Asgard Kingdom welcomes the powerful god Thor back after the difficulties he had to face in The Avengers. He discovers the presence of new powerful horrific villains whose intention is to destroy the Earth. He is bound to begin a new journey preventing the planet from the catastrophe, the worst journey one could ever experience. Though eventually he gets reunited with Jane Foster, having sacrificed everything he had.
There's more action this time around, and less deliberate manipulation of the Marvel universe. The result is a film that flows better and gives the characters a little more room to be themselves.
Though hardly a must-see, Thor: The Dark World is better than the original: a looser, loopier hybrid of science fiction and fantasy powered by a pair of magnetic performances and leavened with a number of truly witty moments.
Save for Hiddleston's too-brief supporting turn, this is mighty forgettable stuff, a by-the-numbers sequel to what was already the slightest and least entertaining of the 'Avengers' components.
The ambitious Game of Thrones-esque mythology can't mask the fact that this superhero entry is just another piece of mildly satisfying, disposable entertainment.
While Thor's journey may be the weakest of the Avengers' tales - this entry nevertheless improving upon the first - it remains essential to the context of the whole.
