Against his father Odin’s will, The Mighty Thor – a powerful but arrogant warrior god – recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
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Film Cast:
- Thor Odinson: Chris Hemsworth
- Jane Foster: Natalie Portman
- Loki: Tom Hiddleston
- Odin: Anthony Hopkins
- Erik Selvig: Stellan Skarsgård
- Darcy Lewis: Kat Dennings
- Phil Coulson: Clark Gregg
- King Laufey: Colm Feore
- Heimdall: Idris Elba
- Volstagg: Ray Stevenson
- Hogun: Tadanobu Asano
- Fandral: Josh Dallas
- Sif: Jaimie Alexander
- Frigga: Rene Russo
- Isabela Alvarez: Adriana Barraza
- Jasper Sitwell: Maximiliano Hernández
- Frost Giant Captain: Richard Cetrone
- Frost Giant Sentry: Darren Kendrick
- Frost Giant Hailstrum: Joshua Cox
- Frost Giant Brute: Justice Jesse Smith
- Frost Giant Grundroth: Joseph Gatt
- Frost Giant Raze: Luke Massy
- Einherjar Guard: Matthew Ducey
- Einherjar Guard: Jason Camp
- Agent Delancey: Buddy Sosthand
- Techie: Blake Silver
- Agent Jackson: Jamie McShane
- Agent Garrett: Dale Godboldo
- Agent Cale: Patrick O’Brien Demsey
- SHIELD Guard: Jim Palmer
- Townie: Seth Coltan
- Townie: J. Michael Straczynski
- Townie: Ryan Schaefer
- Pete: Matt Battaglia
- Stan the Man: Stan Lee
- Drunk Townie: Joel McCrary
- Pet Store Clerk: Isaac Kappy
- Admission Nurse: Juliet Lopez
- Orderly: Rob Mars
- Viking Mother: Carrie Lazar
- Viking Child: Harley Graham
- Viking Elder: Alexander Wright
- Viking: Hilary Pingle
- Viking: Shawn-Caulin Young
- Guest: Walt Simonson
- Viking: Kinsey McLean
- Viking: Kelly Hawthorne
- Young Thor: Dakota Goyo
- Young Loki: Ted Allpress
- Frost Giant (uncredited): Douglas Tait
- Clint Barton / Hawkeye (uncredited): Jeremy Renner
- Nick Fury (uncredited): Samuel L. Jackson
- Viking Villager (uncredited): Vanessa Bednar
- Viking Village Wife (uncredited): Michelle Csitos
- Einherjar Guard (uncredited): Stephen Oyoung
Film Crew:
- Editor: Paul Rubell
- Casting: Sarah Halley Finn
- Production Design: Bo Welch
- Story: Mark Protosevich
- Comic Book: Stan Lee
- Producer: Kevin Feige
- Unit Production Manager: Patricia Whitcher
- Art Direction: Sean Haworth
- Original Music Composer: Patrick Doyle
- Director: Kenneth Branagh
- Costume Design: Alexandra Byrne
- Visual Effects Producer: David S. Dranitzke
- Set Decoration: Lauri Gaffin
- Special Effects Supervisor: Daniel Sudick
- Second Unit Director: Vic Armstrong
- Casting Associate: Tamara Notcutt
- Original Series Design: Jack Kirby
- Comic Book: Larry Lieber
- First Assistant Director: Luc Etienne
- Screenplay: Don Payne
- Casting: Randi Hiller
- Set Designer: Scott Herbertson
- Music Supervisor: Dave Jordan
- Director of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
- Supervising Art Director: Maya Shimoguchi
- Makeup Effects: Neill Gorton
- Story: J. Michael Straczynski
- Sound Recordist: Tim Gomillion
- Executive Producer: Louis D’Esposito
- Set Designer: Marco Rubeo
- Executive Producer: Alan Fine
- Executive Producer: David Maisel
- Co-Producer: Victoria Alonso
- Screenplay: Ashley Edward Miller
- Screenplay: Zack Stentz
- Contact Lens Technician: Connie Grayson Criswell
- Art Direction: Luke Freeborn
- Co-Producer: Craig Kyle
- Other: Stefán Karl Stefánsson
- Concept Artist: Simon Webber
- Creature Technical Director: Devan Mussato
- ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris
- Color Timer: Chris Regan
- Graphic Designer: Dianne Chadwick
- Set Designer: Kevin Loo
- Art Direction: Pierre Buffin
- Property Master: Russell Bobbitt
- First Assistant Editor: Robert Malina
- Dialogue Editor: Hugo Weng
- Costumer: Cheri Reed
- Art Direction: Kasra Farahani
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Nicolas Chevallier
- Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Ann-Maree Hurley
- Lighting Supervisor: Lucas Salton
- Costume Supervisor: James W. Tyson
- Hair Department Head: Lucia Mace
- Thanks: Walt Simonson
- Thanks: Sal Buscema
- Extras Casting: Wendy Washbrook
- CG Supervisor: Eric Fernandes
- Chief Lighting Technician: Cory Geryak
- Makeup Department Head: Luisa Abel
- Makeup Department Head: Edouard F. Henriques
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Vincent Cirelli
- Costume Illustrator: Christian Cordella
- Costume Supervisor: Dawn Y. Line
- Set Costumer: Anthony Almaraz
- Costume Supervisor: Angelique Paull
