Alexia Vya

This movie is another Marvel shlop movie. Nothing wrong with that at all! I had a lot of fun with the movie. The movie is has a lot more corny scenes than the previous movie, but doesn’t get lost in the sauce. I think they could have cut down on the curse words and just made it a kids movie and it would have been fine. Hopefully they do that with the next movie! spoilers ahead! This movie did a fantastic job at moving Thor from being stuck in a depressive cycle to genuinely grow from his experiences. I think it’s a good message to send that trauma doesn’t get easier with age. People who are 1,000 years old can still get stuck in a rut trying to find an easy solution to their emotional state. They tried making him a badass, but that just leads to more hurt and doesn’t resolve the true problems. Then he tried hiding from it in endgame and that still didn’t work. Giving him that time to explore himself with the guardians allows me to believe he’s had time to brew on his emotions and just needs a little push from something he wasn’t expecting to get back on the right track. Therefore, he finds Jane who mirrors his problems. He has to stare at how his emotional ineptitude is acting like a cancer on his soul and learn to have forgiveness for this pain he’s feeling. Being 1,000 years old and never expecting any of his family or friends could die during that time just for it to snap during the marvel runtime is interesting. I think most people would assume he would be more resilient to trauma than us, but really, he’s way weaker to mortal trauma than mortals themselves. He is literally not built to handle those kinds of situations. Now that he’s spent time with Jane and healing his emotional state, he can finally truly heal by the end of the film and love himself for the person he is. Now having the tools to function as a well put together adult, the next step most adults have to take is upon him. He’s gone from a struggling single adult to figuring out parenting like the rest of us. We’ll see what kind of wacky Thor adventures he goes on next and see how he grows from the poor parent Zeus will be. That’s my hope at least because the movie does have a pretty damn good emotional core. The quality of how well that emotional core translates to the audience is varied. Plenty of people find it and enjoy it, plenty of critiques never see it and are bored by the repeat of marvel movies they’ve seen. I went into this movie expecting dog water for a movie but found myself enjoying almost every moment of the movie. If you’re expecting a movie like Civil War or Winter Soldier it’s not here. This movie is even lighter than ragnarok and wants to embrace that notion of comics being for kids. This movie isn’t made for the hyper analysts, it’s made to be a great blockbuster. TL;DR- don’t watch this movie expecting a thought provoking drama, this is a comic book movie who wants to embrace it’s comic book roots and be a comic boom film. It’s just Marvel schlop, if you’re burnt out of Marvel right now don’t ruin it for the rest of us.