Fantasy action at it's absolute best.

Rating: 9/10 (22 April 2012)

Speaking of movies, I saw 'Thor' last week. It's the story of the title character: Thor (played by the annoyingly-good looking Aussie Chris Hemsworth), God of thunder, son of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), and prince of the magical realm of Asgard. Thor is a powerful warrior who wields 'Mjolnir' the enchanted hammer and one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. He is also, however, arrogant and foolish. After going against his father's orders by towelling up an army of frost giants and reigniting an age old war, Odin strips him of his power and of his hammer and banishes him to Earth to live among the Earthlings. This is where the real fun begins.
The Thunder-God's interactions with the lowly mortals and his efforts to deal with his fall from grace provide bucket loads of chuckles and even a few LOL's. It's here that he meets astro-physicist Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and her team. Natalie Portman is just delightful. Really, I think she may be my new favourite, or at least equal with Katy Perry, obviously for different reasons. Katy has the curvy figure and the sex appeal market cornered, but Natalie is just so pretty. She has that 'take home to meet mum' old fashioned goodness about her. You'd love to just cuddle her, and not just 'special' cuddles either. She'd also be perfect for 'picnic' cuddles, 'beach' cuddles, 'romantic movie' cuddles, or if you are a freaky old German 'abduct and keep hidden in your basement dungeon' cuddles. Seriously, she is worth the price of admission alone.
Anyway, the movie is just huge. Huge on special effects. Huge on epic battles. Huge on awesomeness. Plus Chris Hemsworth is huge. I may have to look up the diet he was on to prepare for the role. I assume that by eating the food he ate and doing zero exercise I will look equally as good with no shirt on after three months.
The movie gallops along at a lively pace for the whole 2 or so hours. If you go to the movies to kick back, not think a lot, and just enjoy yourself this is the movie for you. As far as action/ fantasy/ blockbuster films go this one is hard to beat. I give it a solid 4 out of 5 stars. The other great thing about it is that Marvel studios is tying it in with its other big movies 'Ironman 1 & 2', 'The Incredible Hulk', and the soon to be released 'Captain America' to make a massive 'Avengers' movie which will feature all of them fighting together. How awesome will that be??!! It's pure fan boy comic book fantasy.
And on another side note, Thor would kick the absolute crap out of Superman. Seriously.