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Thor: Love and Thunder is a 2022 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is intended to be the direct sequel to Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film will be directed by Taika Waititi from a script he is co-writing with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman.

Thor: Love and Thunder premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on June 23, 2022, and will be released in the United States on July 8, 2022, as part of Phase Four of the MCU.

Plot
After the events of Avengers: Endgame, Thor finds himself on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced — a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who — to Thor’s surprise — inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher's vengeance and stop him before it's too late.

Why It Has Love and Thunder

 * 1) Amazing acting, especially Chris Hemsworth, Taika Waititi, Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman and, of course, Christian Bale.
 * 2) The soundtrack included several heavy metal pop-culture songs, such as "Welcome to the Jungle", "Rainbow in the Dark" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" that reflect the same aesthetic of the film with its "bombastic, loud, colorful palette".
 * 3) Jane Foster returns for nine years after The Dark World and this time, unlike in the previous Thor films (excluding Ragnarok), she has development in this film. She wanted to keep living on with the time she has left with Thor as the Goddess of Thunder before she passes away from cancer.
 * 4) Composed by Michael Giacchino and Nami Melumad, the musical score makes another worthy from Thor films.
 * 5) Great and fast-paced action scenes, like Thor and the Guardians fighting against a group of invaders while "Welcome to the Jungle" is playing in the background.
 * 6) We finally have a true representation of Eternity, and it's very comic accurate, though whether it's a piece of the true being or the entire being as a whole is unclear.
 * 7) The movie has the vibe as 1970s and 1980s sci-fi adventure flicks such as such as Conan the Barbarian and The Beastmaster.
 * 8) Audiences got to know how Thor and Jane got separated before the events of Ragnarok.
 * 9) Some people had of Endgame was that the film seemed to have forgotten about Stormbreaker's ability to summon the Bifrost. Here, it's explained that this method of using the Bifrost is unstable and using it without something to channel its immense power does not always make for smooth traveling, as Thor finds out the hard way.
 * 10) Funny moments like the Stormbreaker expressing jealousy as Thor lifts Mjolnir.
 * 11) Gorr the God Butcher is a cool and scary villain, who makes the best worthy villains in the MCU (both movies and Netflix shows). He was the one who seeks the extinction of all gods from the lost hope he had from them after the death of his daughter.
 * 12) * Gorr's design in the comics has a strong resemblance to Lord Voldemort's design in the Harry Potter film franchise. To avoid people immediately making that connection, the decision was made to change certain elements of Gorr's appearance whilst maintaining the same themes.
 * 13) * He was helped by the awesome performance as Christian Bale by making him popularity.
 * 14) * "All gods must die..."
 * 15) Four years after Avengers: Infinity War, it is great to see that Heimdall is finally back in the MCU in the post-credit scene where the character greeted the deceased Jane Foster in Valhalla.
 * 16) The Guardians of the Galaxy (minus Gamora), despite having a minor role, are pretty great here too.
 * 17) * Star-Lord has been more friendly towards Thor now. Even with giving him advice that "it's much shittier to lose your love." which was from the experiences and consequences of losing Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War.
 * 18) * Yondu's successor Kraglin Obfonteri also returned since his last appearance from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The scene where Thor is naked when Zeus take off his clothes is considered inappropriate for Marvel.
 * 2) *Besides, people that are SJWs and feminists tend to laugh and make fun of a nude man appearing on screen, but if it was the other way around (a woman appearing nude for a couple of seconds on a scene), there would be a immense outrage and backlash that can cause financial and cultural boycott of Love and Thunder. Showing how massive hypocrites the creators were.
 * 3) The film even attempted to pander to the LGBT community by making Korg gay as he became a partner of his species named Dwayne, even though it is a funny reference to the real-life wrestler and actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. At the same time however, the fact Tessa Thompson said once the movie would explore more of bisexuality of Valkyrie, the statement made some of the fans refuse to see the movie as they don't care about sexual orientations of significant Marvel characters.