- Construction Coordinator: Randy L. Childs
- Music Editor: Christopher Benstead
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Andy Nelson
- Assistant Costume Designer: Robert Wojewodski
- Set Designer: Tex Kadonaga
- Set Designer: Anne Porter
- Set Costumer: David Fernandez
- Set Costumer: Mara Herdmann
- Supervising Sound Editor: Richard King
- Art Direction: A. Todd Holland
- Script Supervisor: Kerry Lyn McKissick
- Thanks: Louise Simonson
- Set Designer: Aric Cheng
- Compositing Supervisor: Darren Poe
- Set Designer: C. Scott Baker
- Camera Operator: George Billinger III
- Costumer: Mina Amirzai
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Paul Butterworth
- Set Designer: Jeff Markwith
- Assistant Art Director: Richard Bloom
- Graphic Designer: Zachary Fannin
- Set Costumer: Bob Moore Jr.
- Visual Effects Producer: Kelly L’Estrange
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Daniel P. Rosen
- Camera Operator: Mitch Dubin
- Construction Foreman: Randy Severs
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Kilou Picard
- Set Costumer: Valentina Aulisi
- Visual Effects Production Manager: François-Xavier Aubague
- Set Designer: Patte Strong-Lord
- Set Designer: Rich Romig
- Still Photographer: Zade Rosenthal
- Set Costumer: Sean Haley
- Digital Intermediate Editor: Devon Miller
- Concept Artist: Ron Mendell
- Wigmaker: Alex Rouse
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Anna Behlmer
- Visual Effects Producer: Diana Giorgiutti
- Additional Still Photographer: Mark Fellman
- Visual Effects Editor: Jeremy Bradley
- Visual Effects Editor: Danny Rafic
- Visual Effects Editor: Cameron Sharp
- Set Costumer: Jesse Trevino
- Costume Illustrator: Constantine Sekeris
- Art Department Coordinator: Sara M. Pennington
- Visual Effects Producer: Steve Griffith
- Set Costumer: Yvonne Bastidos
- Aerial Director of Photography: Douglas S. Holgate
- Best Boy Electric: Stephen Mullen
- Visual Effects Producer: Jonathan Harb
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Kathy Siegel
- CG Supervisor: Votch Levi
- CG Supervisor: Pavel Pranevsky
- Steadicam Operator: Pete Cavaciuti
- Steadicam Operator: Henry Tirl
- Rigging Gaffer: Mark Mele
- Wigmaker: Natasha Ladek
- Visual Effects Producer: Jason Bath
- Visual Effects Editor: Chris O’Connell
- Digital Intermediate: Michael Dillon
- CG Supervisor: Karl Denham
- Camera Operator: Kim Marks
- Costumer: Shelli Nishino
- Hair Department Head: Janice Alexander
- Sound Designer: Michael Babcock
- ADR Supervisor: Petra Bach
- Costumer: Gia Jimenez
- Set Costumer: Myron Baker
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Sumriti Bhogal
- Rigging Gaffer: Charlie McIntyre
- Costume Illustrator: Tully Summers
- Key Hair Stylist: Carol Pershing
- Construction Coordinator: Walt Hadfield
- Makeup Effects: Roxy D’Alonzo
- Head Greensman: Dan Ondrejko
- Lighting Technician: Derrick Esperanza
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Agnes Rama
- Camera Operator: George Stephenson
- Set Costumer: Elizabeth Lancaster
- Lighting Artist: Tyler DeLisle
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Wesley Sewell
- Sound Recordist: Ryan Cole
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Kelly Port
- Visual Effects Editor: Shawn Broes
- Visual Effects Producer: Pierre Escande
- Aerial Camera Technician: Eric Dvorsky
- Unit Production Manager: Don Zepfel
- Camera Operator: Guido Frenzel
- 2D Sequence Supervisor: David Rouxel
- Visual Effects Producer: Nicolas Delval
- Art Department Coordinator: Andres Cubillan
- Costumer: Pablo Borges
- Associate Producer: David J. Grant
- Wigmaker: Bob Kretschmer
- First Assistant Editor: Leslie Webb
- Costumer: Jacqueline Shulman
- Key Rigging Grip: Kent Baker
- Costumer: Andrew Slyder
- Set Costumer: Edward T. Hanley
- Costume Illustrator: Benton Jew
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Edouard Valton
- Sound Mixer: Peter J. Devlin
- Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Larry Sushinski
- Chief Lighting Technician: Rick Thomas
- Camera Operator: Patrick Rousseau
- Animation Supervisor: Eric Petey
- Set Designer: Andrew Reeder
- CG Supervisor: Richard Sutherland
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Caroline Audebert
- Set Costumer: Michael Welch
- Ager/Dyer: Dennis McCarthy
- Compositing Supervisor: Joel Behrens
