Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Director: Taika Waititi

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett

Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.

When did Thor become slapstick? ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ contains an incredible amount of slapstick humor. In fact, not a single scene is without humor – in the process removing every inch of realism or suspense there might, should or could have been.

Speaking of realism, the film is absolutely loaded – and I mean loaded – with CGI. Every single scene contains CGI – lots of it!! And what is Doctor Strange doing here? Doesn’t he have is own movie? I hate it when characters cross over into other films (like The Avengers, Justice League, Iron Man popping up in Spider-Man and so many other superhero movies…yawn…).

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ is so fantastical, illogical and far-fetched – and that darn slapstick!!! – that I could only manage 30 minutes before hitting the STOP button. (How did I actually last that long??). It is very rare for me to dislike a movie to such an extent that I don’t finish it. As a result I can’t comment on the film in its entirety, but decided to do the review for reference purpose. From what I heard, the ENTIRE film is slapstick. Ugh, don’t think I’ll ever continue watching this…

‘Thor: Ragnarok’ was a huge box office success (I guess there are scores of people out there enjoying slapstick – unless it was a case of ‘curiosity killed the cat’.) The film earned nearly $854 million on a $180 million budget. Yikes!!

Would I watch it again? I couldn’t even finish it in one sitting, so probably not!