A Humble Movie Review: Thor

After almost a year later, I welcome you to another installment of a Humble Movie Review from yours truly who easily get amused with awesome movies that being mutilated around by hardcore snobbish film critics.

Marvel delivered another movie in a form of Thor, part of their ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe stuff that will climaxed in next years potential blockbuster, the Avengers. Thor is one of those comic book characters I never followed even once. I read X-Men, Superman and Batman comics back then but I never read a single Thor comic. I think I never had a Thor trading card either (in a form of teks, the gambling for 80s/early 90s kids).

The Characters
I love how Thor managed to put himself together being send down to Earth realm, powerless and arrogant after meeting Jane Foster and company. The villain was also portrayed well, but the character being the real antagonist is already predictable as soon as you see him.

I love the way they give everyone decent screen time especially Thor's buddies and the Shield guys, including the mind-blowing cameo of Hawkeye. Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman (Thor and Jane Foster respectively) has great chemistry and the female crowd in theater always giggling in delight when they see Hemsworth without any shirt. Hemsworth is perfect for Thor, he engaged to the role very well, complete with convincing greek mythologyesque accent. His brother Loki fits the part with his mischievous and mysterious aura, and of course, sir Anthony Hopkins is the perfect father figure, he is like a walking, breathing living God.

The Presentation
Its your typical "You must learn stuff for your self" film. The story is well written and considering the titanic mythology of Thor, they managed to fit all the necessary stuff in a 2-hour plus movie and they presented them very well and not very tedious to watch. The movie, overall, was good, one of the best comic book based movies ever. The way they introduce the characters were well presented since like what I mentioned before, I never followed the Thor series.

The special effects greatly reminds me of Avatar especially the Asgardian realm scenes. Whenever Thor flies he greatly reminds me of Superman due to the red cape sans his big hammer that he swings around that turns him into a human helicopter. There are some slice of unexpected comedy injected in some scenes that may not tickle the funny bones of extreme movie critics, but for me, seeing someone got hit by a car in a hilarious fashion is already a laughter generator for me.

The Final Stuff
I give this movie 4 out 5 stars. Even if I don't have intense and geek level knowledge of Thor universe, I managed to enjoy watching the whole movie and gaining a new appreciation to a Marvel Superhero known as Thor, God of Thunder.