I'd had high hopes for Taika Waititi's new "Thor: Love and Thunder," but almost every review I've watched has taken a massive, steaming dump on the film. At first, it seemed as though the film was catching hate from righties who cringed when Natalie Portman gleefully called the movie "so gay," but according to another online commentator, the film was catching hate from the left for so-called "queerbaiting," i.e., tempting queer-friendly folks to watch the film and then not delivering on teh gey. One critic humorously said the movie was only 3-5% gay.
Below are two videos that are representative of the reviews I watched:
So the major complaints seem to be that (1) Thor is essentially a stupid oaf for most of the film; (2) the film relies primarily on comedy that isn't that funny; (3) the film's musical soundtrack doesn't match the action; (4) the story flirts with serious themes but undermines anything meaningful by always reverting to comedy. A common theme among critics was also that Taika Waititi took away the wrong lessons from the success of his previous "Thor: Ragnarok," which was funny, but which had a real story and a lot more gravitas. Waititi apparently thought that comedy—bad comedy—would be enough to bring the crowds in a second time, but these online critics, at least, aren't biting. Whether "Love and Thunder" does well in the long run is yet to be seen.
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