A sense of humor has been present in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the very beginning, more or less poignant or delusional depending on how smart the writers are on a case-by-case basis and how appropriate the setting the filmmakers came up with. Because interpreters usually obey. And twenty-nine feature films and seven television series later, these superhero adventures continue to be the same in this regard since Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
But only three of his character-based film series are open comedies: volumes guardians of the galaxy (2014, 2017), deliveries Ant-Man (2015, 2018) and God of Thunder from Thor: Ragnarok (2017) thanks to the satisfactory intervention of the New Zealander Taika Waititiwho came because he teased us What are we doing in the shadows (2014) and who reprises his comrades James Gunn and Peyton Reed in their own case in the fourth film.
However, the humorous narrator he doesn’t always keep up with his jokes, just like the dramatic one, does not achieve very emotionally rich compositions in all its audiovisual plots. Even such fun geniuses as the Marx brothers, Billy Wilder or Woody Allen did not achieve this alone. This is exactly what happens to the director from the antipodes in Thor: Love and Thunderwhich so far falls short of them either in ingenuity or in the category of films.
Taika Waititi resurrected the adventures of the God of Thunder
Taika Waititi himself has already spoken out in an interview for the magazine Empire that he “wanted to delve a little more into that film’s drama and some of the more emotional aspects”, that he “loves it when people laugh and cry” in any of his films, such as overrated jojo rabbit (2019) but “doesn’t think he cried in Thor: Ragnarok“. And that was also not entirely accurate, because this feature film defends itself beautifully with his comic madness.
Actually, what really pleases us in the third film about the son of Odin, which is so far from the previous two, directed by Kenneth Branagh (2011) and Alan Taylor (2013) and correct, but not very interesting in terms of plot and aesthetic study, is that they brought this specific a saga of sad irrelevance and artistic lethargy in which she was immersed, giving her cheerful personalityobviously funny on a crazy level and with powerful sequences based on popular music.
D Thor: Love and Thunder continues the path that he also knows how to go, perhaps with more courage, James Gunn from guardians of the galaxy. The drama that Taika Waititi wanted to intensify with his new proposal doesn’t get in the way of the crazy fun. Nor, of course, undeniable liveliness or planning enthusiastic his choreography of actions, very different from classical rigidity and realism in the genre for its physical ideas, approaches and editing. Marvel included.
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Original solutions do not reduce the mortal sin “Torah: Love and Thunder”
However, there is no doubt that what is the essence of the villainCreepy Gorr Christian Bale we find much more attractive What are Hela Cate Blanchett’s intentions Thor: Ragnarok. Because of its emotional substrate, above all. With which the decisions of the New Zealand director, scriptwriter in the company of Jennifer Kaitin Robinson help to rise. above custom in the last section, after a decent final fight.
Enemies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are often impossible to redeem. and one of Thor: Love and Thunder Doesn’t look like it will eventually reveal itself as exception. The destruction and ripped lives they leave behind don’t make us think they deserve it, nor do they want it. But the hero manages to convince him by talking to him, and Gorr abandons his original destructive goal, the genocide of the gods, in order to get what he really wants.
And this, not forgetting the parallelism of his death with the death of Jane Foster, played by Natalie Portman. The double tragedy from which emerges positive and very unexpected situation for the god of thunder and spectators: foster parenthood. Thor loses a woman’s bitter love and ends up gaining the love of an unexpected daughter. But even this news is not enough. Because Taika Waititi’s smarts failed and no laugh so nice how Thor: Ragnarok. BUT mortal sin in comedy.
