Alo Party Peoples.
Anyway, Marvel Studios has by now proven to be a safe bet in terms of film quality. With good films steadily coming out, they have also been big hits, and have successfully brought comic book continuity to the big screen. They have also been able to bring the same quality and continuity to television with Agents of SHIELD*, and plan to bring it to Netflix in 2015.
You usually don't see superhero movies come out in November do you?
Anyway, Marvel Studios has by now proven to be a safe bet in terms of film quality. With good films steadily coming out, they have also been big hits, and have successfully brought comic book continuity to the big screen. They have also been able to bring the same quality and continuity to television with Agents of SHIELD*, and plan to bring it to Netflix in 2015.
They've also done this with variety. Sure they have all been action movies but think about it.
The Iron Man movies have been action-comedy, The Incredible Hulk was a high budgeted B-movie, Thor is cosmic fantasy, Captain America was a WWII pulp adventure,( and if that Winter Soldier trailer is to be trusted, the franchise is moving into all out action fare), Avengers was a scifi pyrotechnic visual ride, Agents of SHIELD is a Joss Whedon show, and the recently announced Netflix stuff might be the dark gritty and or serious wing of the MCU.
They might not be amazing, but they have yet to make a thing I have disliked. Let's see if Thor: The Dark World lives up to those standards.
Story: Here's our setup. The Dark Elves, a primordial race from before our universe, long ago attempted to destroy the Nine Realms with a super weapon called the Aether during an alignment of those realms.
The Asgardians stopped them, but now they are aligning again and the Malekith, leader of the dark elves, wishes to try again. Thor must spring Loki from prison to both stop them and get the Aether out of his mortal girlfriend Jane.
That's a lot of plot, and the movie is paced rather quickly as a result. That's not a praise or critisim, just an observation. Other critics have sited the story's quickness as a problem, but I'm not feeling that.
Oh, and there is in fact a post credits bonus scene, for those who like that sort of thing.
Visuals: If these movies are good at one thing, it's looking pretty. It takes fantasy and seemlessly blends it with science fiction, in terms of visuals. From the ancient glyphs on the holographic displays, to the Asgardian Air Force of flying canoes, to having guys with laser guns and black hole grenades be held off by guys with shields and spears. It all looks great.
Acting: Chris Hemsworth is fun as Thor, Tom Hiddleston is, as usual entertaining as the ever scheming Loki, Idris Elba and Anthony Hopkins are fantastic as Heimdal and Odin respectively.
Natalie Portman is good Jane Foster, and Christopher Eccleston is enjoyable as Malekith, there isn't much to play, but he does it well.
Conclusions: It's not a particularly deep or complex film, but it is very entertaining and I reccomend it.
Have a nice day.
Greg.B
*Still waiting for the season finale before tackling that. It just doesn't seem fair to review a thing that is not finished.It's been good so far
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