It basically throws up its hands at its own ridiculousness and plays it all for laughs – and it gets them. Even the scenes set in “Norway” look fake.īut Thor: Ragnarok gets away with all of this because it’s so winningly, unpretentiously funny. Added to which, the liberal use of CGI and green screen makes for a visual flimsiness. And if you’ve sat through the past dozen recent Marvel movies, you’ll find the core elements very familiar – a rag-tag team of heroes (Thor unimaginatively dubs them “the Revengers”), an all-powerful antagonist, an impending apocalypse, and a set of essentially unkillable characters. There are a great many corners cut, plot holes papered over, and laws of physics bent out of recognition in this movie, to be honest. And rounding out the cast is Tessa Thompson, who turns up as a lapsed warrior from Thor’s neck of the cosmos, which is a useful coincidence. Photograph: Walt Disney Studiosįans will be satisfied at the most fleshed-out performance of Hulk we’ve yet had in this Marvel universe, though Mark Ruffalo is charmingly confused when he’s being Bruce Banner. Comic-book movies have spent a long time striving to be taken as serious, grownup entertainment but Thor: Ragnarok is almost an admission that you can’t play this material straight. It’s what you’d call a “romp” – and one whose lurid 1980s-retro stylings bring it closer to the Guardians of the Galaxy end of the spectrum, though its spiritual forebears would also include Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and possibly Red Dwarf. That’s the general register of this entertaining but frankly inconsequential Marvel movie. It’s there from the opening seconds, when we find our Norse god dangling before some horned demon, whose portentous monologuing is undercut by Thor’s continual interruptions, as he slowly spins around on his chains: “Hang on a minute… coming round again.” For a relative newcomer to the Earth, Thor has clearly got the knack of 21st-century comic timing. H e might be able to summon lightning from the skies and smite foes with his mighty hammer, but this latest comic-book outing bestows upon Thor an even super-er superpower: a sense of humour.
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