Thor: The Dark World

The first Thor was a pleasant surprise that added some depth to Thor and his homeworld of Asgaard that was welcome and rather impressive to me. Anthony Hopkins and Rene Russo are heavyweights to place as Thor's parents and Hopkins is awesome as Odin. Loki was introduced and is outstanding played by Tom Hiddleston. Somehow they had Natalie Portman play his love interest. Stellan Skaargard plays a crazy scientist, ALL are excellent in the first one. ALL reprise their roles, but for some reason it DOES NOT work in the second go around. It's so weird, but everyone isn't as good really. Idris Elba is if I'm getting technical I suppose. The story follows Thor as he works on bringing peace to the 9 realms Asgaard oversees/rules over essentially. Thor is still in love with Portman and checks on her from afar. Loki is imprisoned and Russo (His Ma) is the only one who cares at all. There is some crazy ancient evil called the Aether that makes no sense and is really half-assedly explained. The ancient race that once tried to rule the 9 realms with THE AETHER, but Odin's Pappy stopped them. A few survived and that's enough to pose a threat on the world thousands of years later. Once again, not explained for shit. There's some general candy-assed fighting and the story as I said before is insanely far-fetched and weird to me, AKA total bullshit. It really seemed unenthusiastic this time around. Bottom Line: 6. 7 out of 10. I was generally unimpressed by this effort after an impressive run of superhero movies that actually were better than expected. Too much weird cosmic stuff going on that is ridiculous. Pretty much ruined this thing for me.