- Lighting Technician: Dara Norman
- CG Supervisor: Audrey Ferrara
- Key Costumer: Timothy A. Wonsik
- Costume Illustrator: Warren Manser
- Second Assistant Director: Greg Hale
- Lighting Technician: Jesse Mather
- Gaffer: Gabriel Lewis
- Creature Technical Director: Walter F. Hyneman
- Property Master: Stephen McCumby
- Costumer: Rudy Rojas
- Visual Effects Editor: Kevin LaNeave
- Costume Illustrator: E.J. Krisor
- Construction Foreman: Jerry Sargent
- CG Supervisor: Noah Vice
- Digital Effects Supervisor: Justin Johnson
- Visual Effects Coordinator: David Masure-Bosco
- Visual Development: Ryan Meinerding
- Costumer: Marjorie K. Chan
- Extras Casting Coordinator: Maryellen Aviano
- Set Costumer: Joy Ramsay
- Best Boy Electric: Miguel Sánchez
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Katie Godwin
- Costumer: Michael J. O’Brien
- Visual Effects Editor: Isabelle Capgras
- CG Supervisor: Marc Lamorille
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Cameron Neilson
- CG Supervisor: Julien Trouchet
- CG Supervisor: Xavier Allard
- Ager/Dyer: Rhonda Earick
- Contact Lens Painter: Cristina Patterson
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Ruheene Masand
- Graphic Designer: Andrew Campbell
- Compositing Supervisor: Mark Richardson
- Compositing Supervisor: Brandon McNaughton
- Lighting Technician: Ryan Huston
- Extras Casting: Mariann H.W. Lee
- Lighting Technician: Steve Zvorsky
- Costumer: Emily Dominguez
- Visual Effects Producer: Chris Antonini
- Visual Effects Coordinator: John Meunier
- Digital Intermediate Producer: Jacqueline Rosado
- Costumer: Janis Mekaelian
- Concept Artist: Kurtis Richmond
- Production Assistant: Trinh Tran
- CG Supervisor: Anne-Sophie Bertrand
- Contact Lens Technician: Jessica Nelson
- Key Makeup Artist: Perry Mike Germain
- Concept Artist: Wes Louie
- Construction Foreman: Donald Redoglia
- Construction Foreman: Greg Newton
- Camera Operator: Denis Moran
- Gaffer: David Kagen
- Lighting Technician: Tom Howard
- Animation Supervisor: Raphael A. Pimentel
- CG Supervisor: Julien Aullas
- CG Supervisor: Yann De Cadoudal
- CG Supervisor: Boris Duong
- CG Supervisor: Nicolas Gauthier
- CG Supervisor: Yann Le Corre
- CG Supervisor: Loris Paillier
- CG Supervisor: Nolwenn Rimbault
- CG Supervisor: Gregory Ginsburger
- Compositing Supervisor: Sam Cole
- Creature Technical Director: Patricia Pawlak
- Creature Technical Director: Adam Sidwell
- Lighting Supervisor: David Verbeke
- Matchmove Supervisor: Brian Tolle
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Vicky Morris
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Katie Spinelli
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Kathryn Fowler
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Tanissa Potrovitza Schoen
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Sébastien Blanchard
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Delphine Colin
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Maxime Delorme
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Jocelyn Vincent
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Emily Williams
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Hélène Saint-Riquier
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Marguerite Moreau de Lizoreux
- Visual Effects Coordinator: McKenzy Germain
- Visual Effects Producer: Audrey Tondre
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Danielle Costa
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Nicolas Nepveu
- Casting Assistant: Molly Green
- Casting Assistant: Gina Gallego
- Costumer: Lori Angelo
- Costumer: Dante Fontana
- Costumer: Noel Leonard
- Costumer: Gilbert Montes
- Costumer: Danielle Wait
- Costumer: Alison M. Schmidt
- Seamstress: Sevil Karagezyan
- Set Costumer: Paula Trujillo
- Set Costumer: Mark J. Weitzman
- Set Costumer: Bradford Booth
- Set Costumer: Allison Fusaro
- Tailor: Luis Jiminez
- Tailor: Julio Medina
- Tailor: Jorge Hernández
- Visual Development: Charlie Wen
- Thanks: Olivier Coipel
- Thanks: Ralph Macchio
Movie Reviews:
- ohlalipop: The movie was not great. I don’t like action movies that much but I’m expecting some good fighting scenes since this is a Marvel movie. I was disappointed. It was mostly talking and I don’t understand half of what the actors were saying. I should watch this with subtitles next time.
