Back to the Cinema after missing a week due to the installation of our new bathroom and we went to see Thor, This is a film based on the Marvel Comic based on the Norse (And old Saxon) God of Thunder. The film is in itself as you would expect very formulaic. Thor is a young (A few Thousand Years old) and foolish Prince, Blah Blah, Cast out, Blah Blah, Lands on Earth, Blah Blah, Learns his Lesson.
This is not to say that I found the film bad as in actuality I did enjoy it but then I am a sucker for a bit of Marvel escapism, This film is the fourth set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (A shared setting for several Marvel films where they are free to cross over – The previous ones were Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Hulk with Captain America and The Avengers in the pipeline.)
Thor is played by New Zealander Chris Hemsworth who whilst he has the look of Thor it does lead to a few questions such as why would Thor have an antipodean accent (I would have imagined a Scandinavian/German tone to be more expected) or why when expelled back to earth he was expelled into the heart of the American desert a place where belief in the old gods or Germanic/Norse cultures has never been extensively practiced. That said the only member of the cast of Scandinavian decent (Stellan Skarsgard – Born in Sweden) has claimed to have never even heard of Thor.
Natalie Portman played Thor’s human love interest Jane Foster who has been updated from her comic book Nurses job to an astrophysicist, however thankfully she didn’t do any ballet or descend into any kind of madness so the entire film was a lot more uplifting than January’s Black Swan. The other supporting cast include Anthony Hopkins as Odin a pert which seems to suit him well and Tom Hiddleston as Loki who in Marvel’s telling of the Norse mythology is Thor’s brother and the Son of Odin, Although you will get no points from guessing who is the main antagonist between the tall blond god of Thunder and the Smaller dark haired god of Mischief.
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