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One week ago, I watched Marvel’s third installment of “Thor: Love and Thunder”, franchise.

It starrs Chris Hemsworth , Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Taika Waititi and Russell Crowe. It was directed and written by Taika Waititi. This movie is an Action/Comedy/Adventure. This movie has a runtime of a whopping 1h and 58 minutes. This movie was rated PG-13. This movie was released on July 6th 2022.

Onto the premise:Thor enlists the help of Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight Gorr the God Butcher, who intends to make the gods extinct.

Maybe I did hype myself too much but since it is coming from Ragnarok and Taika Waititi, I have high expectation for this movie.

Chris Hemworth is great to look at. That flick scene was definitely worth it but in the end, the lack of good story and the ‘heart’ made this movie feel empty.

It was a waste of Christian Bale too. The motivation ended up ridiculous. Like why as a God hater, he would actually asked another God being for help. I really thought his first wish was to bring his daughter, but it wasn’t so. He had the idea after Thor inspired him.

It was an entertaining movie. I did not mind Mighty Thor. Good introduction and Natalie Portman looked great but everything just felt hollow.

Some of the humour needed to be tone down too and felt inappropriate for some of the scene. The guardians was barely in it, even for a final battle… is it to prep for their own movie? Who knows…

In the end, was I entertained? Yes… Did I wish the movie has more heart in it? Definitely a yes.

Phase four basically fizzling out for me.

I sometimes feel like Taika Waititi is wasting his talents making MCU movies when he could be making great original content. But then he does make pretty good MCU movies, so maybe it would be a shame to miss out on those. ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ wasn’t quite as good as ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ for me, but it was still a decent watch.

The film is once again very light-hearted. It is certainly going for laughs more than anything else. Consequently the tone is very safe and no one ever feels like they are in much genuine danger. Which is a shame because Christian Bale plays a particularly menacing (at least visually) villain.

There are some fun cameos along the way as usual. The film is pretty well paced too. It doesn’t really have a period which I would say dragged. If you enjoyed ‘Ragnarok’ then you are almost certainly going to have a good time with this one.

Overall I really liked it even though it could’ve been so much better executed. In the end it’s a Hemsworth family member movie, which I’m not mad at that honestly. Therefore it was “worth a watch”.

Did you know?

Christian Bale had initially turned down the possibility of appearing in any more comic book or superhero films after The Dark Knight Rises (2012), seeing the genre as uninteresting from an acting perspective, and especially finding the experience of donning the Batman costume to be a miserable one. He agreed to take part in this film however, having been impressed by Taika Waititi’s previous works and after his kids begged him to take the role. 

Chris Hemsworth’s family appears in this film: -His sons Sasha Hemsworth and Tristan Hemsworth play young Thor in the film. -His daughter India Rose Hemsworth plays Gorr’s daughter Love. -His brother Luke Hemsworth plays a stage actor portraying Thor. -His wife Elsa Pataky plays a former lover of Thor. 

Korg’s god Ninny-Nonny sits on a throne of scissors because in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game rock beats scissors. 

Natalie Portman told In a Total Film in a separate interview that Christian Bale looked terrifying while in costume. “The children would run screaming,” she said. “He has a very, very, very scary look, in addition to, of course, his excellent acting. But, on this one, in between, he’d be like, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ It was just a normal conversation, which was jarring, because he looked terrifying.” 

Christian Bale almost dropped out of the film due to scheduling conflicts. Bale usually prefers to have wider gaps between projects but this time he had only three days after finishing shooting a film in Los Angeles and starting the mandatory Covid-19 quarantine in Australia. It was his children who eventually convinced him to make the scheduling work. 

Thor’s goats Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher appear in the film. These goats had appeared in both the Marvel comics and Norse myth of Thor. Their constant yelling is a reference to the famous internet meme of a screaming goat. 

Chris Hemsworth, on his 8th time playing the character of Thor, achieved his biggest physique ever for this film, getting up to 231 pounds (105 kilos) for the role. His longtime trainer, Luke Zocchi said, “He is in phenomenal nick. He’s the biggest he has ever been. He’s the heaviest he’s ever been.” This extent of musculature required Hemsworth to eat at least 8 times a day during the entire duration of filming just to maintain all the muscle mass he had acquired.

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