Ragnarock Flushes the Asgardian toilet!

Rating: 2/10 (7 June 2018)

Wow! I love Thor ... have done so since I was a teenager. I appreciate humor : have been a huge fan of :"Faulty Towers" , "Mr Bean", "Cheers" , "Murphy Brown" and others.
This was, as so many others noted, Thor Meet Guardians of the Galaxy".
The humor is not funny .... sure, some moments had me laugh, but most of the laughs were of the pitying kind...... just lame jabs and really cheesy one-liners that wouldn't have made it to the screen of "Mork & Mindy" or "Family Ties" or even "Home Improvements". It takes REAL skill and talent, like that of Johnny Carson, to make bad jokes work.
This film didn't.
Even the VERY cliched use of Cate Blanchett .... what a supreme waste of talent! .... she was nothing more than a Sauron-ized version of Galadriel in this.
Even the CGI ... so very cheezy! The worst was the iconized Odin and the even worse Gladiator sequence between Thor and The Hulk.
It seemed to me that this director - or was it someone else's fault?? - simply stole the best bit from numerous other superbly done classics and hashed them together in this hot mess.
Sorry, but A Major Disappointment ..... I will not longer continue with the Star Trek reboot, the latest Star Wars and now Thor. This is what you get from a generation which has no roots in the classics - American, English and World - and who can't even manage cursive writing because it "is a waste of time"!
This film, sadly is a waste of time.
The only bigger waste of time I can envision is sitting through the 'new' version of "A Star is Born" due out later this year. A Rhodes scholar and the most amazing vocal and creative talent of the 20th Century are cookie-cutted by an excruciatingly 2-D offering. Barbra Streisand had the chops to step into the shoes of Judy Garland and create an enervating NEW and fresh version of a Hollywood classic. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga only manage to pull off what was offered here in "Thor: Ragarok" .... a pale, insipid and very weak imitation of Hollywood ART - I am not even going to hope for sublime. Passable even.
Mediocre would be a high bar ..... sorry folks. The actors are only able to do so much when the director is a tool..