Entertainment - Nothing more, nothing less

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2011)

Thor is not a masterpiece, and if you go in expecting anything more than cheesy action, pretty faces, and great production, you will be disappointed. However, if you go in expecting to be entertained for two hours and not be grossed out, offended, depressed, or bored, you'll get that. The main actor is good, the side characters are tolerable, the plot is easy to follow but pretty much sticks to the source material (not being a comic reader--my comic buff fiancée watched it and wasn't distressed by any changes), the CGI is really nice, especially for the city of Asgard, and the sound is fantastic, it's really realistic and has a strong impact without actually being loud. There's the general swords and sorcery battling, but no gore, no sex, no real violence or scary scenes, it's just good clean cool-guy-with- powers-doing-cool-stuff and the scenes in the human world are actually quite amusing without being painfully awkward or overdone.
Summary: 7/10, because it did everything it should as a superhero movie but didn't go above and beyond in any way.