release date: November 8, 2013
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios