Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Movie was hilarious.
Not sure if it made a bit too much with the funny - sort of undermined the whole "epic final destruction of Asgard" element of it. Cate Blanchett is always great, but didn't have a whole ton to work with here. I didn't think any of the fight scenes were particularly great, because while they were entertaining, there was no real tension in any of it - the best was probably Hulk / Thor, but you knew nothing was going to happen to either of them and they'd be teamed up afterwards. Similarly, you knew Hela was going to just kick the crap out of everyone and that no one stood a chance. She straight up kills Volstagg and Fandral and the movie is basically like "meh, you shouldn't care about these characters who've been in two consecutive movies as the protagonist's best friends, let's just move on". The climactic battle is basically Thor et al massacring a bunch of faceless unnamed henchmen. And when Surtur comes out at the end, you knew that one was a fait accompli too; Hela wasn't taking him down. The only suspense was when Hulk went after him and for a split second you're wondering, "is Hulk really going to eff this up"? But no, it was just a gag. Also was not at all sold on Tessa Thompson as an alcoholic Valkyrie, and I'm barely familiar with the character's source material. They needed someone more physically imposing. Thompson seemed more like a GOTG character.
So there were some flaws.
But on the whole, it was a really entertaining movie, and frankly, Jeff Goldblum makes up for all of the flaws basically on his own. Unbelievably hilarious. For all the post credit scenes, usually you wait for the whole credits and at best you're like "oh, okay, I see what they did there". This one, he goes "it's a tie" and the whole theatre bursts out laughing. Guy is an absolute gem. Hiddleston is always great, and this was Hemsworth's best Thor performance yet by a mile (I guess not the highest bar, but still).
So while I liked it and it's worth going to see in Imax, I think at the end of the day it was too much packed into one movie to really get near the top of the list of superhero movies. It needed to be two movies to really give the Hela side of things its due and really get to the "epic" level of things, and the stuff on Sakaar could have been a feature length film on its own. But obviously that wasn't going to happen, so we get this, which is really good, but had potential to be amazing.
EDIT: Oh, and we're assuming that Loki took the tesseract, right? I wonder how that sucker finds its way into Thanos's hands.
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