Thor Review

Who's ready for non stop super hero movie action?! Eh. 3 super hero movies coming this summer (Thor, Capt. America, Green Lantern). Thor is the first. Quick summary. Thor is the son of Odin. Odin is the ruler of a far away land out in space that is super advanced in technology and magic. Thor is given immense power by his hammer, Mjolnir, (myol-neer) Basically Thor is a god with a sick ass weapon.

To the movie. Odin is getting old and about to pass his crown on to his son Thor. Everyone loves Thor cause he is a badass and super dreamy. Odin is a bit worried cause his son acts like Lebron and hangs out with his own super best friends. Thor gets angry, makes some mistakes, and Odin tosses his ass to earth, which apparently is prison, shoot he ends up in New Mexico, not exactly Detroit or Newark. Super smart scientist Nat Portman finds him, Thor tries to regain his power, and they fall in love. Of course we find out Thor was setup, his buddies come to save him and Thor does a 180, redeems himself, and blows shit up. Fin.

Basically I didn't like this flick. My first problem is the love story. Thor and Nat Portman fall in love in like 4 mins of film time. Puhhhhlease. Weak ass story, no reason for it, and totally unbelievable, which is saying something since it was easier for me to come to terms with the whole alien God thing. So there's that. Next problem is the production value. The special effects are good and all but the town they are in couldn't be more obvious as a movie town. Fake walls, fake streets, fakey mcfakness . Come on now, you spend 60M on EFX then skimp on the cheap stuff.

The movie has a couple good actors in Hopkins, Portman, and Rene Russo but none of them really do much for me. Portman is fine, the others are hardly on the screen. My boy Stellan Skarsgard is in it, love that guy, he plays Martin Vagner in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, coming next summer from Sony Pics.

ANYWAY. This isn't an every mans super hero film. People can relate to Spiderman, and Iron Man, and the like cause they are human and happened to be played by really good actors. In comes a hero from space played by a guy who is all hot body and no Shakespeare. Yeah, not so much Marvel.

I give it two Cushes outta five. If you really want to be in the loop for the Avengers movie, go check it out, otherwise pass and see it on HBO or Netflix.

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