Thor: Love And Thunder Makes The Case For Creative Freedom

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Now that Thor: Love and Thunder is finally out, fans are starting to make up their minds about the film. However, judging from early reactions, Taika Waititi’s second go at the God of Thunder already seems destined to go down as a very divisive MCU entry. Love and Thunder is indeed quite a lot like Ragnarok, nonetheless, that comes with drawbacks as well as benefits.

Some fans hold Thor: Ragnarok as their clear favorite, but Love and Thunder comes to represent something far greater for the long-term prospects of the MCU, as directors like Waititi start to gain further creative licenses over their work and stray just a bit further from the Marvel Studios formula. While some might not dig the style, the truth is that Love and Thunder doubles down on the same brand of humor that has made Waititi a household name.

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Make no mistake, Love and Thunder is hilarious at times. Waititi turns almost every single moment of the film into a smaller part of one huge joke, with a few exceptions on some of the movie’s more action-packed or emotional moments. Nevertheless, it’s that very same unrelenting commitment to comedy that somewhat hinders those bigger plot payoffs in the end.

This is Thor’s bro personality at its finest, thrown in the middle of what often plays like a romantic comedy that’s been put together out of nowhere by Waititi. Yes, Jane Foster is Thor’s sole romantic interest, but her role over the years was so diminished that Love and Thunder has to pull hard to convince audiences of just how special the bond and past relationship between the two really was.

It’s fitting enough that it’s Waititi’s own character, Korg, who happens to tell the space Viking’s tales to the audience because, in the