Film Review: Thor: Love and thunder

 Genre: action/adventure comic

Cert: 12A

Director: Taika Waititi

Screenwriter: (written by) Taika Waititi, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe, Jaimie Alexander, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper,  Carly Rees...many more.....

Running time: 1h 59m

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scenes may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: Zeus blows off Thor's clothes in one scene. Thor is seen fully nude from behind for a second.

There are some mild to moderate sexual references in this movie

Mild innuendo around a character's large penis.

Zeus talks about inviting gods to orgies

Full male rear nudity.

Gratuitous male nudity and objectification.

Violence & Gore: Fantasy violence where characters are stabbed and torn apart with golden blood detail.

A villain pulls the head off a monster and throws it at children.

A man is seen without an eye.

A strong sustained threat to children.

Profanity: Uses of shit, bastard, hell, and crap.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Some alcohol, such as beer, champagne, and wine are shown. Some references to drugs or smoking,

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Has a dark atmosphere and tone, but not scary.

Some flashbacks about Thor's parents and Loki can be emotional

A character has a terminal illness and it is referenced frequently.

Story: Thor's retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who - to Thor's surprise - inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher's vengeance and stop him before it's too late.

Likes: Thor love and thunder is it any good? Look don't get me wrong I like marvel films when they are written well and cast well, I have a fondness for Taika Waititi's style of filming, when it came to Thor Ragnarok it was his best work, sadly Taika should have taken a break from MSC because this film, sadly isn't his best work. Not sure if their war is a conflict of how the story should go but Someone screwed up with this film. 

 Yes ok, will put my hand up and say Natalie Portman was born to play lady thor, especially with those jack-up arms to look good in the role on screen she looks awesome, but the writing for her is so bad in places which lets her character down.  

While Some of the action scenes and some scenes of humor are great, the problem lies in the success of Thor Ragnarok which doesn't match the overtone of this film. Sadly have to give the problems that let this film down with typical bad MCU decisions.  

Dislikes: One of the biggest issue this film has which seem to be throughout the whole film, is this blotted mess of scenes that didn't need to be in the film especial the Zeus scene was absolutely pointless as it leads to nothing, but yet another pointless character reveals that will probably never see the light in the MCU. 

The Screaming Goat yes it is a meme of a meme it was funny once, but them going that throughout the film was getting seriously annoying and unfunny, Having kids brought into a fight, seriously has the MCU run out of ideas. 

This is a screenwriting Flaw Jane (Natalie Portman) character having stage 4 cancer, there was absolutely no explanation on how she got to stage 4 cancer, let alone no explanation to what is stopping her treatment from working, this could have been easily explained in a scene to replace that pointless Zeus scene, it would have made more sense. 

Christian bale Gorr god killing character, ya ok I get the motive which works for the character at the beginning of the film I can see why he snaps, but the screen written is so utterly bad its unreal, he bearly in the film, you only see him n a couple of scenes, the rest he just lazying mentioned, instead of the audience seeing him, killing gods it's just a waste of a character that looks this evil.

On a serious Note Coming off from thor Ragnorok seriously feels like Disney is using Chris Hemsworth as a running joke of a prop just generating revenue, shamelessly bringing Natalie portman in a joke of a film written this way. When it had the potential to be a much greater film than it was. 

Overall: Over blotted, pointless scenes, annoying screaming goat joke

Rating: 3. out of 5 for Entertainment / 5.6 out of 10 for a Thor sequel