Movies like Spider-Man: Homecoming, Iron Man 3, and the Guardians films are as much about their charismatic stars as they are their overlapping mythic universes. (The second movie, 2013’s Thor: The Dark World, was a little more of its own thing.) In a broader sense, Marvel has been trying to get more human-or at least more Hollywood. Watching the original Thor, which is only six years old, you’re reminded of a time when Marvel movies looked and felt like Michael Bay rip-offs, with the same sense of heat and metal, similar camera swoops, and the same unnerving sensation that everything meant to seem human is in fact artificial.
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Thor: Ragnarok is the third movie in the Thor franchise, but it’s the first in the series to give off the “What, me worry?” vibes that make the Guardians of the Galaxy movies worth the price of the admission. That’s about as camp as a Marvel movie is going to get. “Darling,” says Hela, with aristocratic verve, “you have no idea what’s possible.” “That’s not possible,” Thor says, as his manhood crumbles to bits. Hela, once her father’s right-hand woman, is powerful and wicked: She crushes Thor’s hammer like a frat boy crumpling an empty beer can. But Thor and Loki were apparently in the dark about that, and that era of the kingdom was long ago hidden away.
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Back in the day, Odin was much more merciless. When she ascends to the throne at Asgard, Hela tears away at the city’s facades to reveal the history of evil and conquest once proffered by Odin himself, with her at his side. Hela shows up in Ragnarok looking like she just set fire to her local Hot Topic, with hair and eyeshadow as dark and smoky as volcanic ash and a warrior crown-a gnarly headful of elk-like horns-activated whenever she runs her hands through her scalp like a shampoo model. It is both the most and the least Cate Blanchett role imaginable. If Thor, with his bold mane and booming demeanor, is arena rock, and Loki is skinny-jean punk, then the mischievous Hela, hell-bent on destruction with a wardrobe to match, is everybody’s worst goth nightmare. That’s Hela: goddess of death, stealer of crowns, and, so far as Thor is concerned, breaker of hammers. A king prepares to bequeath the throne to his eldest son when out of nowhere, his actual eldest child and true heir shows up and threatens to kill everyone. This time around, Thor loses his hammer to his older sister, Hela (Cate Blanchett), who’s stronger and, for a while anyway, smarter. That all gets undone by the end of the movie. Hilarity ensued by way of Thor losing his godlike powers, being exiled to Earth, and having his ascension to kinghood usurped by his twisted younger brother Loki. In 2011’s Thor, Odin’s son, played with meatheaded sincerity by Chris Hemsworth, was stripped of his hammer by his father. Who is Thor without his hammer? That’s not the only question at the center of Thor: Ragnarok, but it’s ultimately the only one that matters.