Review of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) by 4Tifier — 09 Jul 2022

This movie proves that Disney has no idea what it's doing with their franchises, and are far more focused on appealing to as many audiences as possible at the cost of the integrity and interest in their own stories.

For one, they're treating Thor's character with an incredible amount of disrespect. Arguably, he is the most tragic hero in the entire MCU because he's lost everything and failed so many times at the cost of countless innocent lives. Yet Marvel is trying to make him out to be the but of every joke.

Meanwhile, a character like Wanda who's lost her brother and lover takes an entire town hostage to live out her fantasies, kills numerous sorcerers and many of our favourite characters in "Multiverse of Madness", and we're supposed to treat her like a tragic villain?

It's a shame that Disney does not respect their own original male characters anymore and are more in favour of leaving them to the curb while forcing their new female characters to be more likeable and potentially carry the future of the MCU (which, by the way, they won't...).

And that brings me to my next big problem; the fact that Mjolnir could be reforged and was done so by Jane Foster.

So let me get this straight, Marvel; not only could Mjolnir have been reforged, making the entire Stormbreaker arc in Infinity War absolutely pointless, it was reforged by Jane Foster of all people?

Every person who has ever worthy of wielding Mjolnir have all had the following things in common;.

1.) They were super-human beings.

2.) They dedicated their existence and powers to protecting and serving life.

Thor had this. Vision had this. Captain America had this...

But Jane Foster certainly does not.

This only highlights the main problem that Disney has with its female characters. Its not the fact that they exist that's the problem. Its the fact that they become overpowered and flawless in every way for no sacrifice or cost (unlike every other MCU hero), and they give them the most screen time as if they've deserved it. That doesn't make for a good character; that's just incredibly lazy writing that will only serve to make similar female characters less desirable in the future (which is obviously the opposite of what Disney wants).

Then there's the problem with the Wish's existence. If that thing exists, it makes all other plot developments in past MCU films irrelevant!

Dark World war and Hela dying? Undone!

Ragnarok and Hela destroying Asgard? Undone!

Thanos searching for all the Infinity Stones? No need if he can force the Asgardians to take him to the Wish and use THAT to wipe out half the universe instead!

And, of course, there's the writing of this film as well, which is by all means a disaster which tries way too hard to recapture the success of it's previous film, "Ragnarok".

The entire film is just joke after joke; turning every moment whether suitable or not for a joke into a lead-up to some badly written one-liner. It doesn't allow any of the film's aspects to be taken seriously or with respect; especially Gor the god-killer who is one of the most bad-ass villains in all of Marvel's history who's treated like another disposable and shallow one-shot villain who's seriously under-powered. Disney is doing an absolutely horrible job with developing their stories and creating wonderful characters for us to follow and aspire to be like for future iterations of the MCU. They treat their more interesting and developed male characters as the comic relief, the under (and poorly) developed female characters like they can carry the entire film just by being there, and completely nullify previous plot and movie developments just to force their own stories to work after the first draft is done.

Definitely not worth watching.