Thor: Ragnarok

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Cast & Crew

Chris Hemsworth

Thor

Tom Hiddleston

Loki

Cate Blanchett

Hela

Idris Elba

Heimdall

Jeff Goldblum

Grandmaster

Tessa Thompson

Valkyrie

Mark Ruffalo

Bruce Banner, Hulk

Karl Urban

Skurge

Anthony Hopkins

Odin

Benedict Cumberbatch

Doctor Strange

Sam Neill

Actor Odin

Jaimie Alexander

Sif

Taika Waititi

Director

Eric Pearson

Screenwriter

Craig Kyle

Screenwriter

Christopher Yost

Screenwriter

Kevin Feige

Producer

Thomas M. Hammel

Executive Producer

Stan Lee

Executive Producer

Victoria Alonso

Executive Producer

Brad Winderbaum

Executive Producer

Louis D'Esposito

Executive Producer

Javier Aguirresarobe

Cinematographer

Joel Negron

Film Editing

Zene Baker

Film Editing

Mark Mothersbaugh

Original Music

Dan Hennah

Production Design

Ra Vincent

Production Design

Mayes C. Rubeo

Costume Design

Sarah Halley Finn

Casting

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Critic Reviews for Thor: Ragnarok

Audience Reviews for Thor: Ragnarok

• Mar 28, 2021

  MCU #17: The funnest Marvel movie of them all. MY GOD do I love this movie. After two middling Thor movies, Taika Waititi does James Gunn one better and makes Thor: Ragnorak the funniest and funnest MCU movie to-date. Chris Hemsworth seamlessly embodies Thor just as Robert Downey Jr. is as irreplaceable as Tony Stark/Iron Man. Hemsworth is so comfortable in the role you can't imagine anyone else playing the character. And damn if Tessa Thompson isn't the most bad-ass (anti-)heroine of the MCU -- she's like the Han Solo for Marvel. She's just fantastic. If Natalie Portman doesn't bring her A-game to Love and Thunder, (which she didn't to the first two) I'd like to start a petition that Tessa Thompson takes her place (without the horrible Valkyrie outfit). Cate Blanchett rips it as Maleficent (er, I mean Hela). I love the way she just makes Karl Urban her boy-toy. Without her guidance would he really have manned up and jumped out of a space ship double wielding machine guns?!?! The majority of the action and dialogue scenes with Hulk proves the point that the Hulk is SO much better as a supporting character than. Lastly, is there a better song to go with an action sequence than Led Zeppelin's "Immigration Song?" If so, I can't think of one.

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  mark b Super Reviewer
• Jun 06, 2019

  Visuals are low-budget but the comedic lines make up for it. Korg had me in stitches.

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  Super Reviewer
• Jun 06, 2018

