Thor Love and Thunder
“Thor Love and Thunder”
Are you ready to go to the movies and have some fun? Just some shove some popcorn in your mouth fun at the movies then whether or not you are a Marvel disciple or not Thor Love and Thunder is the movie just for you. This now being the forth installment of the solo Thor movie franchise that is once again in the brilliant and very capable hands and of writer/director Taika Waititi who has once again outdid himself. I think this is a perfect example of Disney taking a chance on a guy like they did with him in Thor: Ragnarok with a tighter leash to test him and it worked so this time they just let him do whatever he wanted.
Boy howdy I’m glad they did. Because like I said its sooooo fun. I mean I get it im a big comics fan too, I get Thor is supposed to be all Shakespearean and all but for my movie money give me emotional, goofy Thor any day. I mean its just not fair for Hemsworth to be so damn funny and that damn good looking but I’ll fork over my money for Thor every time he suites up because hes just that good. Dont get me wrong hes not doing it alone like I said earlier he is just executing Taika’s plan under his guidance. You also have the amazing and gorgeous Tessa Thompson, the always Stunning Natalie Portman making her return as Dr. Jane Foster and we have our big bad Gorr the God Butcher played to perfection by the always game to play Christian Bale. Not to mention Taika playing mine and your favorite pile of rocks Korg and a pair of characters that I wont spoil but as stupid and childish a thing they were to add to the movie the fact is that they just work and made me giggle like an idiot every time they “spoke”.
This story as fun as the ride is though deep down is about loss and what sometimes a tragic loss can do to a person or push that person to become. We all think we can keep a stiff upper lip and keep it together when loss happens but the truth is until it does happen to you its all just talk. Gorr is a man pushed to hunt gods when his failed him and then when he confronted him and was given the opportunity to ask him for justification his god laughed in his face and told him how little his tragic loss meant to him. That is the domino that sets the wheels in motion for this tail. So yeah its a lot of silly fun, but at its heart its a loss/redemption tail and about the ties that bind. The most fun I’ve had in a theater in a long time.
*This movie review was originally published in The Current River Observer as the River Reels article written by Jeffrey Riggs
