Fourth solo film featuring the god of thunder, “Thor Love and Thunder” was released in 2022. The reception reserved for the film was not tender, neither by the press, nor by fans.
Superhero films are rarely haloed by glory by criticism or appointed during award ceremonies. But most always hold a special place in the hearts of the public, likeAvengers : Endgamecurrently a big biggest success at the world box office of all time. On the other hand, others released in the following years are criticized by criticism, but also some fans!
This is the case with Thor: Love and Thunderreleased on July 13, 2022 in the cinema. After the success of Thor: Ragnarokthis fourth opus (the second made by Taika Waititi) was expected from fans. But the success is not there: the film wins the spectators note of 4.7/10 on Metacritic, 6.2/10 on IMDB, and especially 2.3/5 on Allociné (the press is barely more generous, with a note of 2.6/5).
But why were fans so disappointed? Mainly because the expectations were great: many expected to discover the adventures of the god of thunder alongside the guards of the Galaxy, which he joined after Endgamo. Finally, this phase of his career is shipped during a sequence. The feature film is also mainly based on often grotesque humor: and this is what fans mainly criticize it, for shooting the film in derision and for making a mythological character a parody of himself.
Chris Hemsworthwhich embodies the title role, then reacted to the bad criticisms that the feature film was able to receive with Vanity Fair: “I think we had a little too fun. The film became too silly. ‘is always difficult when you are working on a project to have a hindsight. ” He also disowned his own service, ensuring that it became “a parody of [lui-même]”And that he failed to” ensure landing “.
However, we cannot say that Thor: Love and Thunder was a bitter failure: with 760 million dollars garnered, the feature film signs the second best score at the box office of the franchise featuring the god of thunder, and the 8th biggest success of the year 2022.
Thor Love and Thunder is the fourth film dedicated to the god of thunder camped by Chris Hemsworth since 2011. After two iterations (produced by Kenneth Branagh then by Alan Taylor) placed under the sign of the more or less Shakespearean epic, the Thor saga has known a renaissance from Thor Ragnarok directed by Taika Waititi, a New Zealand filmmaker who spun her ironic and azimuted style. It is this same Waititi that boxes Thor 4. We find her humor and a desire to parody the genre of romantic comedy inside a superhero film. French criticism does not seem particularly won over.
For The pointthe director Taika Waititi “seems to have started automatic piloting, like the whole embraced team in this fiasco – including an actor. We can certainly save the crash Christian Bale, […] Alone to breathe some life into his character “. The magazine estimates that the headliner” Chris Hemsworth seems to have reached the limits of the Comico-Bêta register imposed on him from Ragnarok. ” Cinemawhich gave the film the note of 1/5, believes that between “the hands of Taika Waititi, the divine Thor becomes a big piece of ironic kitsch where everything must be cool”. However, the filmmaker “has no idea. Just small concepts, little jokes written on a corner of the table, humor 2.0 frankly flush with the ground, and he wraps this story already not very captivating in a setting Totally sterile scene “.
In the columns ofWide screenThor Love and Thunder obtains the score of 2.5/5. The first half of the film is strongly criticized there: “Difficult to invest in a story, the whole first act of which is to unravel, again, which was established, to start from scratch”, “after almost an hour of film , Thor: Love and Thunder has tunes of absolute rout “. However, the specialized website, “Taika Waititi wakes up” in the middle of her film. “It is enough that Gorr appears for the whole to suddenly take life”. Like other criticisms, Screen Large emphasizes “a plastly impressive sequence” (the one that uses black and white). Despite all its faults, “Thor: Love and Thunder stands out as the most paradoxical MCU chapter, and therefore certainly not the least interesting.”
Criticism of Geek Journal is also quite mixed despite the rather good note of 3.5/5. If “Taika Waititi explores the patterns and clichés of romantic comedy to divert them”, the website dedicated to pop culture claims that “all this sometimes sounds a little false. The Waititi drum is malignant. We are sometimes sad and often Hilarious, a pity that the agreement of the two is not as refined as we could have hoped for. In the end, Thor Love and Thunder is described as “guilty pleasure. A romantic and heroic comedy which does not always dose its different inspirations, but which manages to print in our brains in search of escape”.
La Voix du Nord Specifies in his criticism that “Christian Bale plays a pretty convincing villain, since desperate”. However, the northern newspaper warns that the film is “to be reserved for ultra-favors nevertheless. The others are not likely to have love at first sight”. The Parisianas for him, describes an beginning of a film which gives rise to “a succession of paintings in the form of antics” and “grotesque postures”. Thor Love and Thunder “multiplies the more or less successful valves and anchors the film in a picky tone, until excess”.
On the site Numeramawe can read that “the director Taika Waititi succeeded in his main bet: to make us laugh every 5 minutes without we get tired of it. This is at the expense of the film value of the film”. According to this criticism, this fourth film dedicated to Thor “does not have much thickness”. However, the film enjoys a “frantic rhythm where everything takes place only for pleasure”. If Numerama announces that it has liked the film (which obtains the note of 7/10), the site encourages its readers not to expect “more than a comedy” deemed elsewhere “less solid than Ragnarok”. You are therefore warned.
Synopsis – Thor joins the guards of the Galaxy and goes in search of finding his place in the world and inner peace. But when Gorr the butcher of the gods undertakes to make the deities disappear, the god of thunder is forced to get out of his retirement.
- Chris Hemsworth: Thor
- Natalie Portman: Jane Foster / Mighty Thor
- Christian Bale: Gorr
- Tessa Thompson: Valkyrie
- Taika Waititi: Korg
- Russel Crowe: Zeus
- Jaimie Alexander: Sif
- Chris Pratt: Star Lord
- Dave Bautista: Drax
- Karen Gillan: Nebula
- Pom Klementieff: Mantis
- Vin Diesel: Groot
- Bradley Cooper: Rocket Raccoon