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Thor: Ragnarok

My thoughts with spoilers below.


Pluses:

The cast is fantastic.  Hemsworth is better than he's ever been.  I love seeing Ruffalo here as the Hulk.  One thing I always think when I see an Avengers movie is that I want to see more Hulk, and I like that they made the Hulk mature into a small child here.  As great as Hulk and Thor are, there are 3 newcomers that are even better: Valkyrie, Grand Master, and Hela.  Valkyrie is great as the Asgardian who is drinking to forget her past.  Goldblum is just fantastic as Grand Master.  Like I just love every scene that he's in.  And then there is Hela.  She gets her own point as a plus.

Hela is just an awesomely badass villain.  Like the movie just goes out of its way to show how overpowered she is.  She smashes Thor's hammer.  She single handedly destroy's Asgard's army.  Cate Blanchet has the presence to make this character believable.  After watching this movie and Spider-Man back to back it is hard for me to decide which villain I like more: Hela or Vulture.  Both are fantastic villains in completely different ways.

This movie is so fun and funny.  It is basically an action comedy.  I was laughing the whole time.  I found the humor to be a major plus except for the one spot where they made a joke when Asgard blew up.

The action in this movie is fantastic and it comes complete with a Led Zeppelin theme song.  When I first saw this movie I thought, "Man Marvel must have really upped the budget on this one.  It's got a bigger cast and much better action than the earlier Thor films."  Then I looked up the budgets of the earlier Thor movies and found they were about the same as Ragnarok.  Taika Waititi simply managed to do so much more with a very similar budget.   This leads me to my next point.

Thor: Ragnarok is simply better than previous Thor movies in every way.  More heroes.  More locales.  More humor.  Better action.  Better villain.  This movie is just plain better.  It's funny because the joke is that several trilogies have two great movies and then a dud (like Raimi's Spider-Man or Nolan's Batman).  Thor somehow does the opposite by giving us two duds and then a great movie.


Minuses:

For a guy who can shoot lightning from his fingertips, Thor sure does get electrocuted a lot.


In conclusion, Thor: Ragnarok is breathes wonderful new life into the tired old Thor franchise.  This is a must see for anyone who remotely likes super hero movies.  

9/10