I immediately looked at all the worst reviews (the 1 and 2 ratings) and I couldn't disagree with anything they said. This is Thor as "Frat Boy" with poor jokes. He was considerably more "Thor" in the first movie, with the nobility that is part of Thor's character. I knew as soon as I heard Led Zepplin in the first 10 minutes when Thor is fighting Surtur that this was going to be one of Marvel's more juvenile movies. I was not disappointed in my observations.

No point in mindlessly bashing it, but accurately describing it? That I can do.

1) Hela is not Odin's daughter. 2) Nobody can actually destroy Mjolnir: this was done strictly for the 15-year olds, who like to see punches, big arena fight scenes and endless ray guns shooting everywhere, and, 3) this just isn't Ragnarok in any serious sense. So, this is a teen comedy!

Which explains Skurge, the Executioner. In the movie, he behaves like a 14 year old, complete with toys, trying to impress the "babes." Everyone talks like they're on 20th century Earth. Is this so the viewing audience doesn't have to think at all? I guess it is. It reminded me of one of the 'Charlies Angels' movies, only with guys.

That said, no review that's not "RAH RAH" good will influence anyone who uses the word "awesome" at least 5 times a day. It IS entertainment, but entertainment that I can press "pause," make a phone call or three, or do a 10 minute meditation, read the New York Times, come back to this, and hit "play" again without ever feeling like I lost anything. There's no tension (as was pointed out in the 1s and 2s reviews), no character development (there's that "FratBoy Thor" again), and Cate Blanchett, for the one and only time, was an extremely banal Hela, whose hairstyle must have been done by the late Vidal Sassoon (but then, you'd had to have actually read Thor comic books to care about that, ) and that's why the poor reviews are (justifiably) poor.

As the late, great famous wit, Dorothy Parker once said of a play, "It ran the entire gamut of emotions from A to B." If you understand that, good. If you don't, then Thor is going to be okay for you, and there's nothing wrong with that! 87% of the audience on Rotten Tomatoes liked it.

Me? I'll take The Black Panther movie over anything else Marvel has put out, although the FIRST Avengers movie was quite well done (and completely unlike this).