Thor was directed by Kenneth Branagh. Yes, Kenneth Branagh directed a Marvel movie in case you forgot. He tried to bring his Shakespearean flare to the movie. This movie is a hybrid between Norse mythology and Marvel comic book lore. I think the movie is more Norse mythology then the comics. It's actually a pretty funny movie. I forgot how fun it is.
Chris Hemsworth plays Thor, the god of lightning and thunder. He has a quick temper and a nice heart, and he is a spoiled brat in a sense. Tom Hiddleston plays Loki, the god of mischief. He is always jealous of his brother and that jealousy becomes worse when he finds out his true heritage. Anthony Hopkins as the obligatory look we have a really good Oscar caliber actor in our movie, plays Odin. The allfather fails to make a big impression in this movie. Idris Elba plays Heimdall who is the keeper of the bifrost, which allows travel in and out of Asgard. Ray Stevenson, Tadanobu Asano, Tadanobu Asano, Josh Dallas and Jaimie Alexander play the three warriors and lady Sif, Thor's friends who no one really cares about. On the human side of the matters Natalie Portman plays Jane Foster, the love interest and an astrophysicist. Stellan Skarsgård plays Erik Selvig her teacher and her mento. Kat Dennings plays Darcy Lewis, an intern with no connection to what they are actually doing. And Clark Gregg returns as Agent Coulson. We also get a cameo which the only introduction that Jeremy Renner gets as Clint Barton/Hawkeye.
The main problem of this movie is that it is mostly exposition. And Thor's bleached eyebrows. I mean it just stands out. A lot. It's good that the exposition is really good, because I think it is half of the movie. I mean sure the movie starts with Jane and her team chasing what appears to be a storm and runs Thor over, but then we get the entire background story. I mean we get the war between Asgard and Jotunheim, Thor and Loki growing up, and the current conflict between Asgard and Jotunheim and Thor and Loki's relationship. Loki did ruin Thor's big day and Thor went to Jotunheim to find out what happened. And Thor ends up in a big fight there. A fight which causes a fight between him and Odin which causes Odin to banish him to Earth. That's a lot of exposition. Although we do get a lot of sneaky Loki. I mean, after Thanos, Loki is the best Marvel villain and Hiddleston has a lot of charisma in this movie.
The scenes between Thor and Jane are actually pretty funny. Chris Hemsworth is a talent comedy actor. You can see a lot of potential in his in this movie. Some of it is unfulfilled, both in comedy and drama. He manages to charm all of his human friends at least. Despite his terrible behavior. Really disrespecting spoiled behavior.
Thor must prove that he is worthy to get his powers back and at first he fails. Although it is fun to see him wrestle all of S.H.I.E.L.D's security to try and get to his hammer. Then he can't lift it because he is not worthy. Also, Loki is so manipulative, telling Thor that his father has died and that his mother forbids his return. The jealously is strong in him. So is his faulted logic. Asking his biological father to kill his adoptive father, so he can prove himself to his adoptive father by killing his biological father. That's not a great plan. Neither are all of his plans. Like try to destroy Jotunheim better then Thor did. Or trying to killing Thor with the destroyer, which made Thor prove that he is worthy and get his powers back. I understand that Loki is confused since he found out that he is adopted, and he is hurt, and jealous, but this makes no sense. Luckily Hiddleston acting is so great that it works.
Even though it's not a great movie, everyone in it does such a great job that it totally works. It becomes a fun and engrossing movie to watch. So much fun. I think that the humor also works really well. I basically forgot how much I really like this movie. It stands the test of time pretty well. Except for the terrible CGI on Asgrad, that doesn't work. But most of the movie does.
The post credit scene sets up Loki finding the Tesseract and the Avengers movie brilliantly.
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