Overall I thought it was decent.
The story is not as compelling as other Marvel movies and the villain's character depth was virtually non-existant. Thor has changed a bit since the last movie which is good and Loki was cool. I was hoping they would have spent more time with the other Asgardians though.
I had heard that there was too much humor in the movie and that is no lie. That's probably my main gripe with the movie. It tries to be funny way to much and at the wrong times. Some of the characters are really over the top when they weren't in the last movie.
On the positive side, everything you love about the previous MCU movies is in this one. It definitely fits well with the rest of the franchise. The ending left me interested for the next movie I just hope they dial down the humor.
If I had to pick I think I liked the first one better. If you saw it, what did you think?
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I'm bumping this to complain, [b]spoilers ahead.[/b] [spoiler]The humor is way too over the top, it's like watching a Romantic Comedy as it goes further on honestly. What with the romance with him and Natalie Portman, then with the girl that's with them, Kat is the actresses name I don't remember her character name, and all of that displaced throughout. And that second ending scene was just basically a "Thor is back, let's kiss" deal. Onto the other parts, I was mentally marking down things in my head as the movie went on that just didn't make much sense to me. So now Asgardians and the Dark Elves have space travel up and running it seems, and there are all of these guns and grenades getting thrown in in the first few minutes. Like when Avatar of Korra season 2 started, the sudden amount of explosives, cars, and so on just seemed off. The villain, Malekith? His ambitions are to just turn the universe dark and eliminate all light. That's really been done before, and is probably one of the most common ambitions for a villain in the past few years. The Aether, which should be Ether in my opinion honestly but I digress, seems like something I've seen before as well, it doesn't come to mind right now. And since I could ramble on and on about the whole movie, here's the rest of the condensed thoughts: 1. Thor's Hammer does odd things now, he hanged it from a coat rack when at Jane's house, when in the first movie he used it's infinite weight to hold down Loki, it doesn't weigh anything now? I would figure it just crashes to the ground since I don't recall that he had to chant any spell to make it activate, he just set it down. Whatever though. 2. The distortions happening because of the Convergence, hasn't the "planets aligning" business been done before? Except this time it's entire realms or worlds? Ehh. 3. The ships having near impenetrable cloaking, that you can't see them, until they go floating by. Heimdall couldn't see them they said, but when one started floating by him, then he took it down single-handedly. So why was it so hard to sense them but when in actuality their cloaking wasn't even that superior? Is this Star Trek now? And the several times ships crashed I kept thinking of Into Darkness as well. 4. The Dark World fight. Just...I don't know, Loki's Illusions shouldn't have been able to affect so much to where he could sever arms and such from things without causing harm and maintaining the Illusions, but I suppose that when he cut off Thor's arm with that pathetic excuse for a dagger and no blood spurts out even when it shows his bones and so on, I'm surprised Malekith didn't notice it. Then at the end of the fight with the Kursed, Loki "dies", and Thor just leaves his body there. I thought they fixed everything? Now he doesn't matter even when we had that giant rousing funeral for everyone at the beginning? Or was that just because Frigg died too? So the "not actual son" of Odin and her doesn't matter, so let's leave his body there, so the plot can inform us at the end of the movie that he's actually not dead. The [i]Not dead because the plot demands it[/i] thing. *sigh* [/spoiler] I could go on but these are the main things that I noticed and kept in mind, we'll see what anyone else says. And of course there were major spoilers in there so let's hope people paid attention to the warning.