Thor: The Dark World (2013) Movie Review

Director: Alan Taylor

Writer: Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, Stephen Mcfeely

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston

The first Thor movie is definitely one of my favourite superhero movies ever and Thor is by far my favourite superhero ever but I didn’t manage to watch the sequel until a couple days ago.

The Dark World is a far more ambitious movie than the first Thor movie. The first was very enclosed. Broadly, there were about three locations in the entire movie. The sequel however has numerous realms and locations in Britain. The added ambition with this movie makes the movie rather confusing. I think that there was a creature called the Kursed One, which the rules of where never even mentioned (and I know there are rules because they said there could only be one more). Also, the main villain, Malekith, was completely confused in every way. In the generic opening narration, it is mentioned that he wants to plunge the Earth realm into darkness. The disembodied voice doesn’t explain why or really even how (they do mention a weapon called the Aether but not how it works or why). So much was left unexplained.

However, this film is almost solely brought back from the gripping hands of Valhalla by Tom Hiddleston as Loki. Everyone has said for a while that Loki is an amazing character but I had never really believed them. Having not seen this movie before, I know understand why he is so brilliant. He never struck me as the mischief god in Thor and The Avengers but the Dark World perfectly shows his constant mischief. He is just so enjoyable to watch. Also the fight scenes with Thor are great.

The second Thor movie is the more confusing and grander version of its older brother. A lot of things are left unexplained and are just generally unclear. Loki steps into the light and is fantastic from 

beginning to end and the fight scenes are delectable. Definitely worth a watch.

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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) Movie Review

Director: Joe Johnston
Writers: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Hugo Weaving

Captain America was one of the first Marvel characters to even be invented and this movie’s success seems to have warranted the production of a sequel so surely it must be good!

I did certainly enjoy this movie. As a superhero movie, it is pretty mediocre. This is not to say that the movie isn’t enjoyable to watch, it definitely is. While the origin of Captain America is pretty cliché, the story is told well. I don’t even feel like any of the characters were particularly poorly written or acted.

Adding to this, the movie features many small little Easter Eggs that most Marvel fans will recognise. Firstly, the premiere issue of Captain America’s comic is given a short clip in the movie. The cover of the comic shows Cap punching Hitler in the face. A fan-favourite character in the movie is Arnim Zola, a character who may or may not be in the second Captain America movie. He isn’t in his classic comic book form in the movie, which is slightly disappointing because I think that it would have looked hilarious.

The real problem with the movie is how unoriginal it is. This problem lies mainly in the origin itself. It’s yet another superhero origin that involves someone being injected with a super-serum. Sorry Captain America, I think Wolverine, the Lizard and Bane beat you to it! More than this the interactions between the characters were pretty poor. There is a moment in the movie when Steve kisses a girl other than the one who is in love with him. This looks like it would cause an emotional issue but is never mentioned again. I fail to see the point in that entire scene.

Captain America: The First Avenger is worth a watch if you want to stay up to date with the Avengers canon. It is certainly not the best movie made by Marvel it is surely beaten by Iron-Man and the Avengers. As a closing statement, the movie is worth a watch.