THOR 4. The latest from Marvel studios, Thor Love and Thunder does not necessarily get the votes of French critics. Newspaper.
[Mis à jour le 12 juillet 2022 à 11h47] In cinema release this Wednesday, Thor Love and Thunder is the fourth film dedicated to the god of thunder camped by Chris Hemsworth since 2011. After two iterations (directed by Kenneth Branagh then by Alan Taylor) placed under the sign of the more or less Shakespearean epic, the Thor saga has been experiencing a renaissance since thor ragnarok directed by Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker who inspired him with his ironic and azimuth style. It is this same Waititi who canned Thor 4. We find there his humor and a desire to parody the genre of romantic comedy inside a superhero film. French critics do not seem particularly conquered.
For Pointdirector Taika Waititi “seems to have engaged the autopilot, like the whole team embroiled in this fiasco – actor included. We can certainly save the intruder from the crash Christian Bale, […] alone to breathe some life into his character”. The magazine believes that the headliner “Chris Hemsworth seems to have reached the limits of the comico-beta register imposed on him by Marvel since Ragnarok.” CinemaTeaser, who gave the film a rating of 1/5, believes that “in the hands of Taika Waititi, the divine Thor becomes a big piece of ironic kitsch where everything has to be cool”. However, the filmmaker “has no idea. Just small concepts, little jokes written on the corner of the table, frankly low-level 2.0 humor, and he wraps this already not very captivating story in a setting. totally sterile scene”.
In the columns ofWidescreen, Thor Love and Thunder obtains the note of 2.5/5. The first half of the film is strongly criticized: “Difficult to get involved in a story whose entire first act consists of unraveling, again, what has been established, to start from scratch”, “after almost an hour of film , Thor: Love and Thunder looks like absolute rout.” However, the specialized website, “Taika Waititi wakes up” in the middle of his film. “It is enough for Gorr to appear for the whole thing to suddenly come to life”. Like other critics, Ecran Large highlights “a plastically impressive sequence” (one that uses black and white). Despite all its flaws, “Thor: Love and Thunder stands out as the most paradoxical MCU chapter, and therefore certainly not the least interesting.”
The criticism of geek diary is also quite mixed despite the rather good rating of 3.5/5. If “Taika Waititi explores the schemes and clichés of romantic comedy to divert them”, the website dedicated to pop culture affirms that “all of this sometimes sounds a little wrong. Waititi’s grub is clever. We are sometimes sad and often hilarious, a pity that the agreement of the two is not as refined as one would have hoped. The calls of the foot are numerous, perhaps a little too much.” In the end, Thor Love and Thunder is described as “guilty pleasure. A romantic and heroic comedy which does not always measure its different inspirations, but which manages to imprint itself in our brains in search of escape”.
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Synopsis – Thor joins the Guardians of the Galaxy and goes on a quest to find his place in the world and inner peace. But when Gorr the Butcher of the Gods sets out to make the deities disappear, the God of Thunder is forced out of retirement.
Thor 4 has been long awaited by fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Entitled “Love and Thunder”, this fourth installment was to be released in February 2022. It was finally postponed by a few months. In France, it is from July 13, 2022 that we will be able to discover the new adventures of the God of Thunder in cinemas.
In the first trailer for Thor 4, unveiled on April 18, we can see snippets of the quest that awaits Thor. We discover our protagonist undertake an initiatory journey to find inner peace and his place in the world after the events ofavengers Endgame. But his adventures alongside the Guardians of the Galaxy will be interrupted by Gorr the Butcher of the Gods, who sets out to make the gods disappear. This fourth episode introduces for the first time in the MCU Mighty Thor, that is to say Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) wielding Mjollnir. We can see this superheroine at the end of the trailer.
On May 24, a second trailer for Thor Love and Thunder was released. This one is marked by the typical traits of humor of Taika Waitit. It is also the opportunity to discover for the first time Christian Bale in the guise of Gorr, the big bad of this fourth film dedicated to the god of thunder. The appearance is very mysterious but the character is already chilling. In the comics, Gorr goes by the nickname “butcher of the gods”. As the title suggests, Gorr hunts down deities to kill them whenever he can. In the Marvel comics, he regularly struggles with Thor trying to incapacitate him. Gorr had multiple iterations, some with superhuman powers, some not. In any event, Gorr has at least several millennia of combat experience and is skilled enough to duel against a god without issue. This promises great adversity for Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Mighty Thor (Natalie Portman).
In the casting of this fourth film centered on Thor, we obviously find Chris Hemsworth in the role of the god of thunder. Tessa Thompson is also back as Valkyrie. In the cast of Thor Love and Thunder, Christian Bale plays the role of the big bad Gorr, the butcher of the gods. The film also marks the return of Natalie Portman to the big screen of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Natalie Portman announced the news at Comic Con in San Diego. And this time, she’s the one holding the Mjöllnir hammer! An announcement all the more striking that Natalie Portman had not been seen in a Marvel film since Thor 2 (2013) and that she was thought to be angry with Marvel Studios. In the film, she is named Mighty Thor, in reference to the comic book series Mighty Thor written by Jason Aaron in which Jane Foster proves herself worthy of being the bearer of the legendary hammer Mjöllnir and the powers of Thor.
- Chris Hemsworth: Thor
- Natalie Portman: Jane Foster / mighty thor
- Christian Bale: Gorr
- Tessa Thompson: Valkyrie
- Taika Waititi: Korg
- Russell Crowe: Zeus
- Jamie Alexander: sif
- Chris Pratt: star lord
- Dave Bautista: Drax
- Karen Gillan: Nebula
- Pom Klementieff: Mantis
- Vin Diesel: Groot
- Bradley Cooper: Rocket Raccoon