Early Reviews for Thor: Ragnarok
Thor: Ragnarok seems to have fallen into the typical, all too familiar, and now predictable, Marvel trope of telling non-stop jokes to sell movie tickets. Apparently just like every other Earth-ending, Universe-ending, event that we've seen in Marvel movies - the Apocalypse (Ragnarok) is just as hilarious!
Here's an excerpt from EW.com review by Chris Nashawaty, where he gives this movie a B, while simultaneously shredding it.
"There’s a lot more to the bloated story, but honestly, none of it is very interesting. In fact, it’s endless. You don’t care what’s happening or what’s going to happen next. We’re just led from place to place for a hash of foggy reasons that no one will ever remember 10 minutes after leaving the theater. But that’s not really the point of this movie. Ragnarok is basically a Joke Delivery System — and on that score, it works."
Peter Debruge from Variety.com has this to say:
"Back in the day, audiences had to wait a few weeks for Mad magazine to skewer the latest self-important Hollywood blockbuster. These days, Marvel sequels arrive as parodies of the earnest, self-respecting entries that launched each character (cf. “Iron Man 2’s” undoing of all that “Iron Man” established). If only that were an indication of the genre’s own impending Ragnarok — a sign that the entire phenomenon is about to implode, only to be reborn as something more worthy of the audience’s time and intelligence."
Ouch!Rotten Tomatoes has it at a score of 98% from the hand chosen critics who've seen the movie up to this point in time.
Random Angst will post our review soon after seeing the movie when it is released.