The Xanadu stylings of the Thor world - glittery rainbow-coloured rollerskating paths leading up to a gold fob watch hanging in space called Asgard - crossed with the horned helmets, Elvin beards, and male bawdiness of Norse mythology, do not appeal but I persisted with this Chris Hemsworth-helmed number one of the
Marvel Thor series knowing one day I'd need to have watched it in order to grapple with the other two (read 'three', 'four', 'twelve'...) - 'Thor: The Dark World' and 'Thor: Ragnarok' - and apart from a Lord Of The BoRings taint to the all-male armies that are fighting to control 'the nine realms', this is very familiar in a just-like-all-other-superhero-movies kind of way (a blonde
Wonder Woman from an alien Themyscira ends up among humans being aided by a female Steve Trevor who shows the sort of immediate devotion to the potential lunatic that those women do who, a couple of letter-exchanges in, chose to marry their confessed mass-murderer-in-jail penpals), and it is all fine if slightly boring...but at least I am ready now to equally reluctantly watch the endless other Thors (but, full disclosure, I still need to wiki some aspects of the plot I missed along the way like who Idris Elba is, what exactly he is doing just standing there in space, and what on earth the nine realms are.)
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