- Gimly: **A long format review from 2011**
So, Thor has only been out for a week and a half, and already it’s grossed $100 million! Pretty fucking good considering it hasn’t even been released in America yet, where like, every movie ever makes most of its money. As you may have guessed, yes, I did finally get around to seeing le Thor, hence the delay in my review of The Incredible Hulk. But know what? Fuck you man! I just watched fucking Thor!!
So in case you couldn’t guess, I was rather damn impressed with it all. Why? Well boys and girls, strap your tolerance boots on, this one could get long.
The Computer Graphics were some of the best I’ve ever seen. Now I’m not one to believe that CGI is the sort of thing that could make or break a film, but having it be this fantastic goes quite a ways to helping out. I also was unfortunate in my having to watch it in 3D, and yet it was worth it. This is a pretty big statement from me. I despise 3D… I even walked out of the cinema not feeling nauseous. A tad headache-y sure, but that was it. So congrats Thor.
The comic relief was powerful. In that “funny but not silly” kind of way. I mean, it’s all a bit silly, but it would have been so easy to fall into the cheesy trap with this film. The writing team and director Kenneth Branagh (The Boat that Rocked, Sleuth, Hamlet) did a fantastic job of keeping the audience engaged and not descending too far into shameless, lame, self-parody.
The characters of the film were written almost as strongly as they were in Iron Man 1 & 2, not quite, but they did have quite a number more to work through, so they couldn’t work with everyone as well as they did with Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. They also managed to totally pull off an American movie with romance and comedy, in a way that totally avoided those awful American Romantic Comedies (my least favourite genre in the history of ever).
There’s this whole thing where Thor comes from another world. Which was after all really the only way you could bring a God into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has been so grounded in reality. And I’ll tell you, Asgard (Thor’s home planet) was fucking great. They pulled off this crazy similarities in appearance between family members on Asgard, despite the fact that none of the actors are related. You may disagree with me on inspection of posters and whatnot, but after seeing the movie, you’ll get what I mean. Also the actors they got to play the younger Loki and Thor were eerily believable. Like, to an actually kind of scary point. I wonder if any of it was fake… The Frost Giant homeworld of Jotunheim is also visually stunning.
The sound effects were very confronting. I couldn’t really figure out if I though this was a good or a bad thing… It’ll be interesting to rewatch on DVD, and see if it was only so crazy because of the speakers in the theatre. Thor may have lacked the wholeness as a film felt by Iron Man 1 & 2, or The Incredible Hulk, but it was perfect as a lead up to The Avengers, which, now that it’s all set in stone, is really kind of needed. With Thor more than the other heroes it’s the most important, because there was really no way to humanise that sort of character, he’s just so outlandish that you really need an entire film just to ground him in this world they’re developing.
But all of the things I’ve had to say about the film were basically leading up to this one big thing; the cast! The cast was incredible, not only did they manage to snag a total of THREE of my favourite underrated actors ever, one of them just so happened to my favourite actor in the whole wide world, Ray Stevenson!
