Action/Adventure, 115 Minutes, 2011
Good movie. Took my son, he enjoyed it as well.
I never personally read Thor (or many Marvel comics, being a DC Universe kind of guy) so I had very little background to go on, but I believe they struck the right tone here. For fans of the other Avenger movies (“The Hulk”, “Iron Man”, etc) there are plenty of inside-jokes and the ever-suffering Agent Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. is given his largest role yet.
Action/Comedy, 119 Minutes, 2011
I really (REALLY) wanted to like this. In the end I just couldn’t.
I’m not sure why but more often than not Seth Rogen just has this ability to drain the joy out of things. I noticed it first and most dramatically in “Observe and Report” but also in “Funny People” and “Zach and Miri Make a Porno“. It’s odd because I actually would say, if asked, that I’m a fan of his. I like that he pushes the envelope; that he doesn’t go for the easy laughs. But just as often as this works, it fails and sometimes spectacularly so.
