{"id":470907,"date":"2022-07-06T00:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/love-and-thunder-is-an-overly-flippant-and-cocky-disappointment\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T00:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:52:45","slug":"love-and-thunder-is-an-overly-flippant-and-cocky-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/love-and-thunder-is-an-overly-flippant-and-cocky-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"#Love and Thunder&#8217; is an Overly Flippant and Cocky Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4168fe58704\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4168fe58704\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/love-and-thunder-is-an-overly-flippant-and-cocky-disappointment\/#%E2%80%9CLove_and_Thunder_is_an_Overly_Flippant_and_Cocky_Disappointment%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Love and Thunder&#8217; is an Overly Flippant and Cocky Disappointment&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLove_and_Thunder_is_an_Overly_Flippant_and_Cocky_Disappointment%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Love and Thunder&#8217; is an Overly Flippant and Cocky Disappointment&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;LOL.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/thor-love-and-thunder.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Thor Love And Thunder\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/thor-love-and-thunder.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/thor-love-and-thunder-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Walt Disney&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Rob Hunter\u00a0\u00b7 Published on July 5th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    Few heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have seen as dramatic a shift in character, tone, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance as Thor (&lt;strong&gt;Chris Hemsworth&lt;\/strong&gt;). His debut in 2011 revealed a muscular, mostly serious god somewhat out of his element, but the subsequent sequels and crossovers have seen his body swell, both via fat suit and an insanely jacked up physique. Even more striking, though, has been Thor\u2019s embrace of humor. It works, thanks in no small part to Hemsworth\u2019s comedic chops, but if &lt;em&gt;Thor: Ragnarok&lt;\/em&gt; (2017) is the pinnacle of that journey then &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor: Love and Thunder&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/strong&gt; represents a shockingly steep decline as it tries way too hard to be funny only to fall flat.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>When we last saw Thor he was hitching a ride with the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the gang has been <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing the universe fighting baddies since then. It seems Thor is a bit of a downer, though, as his false happiness can\u2019t hide the lack of love in his life. They part ways when Thor flies to old friend Sif\u2019s (<strong>Jaimie Alexander<\/strong>) rescue and learns that a new uber villain, Gorr the God Butcher (<strong>Christian Bale<\/strong>), has been skewering gods with a fancy sword and is heading to New Asgard next. Thor arrives just in time to fend of Gorr\u2019s shadow monsters and, much to his surprise, to see Jane Foster (<strong>Natalie Portman<\/strong>) whooping it up with Mjolnir as The Mighty Thor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em> sets up an interesting enough dual storyline \u2014 Thor\u2019s fight against the big bad, and his love story with Jane \u2014 but while individual elements succeed, the film as a whole just can\u2019t get (or keep) it together. The culprits are legion, but the main issue at play here is a relentless sense of humor, something that maybe wouldn\u2019t be so bad if it was actually all that funny.<\/p>\n<p>Director\/co-writer <strong>Taika Waititi<\/strong> might just be in his fathead phase where, intoxicated on the fumes of his own good press has decided he can do no wrong and the people want more, more, more! Nearly every beat here is drowned in desperate, forced attempts at humor, and while some of it lands (thank <strong>Russell Crowe<\/strong>\u2018s Zeus for that) the bulk of it crashes into the screen yelling all the way \u201cisn\u2019t this funny?!\u201d It\u2019s unfortunate as not only are there the bones of serious, thoughtful narratives here with both Gorr and Jane, but Waititi has previously shown he can balance tone beautifully with <em>Thor: Ragnarok<\/em>. That film is visually dazzling, filled with rich character beats, and funny as hell \u2014 <em>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em> is no <em>Ragnarok<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The script, co-written by <strong>Jennifer Kaytin Robinson<\/strong>, sees nearly everything as an opportunity for a joke. Some beats see that happen naturally, but far too often it\u2019s punchlines delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. It\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly unfunny movie, despite the filmmakers clearly thinking otherwise, and far too often those clumsy attempts at jokes end up treading all over character beats and serious undertones. One example \u2014 Sif makes a desperate call for immediate help, and we spend the next five minutes trying to squeeze laughs out of Thor\u2019s goodbye to the Guardians. She was literally under fire in her message, but no, let\u2019s milk a stale joke for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, the comedic stagnation carries over to Portman\u2019s performance too. Comedy has never been her primary genre of choice, but she\u2019s proven herself in the past with the likes of <em>Garden State<\/em> (2004) and <em>No Strings Attached<\/em> (2011). Here, though, she struggles trying to find the laugh in repeated attempts at nailing a catchphrase and minor banter with a similarly afflicted <strong>Tessa Thompson<\/strong>. She\u2019s far more reliable in the rare serious beats, noticeably in scenes apart from Thor and the others, and that carries over to Bale as well. He\u2019s terrific here and makes for a memorably motivated villain, but he\u2019s at his best in the bleak intro and a later scene between him and some terrified children. Mix him with Thor, though, and and Waititi\u2019s grasp on the tone becomes nonexistent. The only one who succeeds completely at finding laughs is Crowe whose turn as the boisterously selfish Zeus (with possibly an Italian accent?) is the right kind of silly and serious.<\/p>\n<p>If it sounds like I\u2019m harping solely on the comedy, well, <em>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em> is a comedy. The more serious elements are shoved aside with such ferocity that their effect is lessened dramatically. Both Gorr and Jane have threads that should land hard, but it becomes a matter of too little too late on both counts. The plot mechanics consist of slapdash connections and elements that the film doesn\u2019t even bother to explore, explain, or expand upon. It\u2019s a popcorn movie so logic isn\u2019t a necessary ingredient, but the best of the \u201cgenre\u201d still manage some kind of internal consistency. Here it\u2019s simply to stump for laughs at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>Is <em>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em> a bad film? Some people like haggis, so who\u2019s to say really, but it\u2019s definitely several steps down from its predecessor in nearly every way. There are some eye-catching visuals here, particularly in a later sequence in a black &amp; white part of space (don\u2019t ask), but it\u2019s also a film shot almost entirely against green screens with barely a natural landscape in sight. Bale\u2019s gaunt and ghostly figure cuts a memorable villain, but most of the fights are against dull shadow monsters lacking in menace or personality. <strong>Michael Giacchino<\/strong>\u2018s score is perfectly fine but lacks the absolute banger status of Mark Mothersbaugh\u2019s one for <em>Ragnarok<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Is <em>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em> a bad film? I don\u2019t know, but maybe it\u2019s time to reevaluate 2013\u2019s <em>Thor: The Dark World<\/em> as the franchise\u2019s weakest entry\u2026<\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Thor: Love and Thunder\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dca6f7118e64ea9aa6ef4f60221cfe7e?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=x\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Rob Hunter has been writing for Film School Rejects since before you were born, which is weird seeing as he&#8217;s so damn young. He&#8217;s our Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor and lists &#8216;Broadcast <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>&#8217; as his favorite film of all time. 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