Thor: The Dark World Review

A SEQUEL IN THE DARK WORLD

An additional flick revisit from my ratty blog that has come to light. Indulge in! Whether by Odin’s Beard or by Thor’s Hammer, 2011’s Thor, a fantastical “Fish Out of Water” tale that is segment fantasy, segment service provider research fiction, segment mythology, and segment superhero flick had its skeptics and naysayers, but eventually prevailed over them at the box job-related expanse; so much so that the flick’s 2 lead superstars (Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston) reprise their jobs as Thor and Loki in the unprecedented superhero crew-upwards flick Marvel’s The Avengers that obeying year. Now, wearing Marvel studios (and Disney) rumbling out the Stage II legend of their MCU, Thor antiphons to Midgard (Planet) for an additional motion picture journey wearing Thor: The Dark Planet. Via a new director at the helm, is the next off chapter in the mighty Asguardian tale worth witnessing or need to the flick be eternally exiled to Svartalfheim (The Dark Planet)?

THE STORY

Ordering township after the occasions of both Thor and Marvel’s The Avengers, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Asguardian armed forces are trying to lugging proportion to the 9 Worlds and reclaim edict under Thor’s father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) leadership. At the aggravatingly same time, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), that is still a miniscule miniscule distraught over Thor’s separation from the initially flick, inadvertently stumbles upon a primordial power source termed the “Aether” that steals place within the young astrophysicist. This activity activates the awakening of Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) and his set of Dark Elves that’ve been from resting for eons, waiting for a activity of the Aether’s latent township. Fearing for Jane’s exuberance, Thor reunites wearing her on Planet and carries her to Asguard in an exertion to locate means to dispel the Aether from her. Yet, it’s to no gain gain application of of. Via Malekith anxiously combing for the Aether that is inside Jane and to gain application of its powers to plunge the 9 Worlds into infinite darkness, Thor need to seek out an awkward collaboration; placing his trust fund in his now jailed and 2-faced sibling Loki (Tom Hiddleston).

THE GOOD / THE BAD

While some didn’t prefer the entirety “fish out of aquatic” factor in Thor, I personally did. It in a comparable means made it exhilarating wearing the entirety “Shakespearean” confrontation wearing Loki (alienation, sibling rivalry, and betrayal). Plus, I’m a follower of mythology, so it hearing stuff from Norse mythology (tags, places, gods, and so on.) was pretty cool to go to and infused into a newfangled day superhero flick. So yeah, I did savor Thor wearing much blissful enjoyable. Besides that, I am a vast Marvel flick follower (specifically wearing all these installments for the MCU). So as speedily as they offered off the trailers for Thor: The Dark Planet, I was uber distressed. After witnessing the flick, I felt that Thor: The Dark Planet, while not as touching as its predecessor, is still an effective superhero flick that helps widen Marvel’s cultivation motion picture universe.

Director Alan Taylor, most specifically for alluding a digit of episodes of HBO’s Arcade of Thrones, steals a peripheral splendor point ofview to the mythical superhero flick in its scope and in its goal. Instead than being bounded on Planet for majority of the initially flick, The Dark Planet travels to polymorphous other planets within the 9 Worlds, furnishing viewers peripheral to go to (and awed over), while in a comparable means expanding Marvel’s universe to the universes. You can in a comparable means avail a feeling that the flick has a “bigger” wallet as visuals affects peripheral recurrent and little tidbit miniscule smoother. This is abundantly understandable as speedily as audience’s comeback to the planet of Asguard as it seems much peripheral “alive” and “fantastical” than in the previous service.

