The film’s funniest moments are now legendary:
If the first two films were oil paintings, Ragnarok is a psychedelic heavy metal album cover . The 80s-inspired chrome titles and the legendary use of Led Zeppelin’s "Immigrant Song" created a "candy-coated" world that felt entirely fresh for Marvel. Review of Thor: Ragnarok Thor Ragnarok
What happens when you let a New Zealand indie filmmaker known for vampire mockumentaries ( What We Do in the Shadows ) loose on a $180 million blockbuster? You get Thor: Ragnarok . Waititi systematically dismantled everything that wasn't working. Farewell to the dark, gray palette of the first two films; hello to the technicolor junkyard planet of . The film’s funniest moments are now legendary: If
This narrative move inverts the standard superhero climax. Victory is not the preservation of the homeland but its orchestrated annihilation. By allowing Ragnarok to occur, Thor accepts the Nietzschean truth that the gods were never benevolent—they were colonizers. The film’s comedy thus serves a radical purpose: it prevents the audience from mourning Asgard as a noble loss. When the planet explodes, we laugh at Korg’s deadpan “The foundations are gone. Sorry.” The joke is the funeral. You get Thor: Ragnarok