{"id":5918,"date":"2017-11-03T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=5918"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:02:10","slug":"montreal-gazette-review-of-thor-ragnarok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=5918","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Gazette review of THOR: RAGNAROK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HAMMER AND SNICKER<\/h1>\n

Thor shows his wisecracking side<\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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  • cknight@postmedia.com twitter.com\/chrisknightfilm Chris Knight reviews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n
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    PHOTOS: MARVEL STUDIOS Chris Hemsworth has a rough ride in Thor: Ragnarok \u2014 he loses his hammer and, among other things, is forcibly barbered. But he does gain a sense of humour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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    THOR: RAGNAROK<\/p>\n

    \u2605\u2605\u2605 out of 5<\/p>\n

    Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Tessa Thompson Director: Taika Waititi<\/p>\n

    Duration: 2 h 10 m<\/p>\n

    In Norse mythology, \u201cRagnarok\u201d refers to an end-of-days cataclysm, like Armageddon, doomsday or Zac Efron films. But in the Marvel universe it may mean something akin to embarrassment or humiliation. In this movie, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) gets tied up, locked up, teleported, electric-shocked, captured, dumped, Hulked and forcibly barbered. He even loses his hammer, leaving him looking like a traveller whose Uber app just failed.<\/p>\n

    But somehow, he comes out of it all with a sense of humour, which is even more amazing when you recall that he didn\u2019t go in with one. In other stand-alone outings, 2011\u2019s Thor and 2013\u2019s The Dark World, as well as various ensemble pictures, he\u2019s the least jolly Avenger. Now he quips like he\u2019s been taking lessons from Iron Man.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s hard to know which writer to praise for this \u2014 Ragnarok has three, as well as the various \u201cbased on the comics by\u201d credits \u2014 so I\u2019m going to suggest we all hail Taika Waititi, the New Zealand director of such fun low-budget buffoonery as Eagle vs. Shark, What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.<\/p>\n

    Not only has Waititi made an impressive leap into the almost giga-dollar budget range (those other movies were made for about $5 million, combined), but he also appears as Korg, the deferential dungeon master on planet Sakaar, where the de-hammered Thor is taken to participate in gladiatorial games. Running the show there is Jeff Goldblum. He calls himself Grandmaster, though I don\u2019t think he has the mental chops for chess. In fact, his greatest skill seems to be that of trailing off in mid-sentence, a talent he takes to new …<\/p>\n

    Anyway, Ragnarok is just the latest in 2017\u2019s bumper crop of superhero flicks, which includes Marvel\u2019s Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming; DC\u2019s Wonder Woman and the upcoming Justice League. Not to mention (do we have to?) the underwhelming Dark Universe curtain-raiser that was The Mummy.<\/p>\n

    And while I know these movies are planned out years in advance, it feels like Thor\u2019s newest has lifted a page from Wonder Woman\u2019s playbook, with the inclusion of Tessa Thompson as SR-142, a hard-drinking Valkyrie from Thor\u2019s home world. Not only that, but Led Zeppelin\u2019s Immigrant Song, used in two separate battle sequences, sounds a lot like a certain Amazonian princess\u2019s theme music.<\/p>\n

    Ragnarok also introduces that Marvel rarity, a female villain, although Cate Blanchett\u2019s Hela looks to have built her wardrobe and decorating choices on those of Angelina Jolie in Maleficent \u2014 same basic costume with a bigger rack of antlers. She\u2019s Thor\u2019s twisted sister, but can\u2019t really compete with Tom Hiddleston\u2019s Loki, back from the dead and proving once again that if duplicity were a sport he would somehow both win and lose while cheating, playing by the rules and also making up his own.<\/p>\n

    Hela is the main plot driver, arriving on Thor\u2019s planet and threatening to take over, even as another more computer-generated baddie prepares to destroy the whole place. Thor has to get home and stop them.<\/p>\n

    All this and I haven\u2019t even gotten to Mark Ruffalo\u2019s turn as Hulk, who like Thor gets to be more loquacious and wittier within Ragnarok\u2019s shambolic buddy-picture framework.<\/p>\n

    He does not, alas, get to say: \u201cHulk more loquacious and wittier!\u201d<\/p>\n

    Waititi snags most of the best lines for his own character, including a naughty joke that will sail over the heads of any youngsters not versed in New Zealand or British sexual slang, and this lovely little axiom: \u201cThe only thing here that makes sense is that nothing makes sense.\u201d That\u2019s Ragnarok in a nutshell. Put your brain in neutral and enjoy!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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