I’ve been saying to go see a movie in theatres for so long and finally, the other day (last Friday), my friends and I went to go see Thor: The Dark World. Honestly, I think I was super hyped up about it mostly because of Table 9 Mutant at Cinema Parrot Disco’s adoration of Chris Hemsworth. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first one so as much as the trailer looked fantastic, I still had a few reservations. Lets see how I actually felt!
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Eccleston, Jaimie Alexander, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgard
Thousands of years ago (I think), the Dark Elves lead by Malekith wanted to purge the world into darkness. Asgard’s leader then, the current King’s (Anthony Hopkins) grandfather destroyed the evil and sent the powerful source of energy,Aether to a hidden location so that no one could find it. however Malekith and a few of his army survived and escaped, ready to be awaken when the Aether summoned them again. Back to the present, its been 2 years since Thor (Chris Hemsworth) had left Jane (Natalie Portman). While Jane waits for him, Thor has been trying to bring peace to the nine realms. However, Jane and her assistant Darcy follows an anomaly and Jane ends up entering another space and find the Aether that enters her body. To protect her, Thor brings her back to Asgard and this leads to some serious consequences. Thor has to make decisions to save Asgard, protect Jane and choose whether to trust Loki as he asks for his assistance.
I don’t think I revealed too much. I feel like I’m just basically recapping the trailers released. Thor: The Dark World is a pretty awesome treat, at least in comparison to the first one. I love Chris Hemsworth and goodness, its HOT! but doesn’t help that I thought Thor was not all that great and I was yawning a lot. This one was really good. It felt a bit long for just a little while but did pick itself up rather quickly afterwards. Visually, Asgard is beautiful. The costumes were beautiful and everything was done so nice. The story was pretty solid and the characters were all fantastic.
I know many of you will give me crap but I loved Avengers but what I felt fell short was Loki as the bad guy. So unconvincing. Most of you thought he was fantastic, I didn’t. Now, Loki in this one, so convincing. I loved him to absolute bits as the gray area dude. Is he bad? Is he good? Has he changed? And c’mon, that ending ruled. Most of you that saw it (and I know all of you did, since my inbox had about 50+ reviews of that movie on the first 2 weeks or something if not more), so you know what I mean. And then that final sequence, I was like OMG! *ahem* I’m all over the place but point is, I loved Loki. Now, I’m excited to see him more!
I’m not afraid to admit my girl crushes but Natalie Portman is not one of them. Maybe I need watch Black Swan since I haven’t yet, but as Jane, she’s a bit meh. However, I seriously love Kat Dennings. Everything I’ve seen her in makes me laugh out loud. She’s fun to watch. I probably should start watching 2 Broke Girls (or whatever its called). Okay, aside from them, how awesome is Rene Russo as the queen? She is pretty awesome even though her screen time isn’t that much.
On the terms of our main baddie, Malekith, played by Christopher Eccleston. I really don’t have a lot of attachment to this character. He wasn’t bad, ok? I’m going to get that straight. I was pretty impressed with The Dark World in general. It was fun, had lots of action and nice stuff to see and all the cast did a pretty decent job. Plus, there was more Anthony Hopkins than in the previous one and I like him. Malekith was alright. I actually can’t remember much of him in the movie. Is that a bad thing?
Overall, Thor: The Dark World was enjoyable and entertaining. It had great action and the story was nice, maybe just a tad long but it picked itself up well. Also, other than loving the very awesome Chris Hemsworth as Thor, I also really bought Loki’s role this time around. I think it possibly had one of my favorite endings this year. This was a pretty fun one and I’d definitely recommend it! 🙂
Which Thor do you like more: the first or this one? How much do you like Loki? What did you think of Malekith?
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