Plot: Oden (Anthony Hopkins) gets mad at Thor (Chris Hemsworth) because of disobedience, and banishes him to Earth, where he crash lands. Cute scientist Jane (Natalie Portman) finds him, and gives him jeans and a T-shirt to wear, but soon they go off in search of his magic hammer. Meanwhile Thor's brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) claims the throne and sends a Destroyer to kill Thor. Action movie action follows.
Review: The Thor scenes on earth with Natalie Portman and especially wise-cracking Darcy (Kat Dennings) are entertaining -- the movie has fun with the comicbook stereotypes by having Darcy befuddle Thor with 2011 tech. The god comes to earth and is pretty clueless. Chris Hemsworth did a nice job with the part, and Natalie Portman was back to top form.
I was less entertained by the in-fighting of the gods on Asgard, and the fighting with the ice-people was dull. I did not like the blue animated ice King Laufey or evil brother Loki. Guardian Heimdall (Idris Elba) was pretty cool, and I'd like to see some sub-plots with him.
So the good parts were the low tech talking scenes, and the bad parts were the expensive fighting scenes and palace scenes.
The Destroyer battle in the earthtown was pretty scary -- it was the scariest monster scene I have seen in a while. I liked that part, and I was pretty into it.
The music was dull, and the art direction was spotty.
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh, based on the comic book by Stan Lee, et al.
Rating: 2.5 stars; pretty fun to watch, but un-even.
More: It looks like Jane/Natalie Portman is coming to Asgard in the sequel.
