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– Hmm.
– Hmmm.
– This prologue with Elves just screams Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital. I’m going to call the villain Bad Legolas.
– Asgard looks like Rohan, Gondor and Rivendell in the Lord of the Rings movies.
– And the score is very Howard Shore.
– It’s kind of crowded. I recall Asgard being more…monumental in the first movie.
– (Moment of respectful silence as Thor takes his shirt off.)
– Who directed this?
– Alan Taylor. Did several Game of Thrones episodes.
– Did he do the Red Wedding?
– Naah, that was David Nutter.
– Game of Thrones has a movie feel, this has a TV feel. As in network TV.
– Yeah, I get the impression that the director was directed by a lot of people.
– That’s what happens when you have a big movie franchise. Too many cooks. All of them trying to relieve the pressure of making 200 million dollars on the first weekend.
– Aaaaa! Loki looks like he’s auditioning for a Goth band.
– Or covered in Ly-Na pearl cream.
– That’s it?? Jane Foster’s been looking for him for two years and he just appears?
– I think they crammed in too many plot points, characters, details to satisfy the fanboys, so everything feels rushed. There’s no time to enjoy the moment.
– Why is Erik Selvig suddenly a comic character? He was a serious man in Thor and in The Avengers.
– Maybe there’s a clause in the Skarsgard family contract that says they all have to be naked.
– If someone had to be naked, why couldn’t it be Chris Hemsworth?
– Darcy gets some funny lines, but they fall flat because they’re not set up right.
– The sudden tone shifts from serious to comic are jarring.
– Even in the big emotional moments, you feel like you’re being rushed. Hurry, hurry, we still have a lot to work in.
– I liked the Branagh Thor, it was all about character.
– Remember, this isn’t just a movie anymore, it’s an installment in a big franchise that is part of an even bigger franchise. They have to expand on stuff from the earlier movies and then set up plotlines for the next several movies.
– Disney, will you please allow Loki to be an evil supervillain already? Get over your crush.
– Ah well. I like it, though.
– It’s fun, just overloaded.
– We love you, Thor! We wish there were more of you in your movie.
– Remember, we have to sit through the credits.
– Ooh, stinger.
– So that’s the storyline of the next Avengers movie. It involves…a bunch of items.
– Oh, he’s joining the Marvel universe.

Verdict: Watch. It’s not as if you had a choice (Nothing else is showing).