Thor 2 – The Dark World

Got distracted by a few things since we went to see this on Saturday, but now am finally back to get this review up (don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about Switzerland, I just haven’t got around to posting about it, maybe this weekend). Ahhh, even this one I keep getting sidetracked, any way, we have some cheap movie tickets that we haven’t used and thought we better go see something before they expire, nothing particularly inspiring at the cinemas so why not watch another marvel comics film to make sure that we keep in the loop.

Thor 2: The Dark World

So, back to the movie, a sequel to the original Thor movie and based two years after the Avengers, the plot is that some Dark Elves want to destroy the universe and kill everyone (using a weapon called the Aether) so Thor has to save the universe again. The start seemed to have some Hellboy about it (but nowhere near as well done), and I still get confused when aliens from other planets speak their own special languages, while other aliens from other planets speak English, just make them all speak English in the different accents and we’ll assume that they’re speaking their own language, save me having to read subtitles for a made-up language. So this plot was originally thwarted by Thor’s grandfather thousands of years ago, but then when “The Convergence” occurs (or is about to occur, dimensional wormholes start opening up all over the “nine realms” transporting people and objects all over the universe. This releases the power of the Aether and awakens the Dark Elves (the ones that escaped, hidden in suspended animation somewhere), and even though they have been asleep for thousands of years they still have weaponry that is at least as advanced as the Asgardians as they attack and leave the Asgardian capital city completely defenseless.

Any way, Thor works out a way (with Loki, OMG they teamed up! Who would have ever thought of that?) to lure the elves away from Asgard and fight them somewhere else (the elves’ home planet of all places), obviously this doesn’t quite work as planned but he is given a second chance as The Convergence has not occurred yet and will take place on Earth, miraculously (!) there is a wormhole that Thor and Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) somehow find and transport themselves back to Earth just in time to make another counter attack and rid the universe of the Dark Elves once and for all.

So in conclusion, the film is obviously quite predictable, but pretty entertaining if you ignore all the obvious plot holes and the sheer stupidity of the whole Thor concept, they’re Norwegian or Swedish (are they based on the Nazi Aryan race, hmmm)? I’m not sure if it’s worth going out to watch, but it will fill up two hours of your life without killing you, plus one for brain-dead entertainment! Picture taken from the wikipedia page, we also got to see the Captain America trailer (although I don’t know who the bad guy is) but we didn’t stay for the end credits scene (something to do with The Collector apparently).