Thor (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #40 extract: Thor (2011)

Quite mediocre, but nonetheless good fun. 

The humour and a few of the characters keep Thor beyond bad. Thor and Loki are then played and written pretty well, and the comedy that revolves around them is pretty strong. However, all of the minor characters are written and played in a highly cliched and senseless manner. The same can be said of the plot: cliched and pretty senseless. And the direction... The constant, constant, dutch angles are truly ridiculous. I don't know how you could think they would work as a director. 

I think the biggest problem with this film is the fact that the director wanted to capture the comic books - which, from what I can tell, are quite dumb. However, that's a subject for another time. All in all, I had a good time with this, but it remains mediocre.