The film plays out positing that love is a path worth following, even though it won’t always be without pain. Yet, as each character grapples with finding peace and purpose amidst the grief that love has left in its wake, Waititi imbibes a message of hope, suggesting that where it has led to hurt, love can bring healing and happiness again, that where it has been lost, love can be found again. With that also comes an exploration of pain, of emptiness, loss, the rise and fall of hope-byproducts of love lost. With New Asgard in danger, Thor returns to Earth to help, not expecting to find his ex-girlfriend in Asgard too.Īs suggested by the title, the film is an exploration of love-its costs, its worth, and its many different forms. Since Avengers: Endgame (2019), Thor’s been on a slate of adventures with the Guardians of the Galaxy, but their team-up comes to a close when Gorr the God Butcher appears on their radar, by, unsurprisingly, going on a murderous god butchering rampage. Love and Thunder is more true to this than Ragnarok while the hammer-wielding space-viking may exchange his dad-bod for a god-bod, post- E ndgame Thor is still awash with grief and pain, trying to work out who he is and what he lives for after suffering through the loss of his parents, his brother (multiple times), and his break up with Jane, his one true love.Īs the 29th Marvel movie, there’s a lot of history behind the tale, but never fear, Thor’s trusty side-kick, the one and only rock-man Korg, is on deck for an information download, chirpy narrator style. Waititi’s speciality (as seen with Jojo Rabbit, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Boy) has proven to be in striking harmony where there should have been discordance, in deftly offsetting the exploration of difficult topics and delicate vulnerabilities with offbeat quirks, humour, and vibrancy.
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Love and Thunder, by contrast, is a great, keening orchestral composition, full of up beats and down beats a melody that is, appropriately, felt more in the heart than in the blood. If the films truly were music, then Ragnarok, bright and loud and self-indulgent, would be a soaring guitar riff, high energy and high octane, making the blood roar. While Love and Thunder still goes to town with the razzle and dazzle (there are giant, screaming goats, electrifying displays of godly power, vast and majestic settings, and a ton of good old jokes filling the script), it’s a song that’s been written in a different key-one that reflects the heavy weight of Thor’s struggles, and of Jane’s. Doing away with the Shakespearean stuffiness and making Thor fun again proved to be a success Ragnarok hit the screen like a bolt of lightning, reinvigorating Thor’s character and reigniting interest in his individual storyline. Jane Foster.įull of rainbows, raucous music, and rib-tickling humour, Thor: Ragnarok, Waititi’s first Marvel outing, was a sharp turnaround from its slow, dark predecessors. After the technicolour triumph that was Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Taika Waititi returned to the helm to tell the tale of not just one Thor, but two this go-around Chris Hemsworth’s Thor shares the stage with Natalie Portman’s ‘The Mighty Thor,’ a.k.a. Thor returns to Asgard to enlist the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Korg (Taika Waititi)-only to discover that his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) has shown up, wielding his old hammer Mjolnir and fighting under the mantle of ‘The Mighty Thor.’įor anyone wondering how Marvel was going to follow up a film that featured flying animals, super powerful gods, and battle scenes played out to classic rock songs, it’s now possible to report that the answer is with more flying animals, more super powerful gods, and more battle scenes played out to classic rock songs. However, his quest is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who is trying to bring about the extinction of the Gods. Writers: Taika Waititi, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson,Ĭast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Jaimie AlexanderĪfter fighting for thousands of years, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is searching for peace – both across the galaxy and within himself.
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