Thor: Love and Thunder Feels Strained And Familiar

Consider Thor: Love and Thunder, the fourth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It helps to recall the 2017 Thor: Ragnarok film.

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People immediately rethought their assumptions after watching those two Thor movies.

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The Thor franchise opened its eyes to a dark and fusty world in a two-part series containing screams and comic lines.

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Despite an odd idiosyncratic fuel mixture, Waititi's Homecoming is back.

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For the wheel's treads, replace Cate Blanchett's Hela with Christian Bale's Gorr the God Butcher.

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In Love and Thunder, Bale brings soulful malice where Blanchette brought sneering camp.

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Portman and his hammer Mjolnir are all about having fun. It's been a while since she got to goof around with Mark Ruffalo's Hulk.

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There is more of what audiences liked about Ragnarok, jokes, and Korg in this title, but it feels familiar, safe, even rote.

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A Marvel Universe fixture appears as both an abstract concept and an actual character.

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