Laughing away emotion.

Rating: 5/10 (3 November 2017)

I am not the one to write a lot of reviews, but this film bugged me a lot. Mainly the theme of it. This review do contain spoilers.
As a fair warning, I am not very into the franchise, but have seen some of the films of the franchise and I do find the best ones to be entertaining. But due to my displeasing experiences with some of the titles, I may be a little biased.
The setup of this movie seems somewhat chaotic, with the defeat of Saart (?), the situation at Aasgard and my confusion with the character of Loke. We get no time to have it all established before we chameos from another series, Odins death and the introduction and success of Hel, the main villain, which based on the mythology, which I know far better than the cinematic and cartoon universe, is the daughter of Loke.
Further than this I will not comment on the plot. It follows the textbook sequence in the following two acts which ends in the demise of the villain, and the source of a new problem. Safe and easy way to make a movie.
My main issue with this movie, except the villains army (which as in every installation of the series is just expendable "badass" inseparable spawn), is the emotion of it. Most movies contain emotional value, where you feel for the decision the characters you root for take. This is the only thing keeping us attached to these heroes which normally have no human-like features, except feeling.
Every time the movie tries to be emotional, you get some cheap slapstick line from the at least two comic relief characters. It's just lazy. When making a decision you have to feel the impact it does on the characters who acts, not chuckle over a cheap joke from our fellow Rastafarian sidekick. It seems as the movie tried to keep a light tone over the whole movie, but ruining literally every moment of emotion in a movie, makes it quite unbearable to watch to my. I now have no sympathy for anyone due to their emotional involvement in their home world being destroyed is dulled down by our clumsy Jamaican rock stepping on his bug-buddy. Cheap, lazy and bad film writing.
If you rely solely on the few moments of feeling I suspect must have occurred in previous installments, and keep riding on that, as well as Chris Hemsworths charisma and charms. I am not impressed.