[Locke]

So since I saw Thor 2 at a staff screening that happened even before the advanced previews, I wasn't allowed to talk about it. Now the previews are behind us, I figured I could speak out.

Overall, the movie was okay. The thing about the first movie was Branagh brilliantly brought the Kirby Thor comics to life, managing to convincingly include every crazy aspect of those stories and art styles into one gorgeous whole...until the second half of the movie took place on Earth, where it appeared to have been filmed entirely on studio backlots and Branagh proved he had no idea how to stage a convincing action sequence to save his life.

Taylor on the other hand, was almost the complete opposite. Although Dark World is a gorgeous movie, with some incredibly impressive CGI effects, it has pretty much no visual identity of its own. Nearly every stand out visual is something Branagh had already created in the first movie.

However the big difference here is Taylor seems no stranger to action or the blockbuster and although he doesn't seem quite as tight on the Thor mythology as Branagh did, this feels much more like a superhero movie than the original Thor did.

Large quantities of Dark World take place on Earth, without ever feeling smaller for it. Dark World is a bigger, more epic, action packed....more blockbuster feeling version of the original movie. And honestly when it comes to superhero films, I think the entertainment is more important than the art.