Thor: The Dark World

Thor: The Dark World

Rating 6.5 out of 10

As anyone who has read my blog knows I like the superhero movies.  They don't need to be very complicated.  There is the good guy superhero.  Bad guy who wants to destroy the world.  Good guy battles bad guy to save everyone.  Maybe in some cases throw in a love story to make things even more interesting.  I like Thor as a superhero even though I don't really understand what all his powers are or what he can do.  I know he has a big hammer that causes big damage and if he swings it around very fast it can allow him to fly.  Chris Hemsworth is as perfect to play Thor as Christopher Reeve was to play Superman.

For me Thor just gets too complicated.  In The Dark World I liked the visuals, but the plot left me wondering what in the nine worlds was going on.  Best I could understand since Thor helped the Avengers save NYC he left the love of his life Jane Foster (the lovely Natalie Portman) for two years to clean up all the bad guys in the nine planets including Earth and Thor's home planet of Asgard.

Now as bad luck would have it when the nine planets align every 5000 years it enables really bad guys to control a black fog thing that can destroy everything.  Thor is out to protect Jane Foster and also enlists her brilliant mind to help defeat the bad guy, Malekith.  There is something with some worm holes that allow people or things to pop between worlds.  They also need the help of Thor's evil brother Loki (played very well again by Tom Hiddleston) as he is the only one that knows a secret passage.

The ending of the movie didn't make much sense to me.  The part after the credits made even less sense.  Still I found the movie entertaining in a visual sort of way.