I think Thor: Love and Thunder is great, and here’s why
I feel like a lot of people bash Love and Thunder for being too jokey or tonal all over the place—but I think that criticism misses a key detail: the whole movie is essentially a retelling of the story by Korg to a group of Asgardian children.
Think about it:
• Korg is narrating the events, framing them for an audience of kids.
• That naturally makes the story funnier, more exaggerated, and even a little absurd at times.
• It explains why some scenes swing from heart-wrenching to over-the-top comedy—this isn’t “bad writing,” it’s how Korg would tell the story. He’s cheerful, funny, and uses humor to cope with trauma.
Once you view it this way, the tonal choices suddenly make perfect sense. Waititi isn’t just throwing jokes around—he’s leaning into the narrator’s personality, giving us a playful, colorful retelling of a cosmic adventure.
Honestly, I think that’s brilliant. And yet so many people just watch it at face value and don’t make the connection. If you see it as Korg telling the story, suddenly the humor, the exaggeration, and even the emotional beats all land beautifully.
I genuinely think Waititi did an amazing job with this, and the film deserves more credit than it gets.
Think about it:
• Korg is narrating the events, framing them for an audience of kids.
• That naturally makes the story funnier, more exaggerated, and even a little absurd at times.
• It explains why some scenes swing from heart-wrenching to over-the-top comedy—this isn’t “bad writing,” it’s how Korg would tell the story. He’s cheerful, funny, and uses humor to cope with trauma.
Once you view it this way, the tonal choices suddenly make perfect sense. Waititi isn’t just throwing jokes around—he’s leaning into the narrator’s personality, giving us a playful, colorful retelling of a cosmic adventure.
Honestly, I think that’s brilliant. And yet so many people just watch it at face value and don’t make the connection. If you see it as Korg telling the story, suddenly the humor, the exaggeration, and even the emotional beats all land beautifully.
I genuinely think Waititi did an amazing job with this, and the film deserves more credit than it gets.
Commentaires
One of the worst mcu films.
Sure he is a nordic warrior but it's not correct to always show him as a raging fighter, so the movie was like him discovering that there's more to life than just fighting for Asgard
What you said may be the reason for the goofiness, but it’s definitely not a good excuse and it definitely does not make the movie any better. It just means that the goofiness was intentional. It doesn’t mean that the goofiness didnt ruin Thor’s character, which is the main complaint of the movie.
The story is goofy (only in the first half really) because Thor has become sort of a parody of himself. He doesnt care about helping people, he's just going through the motions of what he thinks a god should be. What a "classic Thor adventure" should be. But he doesnt care about it, because he's sad and alone.
His experience with Jane giving him something to care about. And his experience with Gorr showing him that he's no better in his current state than the gods who don't take action to help the people who need them, pull Thor out of that overly goofy characature and into something a but more real in the second half.
Most takes on Love and Thunder agree that the movie did get better in the second half, which is, as it happens, where Waititi puts most of his comedic elements aside.