#thor four

I saw Thor 4 and that was fun. It's pretty and fast and very Taika Waititi. It's also a very family movie - bordering on being more targeted to kids than grown-up even with that Thor scene. I mean the whole ending especially - and all the actors kids were there.

It's sometimes more concentrated on jokes than the plot but one the jokes land - the whole cinema was bursting in laughter where I was (especially Zeus parts) - and two - it always manages to concentrate back on the main plot emotional stakes (and upping them progressively). My main complaint is that it felt too short. The Guardians are there only at the very beginning and there was not enough Sif or Valkyrie. And I really, really wished they gave the moments between Thor and Jane breathe more.

Still , the story of Gorr was well shown and Christina Bale is amazing in the role - both the scary and the heartbreaking parts. Jane's choices are well laid out - both the fact that she enjoys being the hero and the cost of doing the right thing. And Thor finally peeling of the persona to show what he really feels. Because of the short time it still felt like the Avengers movies did more to show how deeply damaging his grief was and the jokes still hide the real scars but they let us under the himbo mask at moments and I appreciated that.

I liked the thread of connecting colours and emotions - from the god robes to the way Gorr's realm leeches them out. It's the saying about loss and despair leeching the colour from life shown literally and the real story is about trying to find a way out of that that isn't just anger and shutting off emotionally.

The rest is SPOILERS

Loki and Sif: *look stoic and amazing*

Thor: *looks like he woke up from a trash pile like some stray dog*

Cast Taylor Swift as Amora the Enchantress

Portray her as Loki’s disaster ex whose evil scheme involves rekindling their romance and recruiting him as her partner in crime.