Movie review of “Thor: Love And Thunder”
Superhero movies are like guitar solos. They can be a bit noodly, and tend to go on a little too long but when they’re done just right, they absolutely soar, imbued with the kind of joy and wild abandon that makes you feel alive. Thor: Love And Thunder (2022) Taiki Waititi’s iridescent follow-up to the irreverent Thor Ragnarok is a giddy, gleaming guitar solo of a movie; a celebratory blast of colour, energy and emotion.
Love And Thunder does just that. It is, appropriately, a film about love in all its forms about its transformative and regenerative powers, and how empty life can feel without it. The film capitalizes on the events of Avengers: Endgame beautifully less in the team up between Thor and the Guardians (a blast to watch, but they part ways fairly early on), more in dealing with the grief, self-hatred and guilt that the God Of Thunder is wading through. That void, that emptiness, Waititi posits, is worse than the pain that love can bring.
Movie review of “Thor: Love And Thunder”
In so many ways, for mostly better and occasionally worse (a jaunt to Omnipotent City drags a touch), Thor: Love And Thunder is a deeply weird, deeply wonderful triumph. It’s a movie that dares to be seriously uncool, and somehow ends up all the cooler for it side- splittingly funny, surprisingly sentimental, and so tonally daring that it’s a miracle it doesn’t collapse. The Gorr-centric cold-open is as dark as the MCU gets, but this is also a Thor romcom with a loved-up ABBA montage, and a Viking longboat pulled through space by a pair of gigantic screaming goats (who nearly run away with the film).
It’s a movie about midlife crisis that feels like you’re watching one in action, with its gourmet gods, glorious intergalactic biker-chicken battle, and Guns N’ Roses galore
Weirder than Ragnarok, but incredibly sincere in its outlook, Taika’s Thor-quel is a big, beautiful blast. You’ll love it, and probably thunder it too. What a classic Thor adventure!
Movie review by Ahmed Shahzaib Butt
