Hey. new Marvel, so new Marvel review!
First off, a lot has been made of this "just" being two hours, and yet... that works. It's amazing these days that you can tell a superhero movie in under ten years, but this gets a lot done in that two hours. Okay, some things are summarised or tokenised into one example scene, but mostly those are background details to get to the actual story being told.
Which is... pretty good. Thor goes on a journey to confront aspects of his past, but that could be any movie. The focus here is, of course, Jane Foster and it's great to see Natalie Portman back with something decent to do, so sure, more of that. That said, it would have been nice for Tessa Thompson to have more to do as well. I didn't even recognise Christian Bale beneath that makeup, but there's no mistaking Russell Crowe eating all the scenery.
One critique, Taika lays on the humour a little too much at times. Sure, the fun is funny but can adversely undercut some moments.
I'm sure y'all gonna go see this, but one final point of note: the running time seems to be either 119 minutes (google) or 126 minutes (imdb). As far as I can tell, mine was 119 (including credits), but maybe there might be different cuts around.
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