‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Is Probably the Worst Thing Marvel Has Ever Produced
My Take
Hello, despite the absolute garbage that was ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ I still chose to waste my Dad’s hard-earned money to watch ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’ because I had hope from Marvel in some corner of my stupid heart.
But I was so wrong, boy…so dead wrong. It brings me no joy to do this, but Marvel has been producing complete trash after the Infinity Saga. At least with Doctor Strange, I was hooked up to the film but with Thor, I was more concerned with my Nachos and Cheese popcorn. In hindsight, they were the only good thing in this film experience.
‘Thor: Love & Thunder’ is the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and sequel to Thor: Ragnarok and I don’t reckon seeing a film this bad in my entire life on this planet, let alone the MCU. It is undoubtedly gonna go down as the worst thing that Marvel has ever made, it will make its mark in history.
This film with a duration of 1 hour 59 minutes, is one of the shortest MCU films and chooses to make no sense in terms of plot, character development, logic, humour or even basic sanity. I guess only the post-credits scene was of any actual use in this whole crap of a film.
With all the jokes missing the punchline rendering them ineffective, this film tried to transition from a superhero to a super-cartoon film but failed tragically with scenes and screenplay making it stupidly unrealistic I get it was all done in lieu of comedy but when your comedy should also make senseless sense.
The fighting sequence is decent, but the plot could have been written better by a 3-year old. So predictable, like it fails on all grounds you could analyse it on. The plot is not organic and you are forceful fed scenes which don’t make coherence, like just jumping around like a monkey mind.
Taika Waititi who directed great films like Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit and even co-wrote the script with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson seems lost and falls flat in his attempt to create whatever he was aiming for. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Christian Bale are heavily under-utilised. Gorr the God Butcher is basically Voldemort cloned together with Sméagol but devoid of any villainous character, very boring and predictable villain.
Also, the love triangle between Thor and his hammers Mjolnir and Stormbreaker seems very stretched out and I’m like dude it’s not working rehne dete hai (let it go).
Before the climax, there was no zeal in me, I was sitting there devoid of any excitement wanting to walk out of the theatre since I was done with my Nachos.
Russel Crow as Zeus is again something that was particularly underwhelming. Absolute mockery is made of gods in the omnipotence palace, where Thor knocks out Zeus just like that without any effort at all is plain crazy and not in a good way. Agreed, it is a super cartoon film and cartoon needs to have power but this is not how it works.
The Young Army of Children wherein Thor gives them his powers and they slay the monsters with their teddy bears is the most ridiculous feat any film must have ever achieved, it’s very rare to be so absurd and stupid at the same time.
Spoiler Alert
The love story of Jane and Thor fails to invoke any emotion out of me like I didn’t even feel sorry for Jane as she dies of cancer. It was that ineffective in its narration, it focused more on Thor’s love story with his hammers.
When Jane Foster told God Butcher, ‘Don’t call me Lady Thor, call me the Mighty Thor or Dr Jane Foster and then tells him to eat her mighty hammer’, I felt like hitting my head against a wall and crying about the money I wasted.
Final Notes
This film does make any sense and is a speck on the decent image of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the film industry in general.
Thor: Love & Thunder is an absolutely shit film, please don’t waste your money and time. I mean I can’t pick point what’s bad in it, it’s just so bad in its entirety, and of course, this is the worst thing Marvel has ever produced.
I guarantee you that if you still choose to go to watch this shit magnum opus of a sad joke of Marvel, know you’ll regret it and remember that I warned you.
I hope this review helped in saving your money. Cheers!
