When the mighty Thor is cast out from Asgard and sent to live among humans on Earth, he turns into one of humanity's most valuable defenders.
Starring Chris Hemsworth in the title role, Thor sets up another of Marvel's heroes with an origin story before giving us The Avengers in 2012. The Norse god of thunder's story is fairly straight-forward, with both timeline and character development alternating between light and extremely quick--which keeps his story as a single film instead of two.
Visually there is nothing not to love about the film. From the costumes to the backdrops to the action scenes themselves, you can tell the crew had fun working on the film and poured some love into the details. If the screenplay was as good that would have been nice too, but the love interest between Thor and Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) just seems too forced, and that is probably the fault of the pacing of the film more than anything else.
Because of the visual elements alone I would suggest catching Thor in theaters (if you don't mind the 3D surcharge), but otherwise there is nothing here that cannot wait until it hits DVD.
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