I finally got around to seeing Thor Ragnarok last week on our flight to New Zealand and I thought it was superb. Director Taika Waititi brought the relaxed humourous style that we say in What We Do In the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople to the Marvel universe. If you haven't seen it, I thoroughly recommend seeing it, ideally on a big screen rather than a little one on a plane.
I'm not going to write too much about the film because I don't want to spoil it. I thought the casting and acting was excellent and fitted Waititi's style perfectly. Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston adapted perfectly to the new style and Jeff Goldblum was the perfect choice for an eccentric dictator since he can be wacky without hamming it up too much.
I think the main reason I loved the movie was because it was extremely funny and had many references to Australia and New Zealand. The trailer had already shown the Skux Life graffiti Easter egg (a nod to Hunt for the Wilderpeople) but throughout the movie there were numerous in-jokes for New Zealand and Australian audiences (Waititi is a New Zealander, Hemsworth is an Australian). I won't spoil any of the good jokes (and I'm sure there will be more I notice on a second watch) but watch out for nods to The Castle, a famous New Zealand TV ad, and spaceships named after Australian cars among many other references.
I would be curious to know how non-Australasian audiences found the film. It was a big change of style for the MCU and they would be less likely to get all of the Australian and New Zealand references.
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