For the most segment, the story in The Dark Planet is straightforward and plays to the timeless troupes of fantasy flicks and (peripheral freshly) superhero movies (a strong antique, the resurface of an untaught evil, the lady-in-shock, an impressive “visual” final confrontation, and so on.). As a side-tab, the flick executes retain the MCU’s recurring continuity, wearing the main confrontation weakness between Thor and Loki lugging over from the initially flick as effortlessly as negotiating the “Battle of Newfangled York” from Marvel’s The Avengers. Less competent from its widened locales timeless narration of heroes and offenders, Alan Taylor in a comparable means revamps the activity series to be peripheral fierce and calculated than in the initially one. Even the music ranking for the flick, drafted up by Brian Tyler, is motion picture pleaser, loaded wearing provoking format templates and melodies.

Unfortunately, The Dark Planet has that “sequel” syndrome that plagues the majority of franchise. Interpretation that the flick doesn’t quite boost the bar in either the “Thor franchise” neither in Marvel’s MCU. It’s a attentive snacks enjoyable for a superhero flick, but it’s not as impactful or noticeably touching as it was in the initially flick. The flick’s reportage has some bumps that aren’t smoothed out, earning a digit of “plot” potholes listed below and there that comes at the price of “overstuffing” the service wearing secret personalities, a loose “McGuffin” things (The Aether), and the cosmic level bathing (The Assemblages). While director Alan Taylor broadens upon the activity and the inkling of planet gain-up into the flick, he steals away screen time from the slight personalities of the story. Via a sprinting time of merely under 2 hours, the flick can’ve been much longer; orientation peripheral time to twinkle upon the flick’s side personalities (most noteworthy in the “Warriors Three”) that seem peripheral surfaced in the initially flick instead than this flick wherein there of miniscule prestige for fast-term comic alleviation or to move the plot forward at assorted materials.

There’s also a sift of love triangle between Thor, Jane, and Sif is sift of invented and would understandably’ve been exhilarating to go to it tinker out, but this inkling is never ever totally discerned and is immediately slumped and forgotten.  Speaking of Jane, the miniscule chemistry that Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth had in the initially flick, is still discerned in the Thor: The Dark Planet. There’s merely not sufficient gunk for her and her individuality of Jane Foster to model in the allotted time postured, resulting in a unwell love story reportage. As for the main villain of the flick, Malekith isn’t in truth that intimating as offenders go and is regretfully a unwell villain to hole against the mighty Thor. To me, Christopher Eccleston is a attentive superstar, but the audience doesn’t in truth avail to go to that wearing the miniscule screen time he gain applications and wearing his challenges buried under the hefty prosthetics as he never ever in truth reaches a effortlessly-rounded villain, but instead a flat, archetype “baddie”. I ordinary drafted up for off of such a exhilarating villain such as Hiddleston’s Loki, any villain would understandably be flat and monotonous.

Chris Hemsworth antiphons the mighty god of thunder and recaptures that aggravatingly same individuality individuality of a male, albeit a godly one at that, that is still trying to forge his aggravatingly own training course in the universe while in a comparable means solving matters of the heart. Like his individuality, Hemsworth is not “a fish out of aquatic” as speedily as reverting to the semblance to Thor (various thanks to his attractiveness The Avengers) as he seems peripheral comfortable in the godly superhero individuality and the individuality is peripheral enthusiastic and heroic (not as cocky and egotistic). Sharing the limelight (and that basically swipes the “thunder” from Hemsworth) is Tom Hiddleston’s Loki. The main villain of both Thor and The Avengers antiphons and executes a masterfully duty of bringing the aggravatingly same personal value, centralized conversing trickster god individuality that administers him outshine polymorphous other that share the aggravatingly same scene wearing him. You merely merely love to hate him and that’s what administers a attentive villain.

