"Thor: Ragnarok"

Thor returns in his third solo outing that seems to rip off Guardians of the Galaxy with the jokes. They almost even cross paths when Valkyrie wanted to fuel her ship on Xandar.

Loki is now king of Asgard in the form of Odin. Odin’s been cast out and sent to Norway. The movie’s plot is kicked off as Odin dissolves into a fireball, and Hela, who’s supposed to be hella scary, shows up and banishes Loki and Thor to a planet where rules don’t apply and is run by Dr. Ian Malcolm, excuse me, the Grandmaster, in Jeff Goldblum’s best yet cartoonishly performance.

Thor’s hammer is destroyed, his hair is cut by Stan Lee, the demon barber on Fleet Street, and he’s thrown into recycled plots from Ben-Hur (the good one) and Gladiator. He is forced to fight the Grandmaster’s undefeated champion who turns out to be, surprise, The Incredible Hulk, his first appearance since he went AWOL in Age of Ultron. They duke it out and then Thor tries to persuade Hulk to de-hulk and become Bruce Banner again. The studio seems to be really indecisive about what the Hulk can and can’t do. In his own movie, Banner is struggling to gain control of his power. In The Avengers, Banner says he’s always angry and he’s able to control it. In Age of Ultron, Natasha had to do this weird hand stroking lullaby thing to get Bruce to change back, which Thor tried to use in this movie but ultimately failed. But on the upside to this, the Hulk was more verbal in this movie than in the other films. They form a plan to return to Asgard to stop Hela, joined by Valkyrie, a disgraced Asgardian warrior, and Korg and Miek, two fellow gladiators. In a plot recycled from Age of Ultron, they save the people of Asgard and let Hela burn with the Night of Bald Mountain guy.

It was very convenient that Thor killed the Night on Bald Mountain guy so that his skull is right where they need it to stop Hela.

We already know Dr. Strange makes an appearance in this movie, from the end credit scene in his own movie, and, damn, he is funny. His appearance in the film may be the best cameo ever. Sorry, Stan. I’m sure you probably expected more from him, which I gathered from the HISHE review on this movie. But I think they did the best they could do in this amount of time. He was only in the movie for five minutes; they can’t show you everything he can do, besides shifting through rooms, trading Thor’s tea for beer, and sending Thor and Loki to Norway to find Odin. If they did more than that, they would run out of things to demonstrate his power with later.

I feel a slight trend in the meh third installments. Iron Man 3 didn’t do any Iron Man-ing, Captain America: Civil War definitely didn’t do any Captain America-ing, and Thor didn’t do any Thor-ing, but he really didn’t really have a choice. Which reminds me, Thor had the power all along? Then why did he cart around that hammer for? Yeah, yeah, it's meant to help Thor control his strength, and, sure, it packs a punch and it makes a good prisoner weight but that’s all it is. It’s worthless.

This movie’s end credits scene is the Grandmaster being taken over from a mutiny. But there is a possibility he will be back. It is otherwise another pointless scene.

And since when is Asgard a people, not a place? They’re lucky that the Night on Bald Mountain guy didn’t pick up on that or otherwise, they’d be Asgardian toast.

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Released On: November 3, 2017
Rating: PG-13
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett
Director: Taika Waititi
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 7.9/10

Awards
Saturn Awards

• Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release - Nominated
• Best Supporting Actress in a Film Tessa Thompson - Nominated

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