gradyharp Nine screenwriters assemble the dissociate jumbled element of this second installment in the THOR series (the first being directed by Kenneth Branagh and this one directed by Alan Taylor) and despite the presence of a very similar cast this version depends more on spectacular CGI effects than on acting. It is a movie for lovers of comic book tales and it just bounces between firestorm and dissolution of nine realms to London and back. The plot? This synopsis makes a little sense of it: ' Thousands of years ago, a race of beings known as Dark Elves tried to send the universe into darkness by using a weapon known as the Aether. Warriors from Asgard stop them but their leader Malekith (Christopher Eccleston) escapes to wait for another opportunity. The warriors find the Aether and since it cannot be destroyed, they try to hide it. In the present day, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) awaits the return of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) although it has been two years since they last saw once another. In the meantime, Thor has been trying to bring peace to the nine realms. Jane discovers an anomaly similar to the one that brought Thor to Earth. She goes to investigate, finds a wormhole, and is sucked into it. Back on Asgard, Thor wishes to return to Earth but his father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins) refuses to let him. Thor learns from Heimdall (Idris Elba), who can see into all of the realms, that Jane disappeared. Thor then returns to Earth just as Jane reappears. However, when some policemen try to arrest her, an unknown energy repulses them. Thor then brings Jane to Asgard to find out what happened to her. When the energy is released again, they discover that when Jane disappeared, she crossed paths with the Aether and it entered her. Malekith, upon sensing that the time to strike is now, seeks out the Aether. He attacks Asgard and Thor's mother Frigga (Rene Russo) is killed protecting Jane. Odin wants to keep Jane on Asgard so that Malekith will come. Thor disagrees with his plan, so with his cohorts, he decides to take Jane away. He enlists the aid of his brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Unfortunately, Loki's motivations remain unknown.' The other good folks on Asgard are portrayed by Jamie Alexander, Zachary Levi, Ray Stephenson, Tadanobu Asano, and the folk down on earth are Stellan Skarsgård, Kat Dennings, Jonathan Howard, and Chris O'Dowd. Oh and there is a cast a thousands of Asgardians and Dark Elves to tear up the screen. The real star is the team of CGI artists.For THOR addicts, this is an entertaining film. For others, not so much...

shapethemoviemaker Thor: The Boring world is one of the most boring movies i saw back then in 2013 and thankfully Thor Ragnarok was better than all 2 previous Thor Movies but as what i saw was that these thor movies tried to be serious and my ideal Thor Dark world movie would be like this The effects look OK like i dont realy like these summer blockbusters with CGI that much and costumes look ok and technicaly it was OK but what ruins it is average acting. Best character in the movie was Loki for me. Thor would be too but most of the scenes where hes enjoyable to watch is when hes with Loki rest of the movie is boring love story and Generic Villain and exposition nothing else till the fight. I actualy feell asleep 2 times watching the movie so thats something.Overall this movie i could recommend to marvel fanboys or people who like these dumb movies with overloadness of CGI and crap.

DCfan I am pretty sure it's not that bad is it? To be honest this movie is better then the first Thor movie by far. Honestly this movie isn't as bad as Iron Man 3. This movie does clearly show what happened to Loki after the first avengers. By the end credits of the movie we learn that Loki was never really dead he was just discussed as Odin the whole time which never really made any sense but still. Any ways this movie isn't as bad a critics say it is.

TownRootGuy They did a pretty good job with this but the first Thor was better. This has superb eye candy, a great cast, outstanding FX, excellent action AND they bring the funny, just not a lot of it and it's not quite up to snuff. In one scene Odin comes off as more of a dick than it seems like he would but since it's used as the setup for some light comedic relief it's tolerable. It could have been better but I can still watch it yearly.