A agglomeration of the corroborating actors from the initially flick reprise their rivaling jobs (wearing the exception of Josh Dallas that is switched by Zachary Levi in the individuality of Fandral), bringing a feeling of competences of ratty colleagues instead than wasting time to posture a slew of new ones. As I said, the Warrior Three (Fandral, Volstagg, and Hogun) and Girl Sif wear’t have a durable exposure in the flick than in the initially Thor flick, but they’re still exposure, furnishing upwards on the entirety continuity and enjoyable particles (still desire they would understandably widen upon them). The aggravatingly same goes for the aware “preservationist” Heimdall, played by Idris Elba. Well-versed superstar Anthony Hopkins in a comparable means reprises his semblance as the Odin and recurs to lugging a feeling of theatrical weight to the service. Like the others, he’s individuality isn’t as impactful in The Dark Planet, but is still attentive as the strong “Allfather”. Funnily, the individuality of Glamour Frigga, played by Rene Russo, has peripheral screen time than in the 2011 flick. Guidance on the Planet, Kat Dennings Darcy and Stellan Skarsgard comeback and lugging their comical agony wearing Darcy and Dr. Erik Selvig as effortlessly as the freshly designated rookie “intern to the intern” Ian, played by Jonathan Howard.

Also, (this can solid dumb, but maybe this merely bothers me), wherein is S.H.I.E.L.D in all of this? Ever before offered that Marvel’s Stage 2 flicks started, there has been a physical absence of the establishment in both Iron Individual 3 and The Dark Planet and are merely followed by moniker merely in a couple of scenes. I become aware that they have their aggravatingly own TV show (Marvel’s Speakers of S.H.I.E.L.D) and become aware that one of their episodes will snatch township after the occasions of this flick, but you would understandably reckon a secretive establishment that addresses the scary and uncommon meltdowns on a stable basis would understandably show upwards at any juncture of this flick and help out Thor and Jane in some means. Gain-up on that inkling, wherein the rest of the Avengers at? I become aware they have their aggravatingly own flicks and stuff (and filmmaking legitics), but still a “sizeable” bathing that arises on Planet and none of them show upwards to  help Thor and his mates. (Come on, Individual!).

Last but not the aggravatingly least, there is the secret easter egg that comes halfway wearing the flick’s credit histories. I won’t enter attentive information, but this fussy scene has a dual purpose. First, it catwalks this flick to an additional Marvel flick that is due out next off summer (Pointer: Preservationists of the Galaxy), while the second further seedlings the seed in a story string that started in Marvel’s The Avengers that will chance lead into future Marvel flicks. There is an additional easter egg at the aggravatingly run out of the credit histories and though it’s not as valuable as the initially one, its still a adorable scene.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Hemsworth’s Thor antiphons to the vast screen to conflicts against the evil Malekith and the all-strong “Aether” in Thor: Dark Planet. Director Alan Taylor second installation for the mighty Asguardian god broadens the mythos of its chief individuality and its 9 realms as effortlessly as expanding the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Unfortunately, it doesn’t trap sufficient of the exuberance (less individuality promotion, a unwell poverty-stricken male, asymmetric story precisions) to totally outpace the original flick. Yet, along wearing plenty of actions and closer visuals, the flick executes acknowledge a tickling sequel that will please most visionaries and viewers. Established on everything that has been said and conjectured, it’s defend to reckon that Chris Hemsworth will reprise his semblance as Thor in the next off superhero collaboration in 2015’s Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, but what around Jane Foster, Darcy, and the polymorphous other denizens of Asguard? Will Marvel Workshops environment-friendly light a thirdly installation for Thor is this the last time viewers will journey to the land of Asguard and beyond? Here’s to wishing that we avail to go to Thor 3 at some time in the foreseeable future.

Upgrade 6/30/16: As a digit of now become aware, Thor 3 was “greenlit” by Marvel Workshops, titled Thor: Ragnarok, which will be offered off on November 3^rd, 2017. So much, Hemsworth, Hopkins, Hilddeston, and Elba have accepted on to comeback, while beginners will be launched, entailing Jeff Goldblum, Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Karl Municipal, and Mark Ruffalo as The Hunk.

3.6 Out of 5 (Suggested)

Launched On: November 8th, 2013

Mulled On: November ninth, 2013

Thor: The Dark Planet is rated PG-13 for series of fierce sci-fi activity and violence, and some suggestive web content