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‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Is Hela Good The comic sensibility of director Taika Waititi – and a lush, airbrushed-van visual aesthetic – make this the funniest and prettiest Marvel film yet.
Ragnarok, an incontrovertibly bitchin’ word that refers in Norse myth to the final, winner-take-all smackdown between good and evil, is an awfully heavy subtitle for a movie as affably insubstantial as The Mighty Thor’s mighty third.
Catching us up on what your friendly neighborhood Thunder-God were doing while they were absent from last year’s Captain America: Civil War, the movie earns the backhanded compliment of being the best Thor picture by an Asgardian mile, and the more sincere one of being not in the least a chore to sit through.
Asgard has been invaded by Hela, the Goddess of Death, who is Thor and Trickster Loki’s previously undisclosed big sister.
Thor is quickly godnapped away by hard-drinking bounty hunter Tessa Thompson to the trash-planet of Sakaar, a Crayola-set-dressed spin on the Mos Eisley Cantina.
Thor really just wants to snap his aggro verde pal the Hulk back into his nebbishy scientist pal Bruce Banner and get each of them back to their respective homes, but they’re probably going to end up liberating the Sakaarian people on their way off-world because, as Thor frequently has occasion to observe, “That’s what heroes do.”