 * 4) Even though it was great to see Lady Sif again on the screen since her cameo appearance in Disney+ Loki, she never appeared in a more significant role to help out Thor and his team, thus wasting her character, her potential, and her contributions.
 * 5) *Likewise, some other of the characters like Valkyrie and Korg were very underutilized, you can take them out of the story with not much changing. Gorr was also underutilized, considering her little screentime.
 * 6) The film has a lot of good characters including those introduced in Ragnarok, but without Odin, Loki, Frigga, the Warriors Three, and even Heimdall (though he did appeared on the post-credit scene), the nature of the film never felt the same as they had more chemistry with Thor and his allies in previous movies.
 * 7) In Avengers: Endgame, Thor appointed Valkyrie to be the new "king" of Asgard as he decided to join the Guardians of the Galaxy on their new adventures, and she carried out the role in leading the Asgardians in New Asgard. However, some people believe that Valkyrie does not deserve to be the Queen of Asgard as she, despite her good character development in Ragnarok, only abandoned the Asgardian people for several centuries following her first battle against Hela as she decided to renounce her title to live the rest of her life in Sakaar as someone who captured random people without second thoughts for the Grandmaster to make them kill each other for fun while constantly drinking to be drunk. Some fans believe that Lady Sif, instead of Valkyrie, should be the one to become a new monarch of New Asgard, due to her pure loyalty and selfless contributions for the Asgardian Royal Family and the Asgardian people for centuries.
 * 8) Some of the CGI doesn't hold up well; most notably, Axel's infamous floating head.
 * 9) Some of the humor and the tone can rather be hit-or-miss, which can sometimes cause tonal-whiplash.
 * 10) * Despite Gorr being a cool and scary villain, his presence, and dark backstory often clash in with the film's tone that's meant to be light-hearted.
 * 11) * Additionally, to some viewers, the film itself is simply a rehash of Thor: Ragnarok that mostly relies on comedy while only leaving two or three dramatic sequences.
 * 12) * The goat screams, while funny, are added in as a reference to the outdated goat scream meme, not helping matters is that Taika got the inspiration for the screams from an iconic video of some parts of the song "I Knew You Were Trouble." by Taylor Swift being replaced with the iconic goat scream meme.
 * 13) * Despite his great adventures to stop Gorr, Thor can be somewhat dumber than before in some occasions as he often did not go through his quest of inner peace which was supposed to be taken more seriously. Besides, Thor in this movie was supposed to keep his balanced personality similar to the one he showed in Ragnarok and Infinity War where he was a bit comedic and more serious in separate missions to stop Hela and Thanos. While Endgame did show that same personality, it was severely downgraded during five years after the Snap until his final motivating conversation with Frigga, and most people expected that Thor would finally go back to the same character he was in Infinity War. But sadly, this movie only made Thor look much more like a comic relief buffoon rather than the determined and authoritative warrior looking for true peace within his mind.

Reception
Thor: Love and Thunder was well-received, with praising the film's light-heartedness, humor, and the performances of Hemsworth, Bale, and Portman, although the script received some criticism. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 70%, with an average rating of 6.7/10, based on 140 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads: "In some ways, Thor: Love and Thunder feels like Ragnarok redux -- but overall, it offers enough fast-paced fun to make this a worthy addition to the MCU.". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

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Trivia

 * With the teaser trailer released on April 18, 2022, it is the shortest MCU film to received the trailers.
 * This marks the first Thor film to not feature Loki physically. However, a tattoo featuring the God of Mischief can be seen in Thor's back after Zeus leaves him naked.
 * This marks the second film where Christian Bale played a villain, as the first time as Patrick Bateman from American Psycho.
 * The movie has spawned most of internet memes, especially Gorr's appearance being compared to Lord Voldemort, Emperor Palpatine, Quan Chi, Death, and Uncle Fester quickly surfaced, upon his reveal in the official trailer.
 * After Gorr was officially revealed in the film's second trailer, many people took to making fanart depicting the God Butcher as Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, reenacting scenes such as the page image.