Thor film takes audience on fun ride

Comedy takes a precedent over drama in latest series installment

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Bee Barto, Editor-in-Chief

Thor Ragnarok, has officially established that Marvel Studios can nail every movie they make nowadays. With significantly more humor compared to the past two Thor movies, you will find yourself smiling the entire time.

The past few Marvel Studios films have been just as astounding with movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man Homecoming and now Thor Ragnarok. In comparison to the last two Thor movies, Ragnarok is easily the best of the three, unusual for a sequel. Ragnarok, constantly makes fun of the mistakes the Thor series has made in the past, this movie very rarely took any moment too seriously. The plot easily could have been described in one throwaway line in the next film, something like “Oh, where were me and Hulk? Screwing around in outer space, what about you (insert literally any Avenger)?”

The plot of this movie was almost unnecessary. Instead, we got this beautiful character development for almost every role, and it was completely unexpected. It was a wild ride of purely random occurrences. Speaking of random occurrences, there is additions of characters like Korg, who cracks jokes at every moment, and derails every conversation he’s in. He easily could have been a throw away side character with some unimportant backstory. But he is a scene stealer, whenever an inkling of drama appears he is there for comic relief. Korg is beautiful, he represents everything that has improved in the Thor series: comedy first, drama second.

As shown in the trailer, the movie starts out with Thor, losing his hammer, and the return of Hela, the goddess of death. Thor is also reunited with his brother Loki, his fellow Avenger the Hulk, and a badass warrior from Asgard named Valkyrie. Together, they team up and work together to defeat Hela and stop Ragnarok, the destruction of Asgard. However, throughout the entire plot, no character ever takes anything seriously. There are also many small little points like, the brief appearance of Doctor Strange, the performance by Anthony Hopkins and the beautiful cinematography with scenes that look like oil paintings.

Overall, Thor Ragnarok was funny, beautiful, awesome and just an all around good time.