  I've always marveled (heh...I hate myself) at how Marvel Studios has managed to create, maintain and handle their absolutely fucking massive cinematic universe. And I really do mean massive. Here's the thing, and I believe I've already mentioned this in one of my prior MCU reviews (only one on Letterboxd is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, I believe), and that's that not only do you have to make a movie that's enjoyable on its own merits, but you also have to make a movie that fits within the canon of the larger MCU and, at the same time, also hinting at future events that might not even play out in the same franchise that the hints happened in. You realize how difficult that actually is. To keep all of that lore, all of that mythology, all of those stories and characters in line to where it all makes, at the very least, a little bit of sense? I've certainly had my issues with Marvel movies in the past and, I'm sure, I'll continue to have them if they do something I don't enjoy. But I have to give respect where it's due and say that Kevin Feige and his team have done a tremendous job at making Marvel Studios the juggernaut that it is today. The thing is, they knew that building this into a monster would take time. This plan started with Iron Man ten years ago. They didn't rush anything, though they very well could have. They planted the seeds, slowly, for the eventual joining of the Avengers four years after the original Iron Man came out. Phase 2 leading to Age of Ultron which, honestly, didn't really blow me away. Phase 2 did have Guardians of the Galaxy and Winter Soldier (two of Marvel's best ever films), but every other film wasn't that great. Phase 3 is still going on as we speak and, really, might be the most commercially successful series of films of all time. And that's just if you include Black Panther and Infinity War, not including films like this one, Homecoming, among others. There's still three more films from Phase 3 yet to come. After Phase 3, who knows what comes next? Anyway, I suppose that's neither here nor there. We should probably talk about the Thor franchise, shouldn't we? In my opinion, of all the franchises (and I'm not including Avengers), Thor would have to be the worst of them all. That may be a bit harsh, of course, particularly given how good this movie actually is. I'll summarize my thoughts quickly, I thought the first Thor was kind of trash, possibly the worst film (in my opinion) in the MCU. The second movie, while forgettable in the grand scheme of things, proved to be solid popcorn entertainment. They really didn't put their best efforts forward, despite Thor having the best villain of the entire MCU not named Thanos and that is Loki. Though, to be fair, Loki has "switched" allegiances so many times that it's difficult to call him a full-on villain anymore. He's definitely an asshole, but he's an asshole that you like. I think Loki's days, unless some major retooling is being done, as a major MCU villain are done and he's now Thor's brother, whom he can never really fully trust. Anyway, the thing is that Norse mythology is so rich, and I really do fucking mean that (look at the recent God of War videogame) that, you'd think, they'd make for considerably better and epic movies than we've seen from the Thor franchise so far. Having said that, this brings us to Ragnarok. The film that RottenTomatoes' consensus stated 'sets a new standard for its franchise...and the rest of the MCU'. I'll accept the former, since the first two Thor movies weren't of the highest of standards to begin with. But to say that it sets a new standard for the MCU, I find this concept laughable. The reason I say this is, because, quite frankly, this is Thor's take on Guardians of the Galaxy. It takes place in another planet in, seemingly, another dimension. There's a wide cast of crazy characters, some of whom aren't human. Like Korg and Miek, who are great additions to the franchise and, really, the MCU in general. And they should do something more with them, even if it's something small like a webseries or something. Anyway, I don't compare this to Guardians in a derisive manner. To be quite honest, I find it refreshing that this movie put fun first and foremost on the agenda. While, obviously, there are better movies in the MCU, this is one of the more consistently fun movies in their entire universe. Having said that, however, this still fits very neatly within the type of movies that Marvel Studios allows their directors to make. Visually and tonally speaking, the film is very different from the Thor people know but, really, everything else plays nicely into Marvel Studios' hands. That's just the way it is. I know that that might sound like I'm "hating" on the movie, but it's not. Not to mention that I hate the term hater, which sort of implies that I can't have a valid opinion on something. The point is that there's nothing here that deviates from the Marvel formula, a formula they've perfected throughout the years. The problem with this formula, however, is that most movies end up coming across like police procedurals like Law and Order, where it features a different villain each week. Marvel movies are kind of like that, where a villain is featured in one movie and then they move on to something else. There's obviously more lingering baddies like Thanos which, again, the entirety of the MCU has been building to that showdown. But, because of that, the villains in the rest of the individual franchises within the MCU end up suffering. And, really, that doesn't really change with this movie. Hela, Odin's firstborn daughter and right-hand, who was banished when her ambition to take over the world outside of the Nine Realms drove her mad with power. There's an interesting story to tell there, particularly with how Odin built his empire on killing and destroying other societies. They explore some of that, for sure, but Hela is, really, kept in the backburner. Hela, essentially, has finally been freed as a result of Odin's death and she wants her rightful place on the throne. Hela grows more powerful the more she's in Asgard. She destroys Thor's hammer as if it was made of very a small block of ice. There's