Movie - Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) [+]
Jul 06 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder is the fourth Thor movie. Thor 1 and 2 were serious movies. Thor 3 went for heavy metal space campiness that worked well. Thor 4 continues the zany.
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is still hanging out with The Guardians of the Galaxy fighting bad guys and moping about his lost love. He hears that Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) going around murdering gods and that New Asgard is his next target. So he leaves the Guardians and returns to Earth just in time to help save New Asgard and meet the new Mighty Thor aka former love Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman).
After Gorr kidnaps the Asgardian kids Thor, Mighty Thor, King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Korg (Taika Waititi) head out to Omniponent City where all the gods hang out in order to recruit help but Zeus (Russell Crowe) shuts them down. Not deterred they steal Zeus thunderbolt and head off to fight Gorr in the Shadow Realms.
Meanwhile the subplot is love and we get to see in a flashback why Thor and Jane broke up after the first movie (or after the second movie). They've had eight years to regret and they're finally at a place where they can reconcile. Unfortunately Jane is dying from cancer, only Mjolnir keeping her alive but also killing her, which means Thor might have to choose between saving her and saving the gods...
This is a fun romp of a movie with big dazzling battles accompanied by well-known heavy metal (and other genre) songs. I like Gorr as a villain because he can teleport from shadow to shadow and summon shadow monsters making him a much tougher villain than you'd think. Mighty Thor has cool Mjolnir attacks -- it's still unfused pieces from when it was destroyed in Thor 3 so she can fling it and have it split into many deadly projectiles and it's also used in a key point at the end.
There's lots of humor with Thor. He's very sappy in the beginning. He longs for Mjolnir which makes his current weapon, Stormbreaker, quite jealous. Early on he acquires two giant goats which are then used to pull their viking longship (apparently based on Norse mythology and I think they were also in the comics). All the flashbacks are funny and we get to see fat Thor again.
Overall a very fun movie.
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is still hanging out with The Guardians of the Galaxy fighting bad guys and moping about his lost love. He hears that Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale) going around murdering gods and that New Asgard is his next target. So he leaves the Guardians and returns to Earth just in time to help save New Asgard and meet the new Mighty Thor aka former love Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman).
After Gorr kidnaps the Asgardian kids Thor, Mighty Thor, King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Korg (Taika Waititi) head out to Omniponent City where all the gods hang out in order to recruit help but Zeus (Russell Crowe) shuts them down. Not deterred they steal Zeus thunderbolt and head off to fight Gorr in the Shadow Realms.
Meanwhile the subplot is love and we get to see in a flashback why Thor and Jane broke up after the first movie (or after the second movie). They've had eight years to regret and they're finally at a place where they can reconcile. Unfortunately Jane is dying from cancer, only Mjolnir keeping her alive but also killing her, which means Thor might have to choose between saving her and saving the gods...
This is a fun romp of a movie with big dazzling battles accompanied by well-known heavy metal (and other genre) songs. I like Gorr as a villain because he can teleport from shadow to shadow and summon shadow monsters making him a much tougher villain than you'd think. Mighty Thor has cool Mjolnir attacks -- it's still unfused pieces from when it was destroyed in Thor 3 so she can fling it and have it split into many deadly projectiles and it's also used in a key point at the end.
There's lots of humor with Thor. He's very sappy in the beginning. He longs for Mjolnir which makes his current weapon, Stormbreaker, quite jealous. Early on he acquires two giant goats which are then used to pull their viking longship (apparently based on Norse mythology and I think they were also in the comics). All the flashbacks are funny and we get to see fat Thor again.
Overall a very fun movie.