Movie Review - Thor - Dark World

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2013 – Marvel Movies. - Spoiler alerts A rather disappointing sequel to the first Thor, and subsequent Avengers Assemble movie. The plot involves a standard fantasy collision of worlds (nine of them in this case), with an evil elven race escaping from a ark realm to leap around the multiverse through Time Bandits / Sliders style portals. London just happens to be one portal location. Their leader, played by a barely recognizable Christopher Ecclestone, has escaped from a Phantom Zone style prison vortex to wreak havoc. Thor’s girlfriend, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) gets infected by deadly elven magical poison, so Thor (Chris Hemworth) defies daddy Odin’s wishes and goes after the bad guys assisted by his trickster brother Loki, who cannot be trusted, but apart from lots of sparring banter with Thor, largely does behave himself. The dialogue between the two leads is all that saves this movie from total collapse. The battle rages confusingly from portal to portal, over several SFX world-scapes. The finale, after Loki appears dead, shows Loki pretending to be Odin, setting up for the next episode in the franchise (Thor Ragnorak). Playing too much on Loki making everything a big illusion is getting really old really fast. This was fantasy movie making by numbers. Arthur Chappell