Thor was always at the bottom of the stack of comic books at the barber shop when I was a kid. It had something to do with a guy who threw a hammer at people. Thor the film is pretty much the same thing at the bottom of the stack.
The film features a couple of Academy Award winning "where's my paycheck" actors, Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins. Thor is probably the first and hopefully last film with the credits, Marvel Comics and Kenneth Branagh linked together. Branagh is a smart guy and probably knew that signing on for this would make him a lot of money and give him some box office clout.
Thor is probably no worse or better than any of these other unending super hero films. It has lots of CGI, over the top action scenes, a little humor with a couple of winks at the audience to let them know this is all kind of a joke and a running time that could have been shortened by at least 20 to 30 minutes.
One hates to use the cliche that the film was written by a committee, but this really seems to be the case. The film has at least 2 climax's and the usual odd ball casting choices with the legendary white bread Scandinavian home Asgard populated by black guys, oriental guys and british guys it's all very culturally diverse.
Thor is extremely undemanding stuff and nothing to get very excited about.
114 minutes.
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