{"id":21484,"date":"2017-10-29T17:51:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T07:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=21484"},"modified":"2017-10-29T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T07:51:27","slug":"thor-ragnarok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=21484","title":{"rendered":"Thor Ragnarok"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Taika Waititi
\nWriter:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Anthony Hopkins, Idris Elba<\/p>\n

S<\/span>uper hero films in 2017\u00a0have been pretty, pretty good.<\/p>\n

Fox Studios made one of the most interesting X-men movies to date when they turned\u00a0Logan<\/em> into a Western with mutants.\u00a0 DC finally landed themselves the positive word-of-mouth they were looking for when Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot hit it out of the park with\u00a0Wonder Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 And now Marvel should have every reason to be pleased with how\u00a0Thor Ragnarok<\/em> has turned out.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the Avengers movies, it is reasonable to expect some pretty major franchise fatigue to be setting in at this point.\u00a0 But by bringing on board Kiwi director Taika Waititi (Boy, What They Do In The Shadows, Hunt for the Wilder People<\/em>),\u00a0Marvel Studios\u00a0have a new Thor<\/em> movie on their hands that feels fresh, energetic and full of laughs.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0Thor Ragnarok,\u00a0<\/em>the thunder god Thor defeats the fire demon Sufur and unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that leads to Ragnarok – the prophesized destruction of Thor’s home planet of Azgard.\u00a0 To complicate matters further, Thor also has to negotiate some additional challenges which include:\u00a0 his father Odin’s abrupt death, his brother Loki’s unexpected return from the dead, his all-powerful and unstoppable older sister Hela’s plan to rule Azgard, the unexplained disappearance of his ally Heimdall, not to mention his sudden banishment to the planet Sakarr when he is forced into gladiatorial combat by the mad ruler Grandmaster.<\/p>\n

Safe to say, Thor’s having a bad day.<\/p>\n

The key to\u00a0Thor Ragnarok<\/em>‘s success is that the film retains the distinctive flourishes and unique sensibilities of a Taiki Waititi film.<\/p>\n

It hasn’t always been this way with Marvel Studios.\u00a0 Most notably, Joss Whedon, a film maker with his own readily identifiable style, appeared to have the Marvel juggernaut get the best of him with\u00a0Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em>, which was a loud, messy and unfocused film that didn’t really feel like a film that reflected the talents and voice of its creator.<\/p>\n

Thor Ragnarok<\/em> on the other hand, feels exactly like a major Hollywood studio gave a quirky director from New Zealand a shot at making his own super hero movie.\u00a0 And the results are fantastic.\u00a0 Thor himself is reinvented from being a semi-serious demigod who speaks Shakespearean English to now an exuberant, sharp-witted hero who has an infectious enthusiasm for whatever he comes up against.\u00a0 The supporting cast is ludicrous.\u00a0 Jeff Goldblum plays the Grandmaster as some sort of unholy cosmic amalgamation of The Dude from The Big Lebowski<\/em> and a blood thirsty Roman general.\u00a0 Cate Blanchett looks incredible as an ass-kicking goddess of Death who dons tights and has antlers (?) on her head.<\/p>\n

But stealing the show is Taika Waititi himself as the gladiatorial administrator and revolutionary-in-the-making Korg.\u00a0 Korg has the appearance of an armoured blue alien made from rocks but he is\u00a0voiced as a deadpan Maori comic.\u00a0 Basically Waititi just interjected himself into the film.\u00a0 And in the screening session I attended, he damn near brought the house down with his dry one-liners.\u00a0 “Piss off, ghosts!” seems destined to be the one-liner that this film is remembered for.<\/p>\n

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Bright, colourful, funny and unmistakably a\u00a0<\/em>Kiwi super hero movie in spirit, Taika Waititi’s\u00a0Thor Ragnarok<\/em> is the most fun I’ve had with a Marvel movie in ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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