a few scenes where she's trying to find the key to the Bifrost, which is the sword Heimdall took...for one reason or another. But, again, she's not as much a focus of the narrative as you would expect given that, well, you know, she's the main villain of the film. The majority of the film is Thor, Loki, Hulk and Scrapper 142 (the woman who brings Thor to the Grandmaster as a bounty, who also happened to be part of one Odin's elite warriors, the Valkyrie, all of whom were slain by Hela) trying to find a way to escape Sakaar, a literal garbage planet run by the aforementioned Grandmaster. The Grandmaster holds these gladiator fights and his champion is Hulk, which is how he meets up with Thor, and, of course, they proceed to have a fight. One of the things you immediately notice about this film is the amount of humor on display. It's definitely a welcome change and having a director like Taika Waititi helps with that. While he's not credited as one of the writers in the film, I'm certain he had a lot to contribute in terms of tone, a lot of the jokes and some of the casting decisions. He also voices Korg. Like I mentioned, the narrative focuses on this motley crew leaving Sakaar, going back to Asgard and put a stop to Hela's reign of terror before she destroys everything Odin worked so hard to build. This is where one of the movie's biggest 'deviations', if you could call it that, come into play. Essentially, Thor has been having these dreams about Ragnarok and how he's meant to put a stop to them. Or so he believes. Given that Hela grows stronger the more she's in Asgard, he surmises that, in fact, they weren't meant to stop Ragnarok, they were meant to cause it. This is, in fact, the only way that they are able to stop Hela as once Surtur is summoned, a demon, he proceeds to destroy all of Asgard and, it's assumed, Hela along with it. The reason I say it's a deviation is because it's a pretty big change from established Thor lore, at least in the cinematic universe. This is the home of Thor and his people, whom he and his buddies saved by shoving them into this spaceship. I like this idea, and I doubt they'll actually do anything with it, of Thor and the rest of Asgard's citizens being nomads through space. And I say I doubt they'll do anything with this since they have set a course for earth. Which, honestly, isn't as exciting as Asgard being a spaceship that travels through the cosmos. This is the most exciting change an MCU flick has had in a while. Because, really, everything almost always is resolved by the end of the movie with a neat little bow. In this case, though, it's not and Thor's journey with the rest of his people is just getting started. Then again, I haven't seen Black Panther and Infinity War, so who knows how those films change the MCU. But still, I like that change and, again, I just hope they do more with it than just having Asgard already established at the start of the next Thor movie. The casting, really, is tremendous. I think the movie being considerably lighter in tone than even, really, most of the rest of the MCU rubbed off on a lot of the cast. Cause, really, Chris Hemsworth (who's really talented) just excels at the comedic side of Thor's character. Thor, as a character, hasn't always been the most interesting. By that I mean that he's just a God, who deals with his trickster brother and saves the world from destruction. I felt that his personality, in the first film (which, as I mentioned, I didn't like) was the best representation. He's just an arrogant God, who feels like his status as such should give him the authority to do what he wants. Other than that, there hasn't been much to the character in terms of growth. That is, at least, until this movie. Where, again, Thor is far more comical but, at the same time, there's the underlying notion that Thor is not worthy to fill his father's lofty accomplishments as the king of Asgard. And that, to me, is interesting. So I look forward to see how that is explored in future sequels, if there are any I mean. Tom Hiddleston is always great as Loki, so no complaints there. Mark Ruffalo, in as limited a time as he's in here, does a very good job as well. Tessa Thompson is a great new addition to the franchise and I look forward to seeing more of her. There's also a really fun cameo by Matt Damon, who acts as Loki in the play at the beginning of the movie, when Thor discover that Loki's been passing himself off as Odin while he sent Odin to an old folks' home on earth. There's many things you can complain about this movie, but casting is not one of them. It also helps that the script is as strong as it is, the dialogue and the jokes are constant. Some are misses, as is to be expected, but, by and large, the movie is very funny. As far as action is concerned, this movie is really exciting. Perhaps not mind-blowing action, but I had a blast. And, really, that's the one thing that you can also definitively say about this movie. I just had a blast watching this. If you're sick and tired of superhero movies then this really isn't gonna change your opinion. As far as how I would rate this movie. I honestly don't know, because it is a consistently entertaining movie from beginning to end, but I don't know if I ever felt that it was a great one. There was just, to me, never that moment that made me think 'damn, this is a great movie' and, really, you need at least ONE of those moments. Obviously helps if there's more, of course, but you need at least one of them. And there was never that one moment here. Maybe it's just me, but I still felt that this was a blast and a breath of fresh air for the franchise. It's not a perfect movie, by any stretch, and it doesn't break free of the patented Marvel formula, but I had a lot of fun watching this movie. Easy recommendation, particularly if you've got Netflix.

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  jesse o Super Reviewer
• Dec 30, 2017

  With a combination of poor special effects and a shortsighted plot, Thor: Ragnarok is a film that proves how Marvel are using illusive techniques to deceive their audiences into believing that the MCU films are durable.

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