Getting a difficult thing right. Awesome movie!

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2011)

As a Comic Book Geek, it has been just so disappointing to watch Hollywood butcher some of these great characters I've enjoyed since childhood. The X-Men movies still make me cringe.
This film was handled by some of the best. J. Michael Straczynsky (Creator of Babylon 5) wrote the script, Kenneth Branagh directed, and it had two Academy Award winning actors (Portman and Sir Anthony Hopkins). All of this meant it was going to be really good or horribly bad. There really wasn't going to be a middle ground here.
First, let's give credit to a smart script. First, the characters had depth, especially the character of Loki, who was not written as a one-dimensional bad guy. The actor who played Thor had a lot of charisma.
a bit of my problem, they actually had to write this as "Oh, wait, Loki is a bad guy?" kind of plot progression. Okay. I guess so, but that would require your audience to a) Not have ever read the comic or b) completely be ignorant of Norse mythology to not know the God of Mischief was going to be the bad guy here! Titanic had less plot tension.
JMS, while taking a few liberties with characters, is very faithful to the original comic (which has had nearly a fifty year run).
Usually I deplore the use of CGI, but here it worked in creating the fantastical realms of Norse Mythology.
Another point. All these Marvel films are all leading up to the Avengers movie. They even make references to the other films. (Hulk and Iron Man).