We have Australian (fuck yes Australia!) Chris Hemsworth (Home and Away [Hey! We all have to start somewhere, right?], A Perfect Getaway, Ca$h, Cabin in the Woods) playing Thor, Natalie Portman (Black Swan, V For Vendetta) playing Thor’s love interest; Jane Foster (lots of people have started having a problem with Natalie Portman nowadays, but I still love her), Anthony Hopkins (The Rite, The Wolfman, Beowulf, Red Dragon, Hannibal, The Silence of the Lambs [Yes, this is the same guy who played Hannibal Lecter. I fucking know, right!?] Bram Stroker’s Dracula) as Thor’s father; Odin, Stellan Skarsgard (King Arthur, Exorcist: The Beginning, Beowulf & Grendel, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Angels & Demons) as Dr. Erik Selvig; Jane Foster’s mentor, Ray Stevenson (Rome, King Arthur, Outpost, Punisher: War Zone, The Book of Eli) as Thor’s friend, and member of the Warriors Three (above); Volstagg, Jeremy Renner (S.W.A.T., The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 28 Weeks Later, The Hurt Locker, The Town) as Hawkeye; the S.H.I.E.L.D. sharpshooter, and Samuel L. Jackson (The Exorcist III, Jurassic Park, Jackie Brown, Shaft, Pulp Fiction, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, S.W.A.T., Snakes on a Plane, 1408, Cleaner, The Spirit, Inglourious Basterds) as S.H.I.E.L.D. Director; General Nick Fury… And those are just the actors I already adore.
I’ve now also grown quite attached to Tom Hiddleston (Wallander) who plays Loki, Thor’s brother, and the main antagonist, as well as Joshua Dallas (Doctor Who and The Descent Part II) who plays another of the Warriors Three (above), and Kat Dennings (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Defendor) who plays D’arcy Lewis; Jane Foster’s friend and colleague.
As I always like to say, I watched this film in a theatre (Belcompton, shit, uh, Belconnen, Hoyts to be specific). I really think this film has lasting value, but it’s important to note that I almost always feel a film is enhanced when watched on the big screen, especially with Action films, effects films, epic films and franchise films. Thor happens to be all of those things. I was especially excited waiting for the post-credits scene to come up in that huge cinema. So please take into consideration that I reviewed this on the silver screen, if you happen to be watching it on DVD or BluRay or some such. Because you better of not fucking downloaded it!! Damn scum…
80%
-Gimly
- tmdb44006625: I was surprised to see Kenneth Branagh directing a big budget comic book film, but as the film continued to explore a Shakespearean tale between two brothers feuding, the relationship with their father, and a coming of age love story, I realized this is exactly the kind of movie Kenneth Branagh would make.
I really enjoyed Thor. It was funny, exciting, and different from the usual superhero ilk. And it definitely got the MCU back on track after the dismal Iron Man 2.
- Justin Lopez: I haven’t seen Chris Hemsworth act in any other film and this is the first time I’ve seen him in action, but I gotta say he really did justice to this role. Big thumbs up to Marvel for doing a great job on this casting!
- LoganWright: Chris Hemsworth plays a great god of thunder! Much like how Downey has molded into his character, Iron Man, Chris has done the same thing too as Thor.
- BradleyStewart: How Asgard was explained and how Thor came to be was explained really well. One of the better superhero origin stories for sure.
- Jane Hall: Not a big fan of the action sequences but story-wise, this film did great. It really explains how Thor came to be and why he is the person he is now.
- JessieCollins: It’s like Thor was actually made to fit Chris Hemsworth rather than the other way around! Marvel couldn’t have done a better job at casting than this!
- John Smith: One of the most original origin stories out there!
- 1RobertJohnson1: I didn’t expect to like Thor as much as I did. Marvel sure knows their characters and they demonstrated that expertise by creating a superhero film that’s a mix of Marvel comics and Norse mythology. Good job!
- MichaelWilliams: Both Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston showed that they can be among the star players in the film industry worthy to be included in this movie.
- WilliamJones: Tom Hiddleston is such a great actor! Chris is pretty great too but Tom has such a mesmerizing aura whenever you see him on-screen that it’s hard not to be absorbed by the film.
- DavidBrown1: Both Loki and Thor make such a huge impression on screen. The two actors who portrayed these gods are surely top-tier!
- JosephWilson: Impressive superhero film that goes well with the Iron Man solo movies that Marvel has released.
- richardmiller: I loved how Chris Hemsworth did justice to the Norse God of Thunder. He is truly made for this role as much has Tom is made to be Loki.
- ThomasMoore: Great storytelling and depiction of how Asgard looks. Additionally, they did an awesome job in setting up Thor’s family dynamics.
- JeffreyYoung: Not a bad movie for the first film in a trilogy.
- JacobKing1: I would give it a 7/10. A good superhero flick but I know they can do better than this.
- NicholasLopez: There’s a delicate balance between comic book fantasy and Norse mythology in this film and they were able to lay it all out perfectly.
- StephenScott: It’s immensely enjoyable and goes well with the Iron Man solo films.