It’s a comic book movie, I guess, a safe one. I never really understood all the hype or acclaim that Thor got. Watchable, sure. But it’s predictable for the most part. When we first see Thor and his brother Loki, it’s no contest guessing which twin will grow up to be evil. Thrown out of Valhalla (located somewhere in space), for his vanity, Thor finds himself stranded in the desert near Scottsdale where he befriends attractive researcher Natalie Portman and true Swede Stellan Skaarsgard.
The effects aren’t terrible - the ultimate battle between Thor and a giant armored knight, fought out in a desert town is pretty impressive and not without a lot of explosions, but the movie ends leaving us wanting something more, without tying up its many loose ends, namely the relationship between Thor and Natalie Portman, when he returns to Valhalla as a god.
Thor comes off as arrogant, and isn’t really likable until we see him with human counterparts: the scene where he drinks Skaarsgard’s meteorology professor under the table with boilermaker after boilermaker. Rene Russo is Thor’s mother Frigga, whose role really amounts to nothing.
Aside from Thor, everyone else seems to be in this movie to either serve as comic relief (such as Natalie Portman’s sidekick, or Ray Stevenson as the gluttonous Viking warrior) or a villain who creates confusing but obviously evil schemes that don’t affect Earth directly, only so Thor and his friends can have fun vanquishing them.
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