And come the closing reel, when the true meaning of its title is unveiled, it leaves our hero in a place so sweet and surprising, you’ll be truly moved. 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 (the ‘November Rain’ solo is deployed perfectly). 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 that dares to be seriously uncool, and somehow ends up all the cooler for it - sidesplittingly funny, surprisingly sentimental, and so tonally daring that it’s a miracle it doesn’t collapse. 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. Plus, Gorr’s connection to the Shadow Realm means he’s responsible for some of the film’s most striking visual moments - all colour draining from the frame in his presence, our heroes’ powers punctuating the gloom in neon bursts. Taken from a different Aaron comics run, the deathly deity-slayer isn’t quite as foreboding as he is on the page, and jostles for space among Thor and friends ( Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie, too, comes out shortchanged) - though Christian Bale’s ghoulishly odd performance means he’s no Malekith-esque dud. If anything gets a tad lost in the mix, it’s Gorr The God Butcher. She, too, gets to be vulnerable, wrestling with life’s biggest challenges while playing a Thor with very little experience of, well, being Thor. Largely forgotten by the MCU post- Thor: The Dark World, Portman makes an excellent Marvel comeback, given more to play with here than in all her previous appearances. Taking inspiration from Jason Aaron’s comics run, Foster isn’t just back - she’s also wielding Mjolnir (whose new tricks make for a slew of ‘holy crap’ action beats) in the guise of The Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.Much of love’s sting comes from the reintroduction of Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi), and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who - to Thor’s surprise - inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. The film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced - a search for self-discovery. The latest trailer for Marvel Studios' Thor: Love and Thunderhas arrived revealing new details about the God of Thunder’s latest adventure - including a trek to Olympus where Zeus (Russell Crowe) reigns supreme. He went from dad bod to god bod! And after all that he reclaimed his title as the one and only Thor. After saving planet Earth for the 500th time, Thor set off on a new journey where he got in shape. It's time for the story of the Space Viking, Thor Odinson.
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