Thor: Ragnarok - Review

Here it is folks, the newest instalment in the incredibly huge Marvel Cinematic Universe is here. This time we follow Thor back to Asgard and beyond in Thor: Ragnarok. Or should I say we follow Thor on a quest to recreate Guardians of the Galaxy. I mean, man oh man. Talk about a studio changing tones. I watched the first Thor movie not too long ago in preparation for this and noticed that they played it very seriously. Sure, there was some humour in it, but Thor wasn't making funny little quips and swearing or show any charisma what-so-ever. Now, he has turned into a much funnier character and to be honest is much more fun to watch. With Guardians of the Galaxy, the humour played a huge part in the success of that movie and here, they try to throw in as many jokes as they can. Do all of them work? Most do. Some I saw coming from a mile away, but others were pretty unique and fun to see. Watching one character say he is going to do something and the opposite happens is pretty basic comedy and you see it everywhere. However, you don't always get to see Jeff Goldblum dressed as a member of an 80's synth-rock band and act as this sort of smooth dictator. So what I am getting at is that, with Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man, Marvel knows that they are allowed to have some fun with it. Speaking of having fun and changing the tone of these Thor movies, who would have thought to have an action sequence in a Thor movie set to "Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin"? After seeing the first and second Thor movie I would not have guessed that and you know what? I was freakin' awesome! I was totally along for the ride at that point. What holds this movie back is that is gets bogged down by the typical villain of the week plot. Like, I don't care about what Cate Blanchett's plans were or how Thor and Loki were going to stop her. I was much more interested in the world that Thor gets deserted on and how he has to adapt to his surroundings to survive. Those situations call for the funny lines, the weird and really unique costumes and set-design and the super awesome 80's sounding synth music as the score. More of that please. When the movie would cut back to Cate Blanchett's evil doing on Asgard, I couldn't care less. If this movie had taken itself as seriously as the first and second entries, it would have fallen completely flat. The filmmakers deciding to take Thor down the comedic, weird, and strange route was the right call and it definitely saved the movie. In doing so, Disney has made the best Thor movie yet, but just watch out, because any more villain of the week stuff and uninteresting bad guy premises will really test my patience with the MCU. I'm looking at you Black Panther. Don't burn me out of all this Marvel stuff before Infinity War.