Review of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) by Jluis_001 — 08 Jul 2022

As the MCU has been growing each film in its repertoire since Phase 3 has basically been chained to one another, for better or worse.

While Phase 4 has been a mix that hasn't shown coherence. Neither in the movies nor in the Disney+ shows.

With the exception of Loki, it doesn't seem like it's going to be very clear where this story is headed and Thor: Love and Thunder won't be the one to explain it to you.

This is a story that stands on its own, but that has caused it to fall short in that regard and also fall short for the long run because it doesn't seem that it has any kind of usefulness in the grand scheme of things.

I've never had a problem with the humor in the MCU, I'm not a sourpuss, but Taika Waititi turned this film into nothing more than a succession of gags that make of Thor a joke and all the other characters, have to follow his stupidity.

Natalie Portman shines in her best moments, but her story arc is only a step for the climax and closure of Thor's storyline.

Tessa Thompson is only there because the story cast her as the King of Asgard while once again Marvel wastes an excellent actor like Christian Bale on a villain who in the comics was epic, but in the film gets severely overlooked.

Thor: Love and Thunder is colorful piece of work that functions more as a comedy than a superhero film and gets lost in the grandiloquence of its own conceit, while offering nothing for the character or the rest of the MCU.

It's one of the weakest entries of the franchise and a major disappointment for the character.

At the end of the credits we find the usual caption: ''Thor will return''.