Thoroughly entertaining

Rating: 9/10 (8 May 2014)

I can't say I was a fan of the superhero and his comics before the film, in fact I actually decided to watch this based on the cast (most of whom I am a fan of) and what a pleasant surprise it turned out to be.
So the story begins with scientist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and her crew conducting research in the middle of the desert of New Mexico when their equipment registers a strange astronomical anomaly. They race towards its ground zero to investigate, then suddenly out of nowhere a man appears and is hit by their vehicle. They team stops to see what they hit as soon as they see it's what looks like a man they quickly bundle him up into their vehicle and head for the hospital. Meanwhile, stranger things begin to happen all around them and it isn't long before they discover that their new companion is not of this earth. The story of how this stranger named Thor (Chris Hemsworth) came to be on earth and the slew of even stranger things that follow here him makes up the rest of the film. Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Idris Elba, Jamie Alexander and Kat Dennings co-star.