Entertaining and fun

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2011)

I'm a bit of a sucker for super-hero movies, although I was unfamiliar with this particular character. Equally unfamiliar to me was the actor who plays this Norse god, 27 year old Australian Chris Kemsworth, and the one - British Tom Hiddleston - who portrays Thor's brother Loki. But I'm a fan of Anthony Hopkins, who here has fun as the top god Odin, and of Natalie Portman, who here is rather wasted after her terrific performance in "Black Swan". And then I was intrigued by the director: Kenneth Branagh who more usually directs works by Shakespeare (although let's not forget "Frankenstein").
The result is entertaining and fun, although the visuals are often stronger than the plot or the dialogue. I saw it in 3D but the extra dimension did not add as much as one would hope. While other men lose their mojo, Thor mislays something called his Mjolnir (his mighty hammer) but, once it's back in his hand, the young cosmologist (Portman) is all over him (so why does he leave her behind?).
Note: Like "Ironman " and Ironman 2", if you sit to the end of the credits, you'll see a clip which is setting us up for another Marvel Comics movie "The Avengers".