‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Review: Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman in a Sequel That Proves the Fluky Fun of Taika Waititi’s ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Was No Fluke
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Thor: Love and Thunder” has a pleasing, let’s-try-it-on-and-shoot-the-works effervescence.
Like most Marvel movies, the fourth entry in the Thor saga would seem to have weighty matters on its mind, starting with Thor’s hammer, the smashed fragments of which have been reassembled — and, more to the point, claimed — by Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), Thor’s old flame.
By possessing the mystique of that hammer, she has become the Mighty Thor. Not a superhero like Thor. She now is Thor — which, you’d imagine, might not sit so well with the God of Thunder himself.
Absent of hammer, he wields an enchanted ax called Stormbreaker, but sorry, it’s just not the same thing.Yet given that he hasn’t seen Jane since “Thor: The Dark World” (according to our hero, it has been eight years, seven months, and six days), and that he’d do anything to win her back, Thor is pretty good about playing the chivalrous supportive male and honoring the fact that she now possesses his brand.
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