"Thor: The Dark World"

Okay, so I guess gods CAN die. Frigga, Thor and Loki’s mother, is proof of that. Odin himself says that they aren’t gods. They’re born, they live, they die.

Thor is back to bring order and peace to the Nine Realms only to be interrupted by the girl he somehow forgot about wakes up some ancient evil and it burrows into her body like a tapeworm. The said evil is called Aether; you never trust anything called Aether/ether. It's sought out by the once thought dead Dark Elves, which sounds like something left over from The Lord of the Rings. Thor returns to Earth to kidnap Jane in a Crocodile Dundee kind of way to find a way to get the Aether out.

Meanwhile, one of the Broke Girls is trying to keep the band together in locating Dr. Selvig to continue his research on the coming Alignment/Convergence, which sounds like it’s something out of Tomb Raider. The AnJolie one. If that’s not her shortened name, she should consider it.

This brings back my original point from the first Thor; this story is something out of English literature, but here it is with Marvel’s name slapped in front of it.

Loki gets retconned into a good guy because the story demands it, where Thor and his friends pull off the second most infuriating Ocean’s Eleven plots ever to break Jane and Loki out of Asgard to the titular Dark World, which wasn’t so dark. Bleak for sure, but not dark. Then Jane is free from the Aether, and the main leader, Kreacher, consumes it and heads for Greenwich, apparently the center of the universe. I always thought that it was weird how they chose Greenwich to be the center of all time on Earth, as the clocks are adjusted accordingly, but those guys might have been on to something.

In a fake-out fight, Thor loses his hand, that was masked by Loki, and Loki ends up dying. Thor uses the Alignment to extract the Aether somehow and kill Kreacher. After a heart to heart chat with Odin, Thor walks away, and Odin shifts into…sayeth WHAT? Loki? Can he simulate death? I’m starting to wonder about Odin says about death. But wait, Loki is a Frost Giant. Are they tricky to kill? But Loki shares the shape shifting traits from Frigga. Is she a Frost Giant? Can the sorcery be taught? Does this mean that Thor is the jock and Loki is the bookworm? This whole movie is basically the jock seeking help from his nerdy brother to save his girlfriend from destroying the universe? That’s just crap, man.

Watching Mew-Mew (Mjolnir) fly around the realms makes it confusing on what it can do. We’ve seen it on other occasions making a beeline to Thor, destroying everything in its path, but when it struggles to reach Thor due to him jumping between realms, it adheres to traffic and tall structures.

In the first of two end credits scenes Thor’s friends meet someone The Collector. The Tesseract is a what now? An Infinity Stone? What’s an Infinity Stone? And there are two of them? Sorry, SIX OF THEM? They hand the Collector something red. Is that Aether? Is the Aether an Infinity Stone? It makes sense; any bit of it that was thrown at Thor in the ultimate battle looked like bits of mineral. But what is it? I want to know.

The second is Thor keeping up on his promise and returning to Jane.

Heimdall says he can’t see the Dark Elves’ ship, which is some BS, we just watched him jump into air at nothing and destroy one of the ships. And the invisibility cloaks suck in this universe. The S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers seem to have the same crappy technology.

I think this a good time to point out something. Asgardians are armed with nothing but swords, shields, hammers, axes, and lightning spears. And they managed to vanquish enemies armed with weapons from Star Wars. This doesn’t make any sense.

I will say that my favorite part was during the Great Escape, Loki shifts into a guard, changes him and Thor into a soldier and Sif, the Xena extra that obviously likes Thor but gets glossed over, and then Loki turns into Captain America. I laughed out loud at that.

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Released On: November 8, 2013
Rating: PG-13
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Hiddleston, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Alan Taylor
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 66%
IMDb Score: 7.0/10

Awards
Saturn Awards

• Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture - Nominated
• Best Supporting Actor Tom Hiddleston - Nominated
• Best Costume Wendy Partridge - Nominated
• Best Make-Up Karen Cohen, David White & Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou - Nominated
• Best Special/Visual Effects Jake Morrison, Paul Corbould & Mark Breakspear - Nominated

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