Thor: The Dark World

Rating: 90%
Alright so I said I was going to review this one right after Digimon The Movie, so let's not waste anytime and talk about Thor: The Dark World!

Plot: It's about one year after the events of The Avengers and Thor has managed to bring peace back to the nine realms. But when Jane becomes possessed by a weapon called the Aether, Thor takes her to Asgard to try to heal her, only for Asgard to be attacked by an army of Dark Elves lead by Malekith who intends to use the Aether to cover the universe in darkness.

For me, this hit a lot of the beats for me as to what makes a very good sequel. Thor: The Dark World goes much further into the story and the all around world of Thor and Asgard then the first Thor film did with new twists and turns, and raising the stakes higher then they were before. If you were among the people who complained about Thor not being Thor in the first film, chances are, you're going to enjoy this movie. Because not only do we have Thor throughout the film, but we have him seeing Jane and her friends again, we have more of Loki being...well Loki, we go even further into the world of Asgard and its mythology with both the Asgardians and the Dark Elves and the action just gets bigger and better. The story was particularly impressive in terms of making things darker as well as giving us some decent twists during the second half of the film. I also really liked how we went deeper into a lot of the characters. Now granted, that doesn't mean there aren't some like Sif and at least a little bit Frigga could've been given a little more time. But it was great how we got so much from a lot of the other characters like Thor, Loki and Jane. My personal favorite example would be Odin considering how we got a little into how despite his wisdom and leadership, he does have the problems of also being over-confidant, stubborn and altogether foolish at times. The comedy is also very well done. Just like Iron Man 3 the humor became a very fun factor of the film, except this movie might've done better...at least in the extent that it had the kind of jokes that started to make me say "If I didn't know any better, I'd say the makers of these phase 2 films have learned a thing or two from Joss Whedon." Now the film does have some problems such as the main villain being one-dimensional, some scenes might've been a little to slow, and there was at least one subplot that went nowhere. Plus I do have one nitpick with how Asguardians generally use medieval weapons and yet have a couple of weapons that are more sci-fi in a way that makes me think of Return of the Jedi or Star Wars: The Old Republic. But when you look at this movie as a whole, you can easily look past all of that and see a sequel that does a great job at going bigger and better then the first while also giving us one or two reasons to look forward to one of Marvel's next films, Guardians of the Galaxy.

And that's my review for Thor: The Dark World. It raises the stakes higher, goes further into the characters and the mythology, has bigger action, and altogether just does all the great things that make a particularly good sequel while also getting us excited for the next Marvel film. It's a very fun and enjoyable Marvel film that I will probably get when it comes out on DVD and Blue-ray, if you haven't seen it yet, I recommend it.