Thor: the Dark World

a Strong sequel.

Thor was probably the least succesful  film out of the standalone character movies released by Marvel, Ironman being the strongets & Captain America being the most heartfelt for fandom. However, the original film introduced us to the world of a mighty asgardian god whose game was fighting non stop. 

Out of the sequels, audiences were always placing the Iron man films in the spotlight and giving little room to Cap & Thor and perhaps that is why a Thor sequel did not sound so pretentious lowering expectations to the level of "an ok sequel". In spite of that, we're talking Marvel comics here, meaning things can always be surprisingly better.

Having just watched a premier screening, I am delighted to come away from the cinema to write a positive review. Thor: the Dark World is a spectacular special effect driven film, much of which is set in Asgard.

Thor chose Jane over this stunning lady!

I was worried that including Loki yet again might become a little repetitive, but in this film he excels as a great character, I only hope however that they don't overdue his presence in the Marvel Universe. How many times can this guy come back from the dead?

There isn't as much character development as the first film, and Thor's friends both asgardian and human are nowhere near as interesting as the character development we watched in the Avengers. I guess they simply needed these characters to all remain as they were so as to keep continuity within the Marvel universe, but its noticeable how little impact the storyline will have on anybody. Specially Thor's human friends who are there just as fillers.

One of the finest Marvel characters.

Loki has become Marvel's Joker.

The armies of Asgard were noticeably lacking in fire-power and weapons (even though they have an armory), which is made even more evident when an entire guard division bring knives to a laser-gun fight. Their turrets were the only defense they had against an Ariel assault and proved to be practically useless. You would expect them to be better prepared.

The healing powers of Thor, Jane, and even a smashed alien space-craft become a bit of a running joke as well. But at least they get hurt, even if it only takes them a scene to heal. And if smashing every column holding up a building is still not enough to take it down I'm not sure what will be.

Christopher Eccleston played a competent bad guy, although his intentions for what he was doing was still unclear as to why. Its simple to say he was insane and just wanted to kill everybody, but when a threat of that magnitude appears and planetary alignments are in effect, you expect half the Universe to show up and stop him or take advantage of the situation, or come looking to take the power for themselves. I also expected to see the entire army of Asgard come to help out at the end like they apparently did in the past. Not just Thor who appears there by mistake.

a darker force strikes.

Run bitch run!

The scientist with the miraculous plot saving devise is also a little hard fetch to take in, especially when he creates a remote control for cosmic anomalies. Along with Loki's illusion power which also serves as a convenient plot-saving devise at times. I'm willing to overlook these but there's no denying what they are.

Overall its a good enjoyable superhero movie, which you will want to watch several times and is a decent entry into the Marvel Universe. Far better than expected. Now all we are left with, is the big expectation for a good Captain America sequel as well. In addition, the now, classic "after credits scenes" suggests that there could be events leading to a third Avengers movie. I nkow it sounds crazy but, the tesseract is not the only powerful source in the universe. There are more, and there's one guy who collected them all and turned them into an "Infinity Glove". Yes peeps, anything can happen in the Marvel Universe of movies.

P.S. Watch it in 2D, The 3D added little of worth.Here's the movie trailer: