Enjoyable Fluff

Rating: 7/10 (15 May 2017)

Thor is a light, enjoyable comic book movie. The one word that perfectly encapsulates this movie is "simple". Thor's character arc of redemption works. The villain has just enough backstory to make him interesting. The "fish out of water" type of humour works. The movie is incredibly silly, yet it embraces its ridiculousness. This makes the movie very easy to get into. Only rarely do you get pulled out due to forced melodrama. The movie achieves nearly everything it sets out to. However, that is the main issue with the film. It isn't exactly ambitious. It does a good job telling a simple superhero origin story, but it does little more than that. Asgard seems to be to be very interesting, but more time spent exploring it would have improved the film. The action sequences are decent, but it could have been much more creative given the character's supernatural abilities. Overall, Thor could have been something great if it was more ambitious and creative. That being said, it achieves its goal of being good.