In taking into account Thor: Love and Thunder, the fourth film

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The establishment focused on the Marvel Cinematic Universe's self important, siphoned up thunder god

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It's valuable to project your brain back to 2017's Thor: Ragnarok, its prompt ancestor.

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That film broke a shape that yearned to be broken — the two past Thor motion pictures, in particular

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The two of which came so weighted down with unmerited false gravitas they had individuals reexamining their takes on Iron Man 2.

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Honestly: Thor was superior to Iron Man 2, however its continuation, Thor: The Dark World, robustly stays the MCU's absolute bottom

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In any case, with Ragnarok, the dim (and stuffy) universe

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The Thor establishment burst with new light and variety and humor

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Credit chief Taika Waititi, who spiced up the procedures with a detachment that permitted rock-operatic set-pieces

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Which the banging of heads was joined by head-banging songs of praise to coincide with murmured, underplayed, frequently ad libbed comic exchange.

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