You have an estimated $150 million at you disposal. You have effects teams, writers, good actors, 3D, and basically the entire Norse mythology to explore and use. And this movie is all you can do?

I expected a lot of this movie. There are a lot of nice stories and effects to be made exploring Thor, the god of thunder. This movie basically doesn't. If you read the studio's description of what the movie is about, you can almost figure out the entire main story line beforehand - it really is that unimaginative.

The 3D use is on the level of "oh, look, that postbox is closer to me than the supporting cast in the background, but everything else is flat", which really isn't impressive - or even worth the money to see the movie at a 3D cinema. Even the computer animated stuff looks flat - like it was projected on a surface at a particular depth.

There's a reason this movie premiered in Australia, Sweden and a select other European countries before the US - the studio hopes to at least be able to call it a "success in Europe" or post some favorable review from one of the perhaps more easily impressed countries.

If you have nothing else to do, this might be a DVD to buy in a year, but unless you are easily impressed by anything that says "3D", or have a serious crush on Natalie Portman or Anthony Hopkins, see something else.