It’s riotous entertainment, but don’t expect high drama. Although Taika Waititi includes all the monsters, fight sequence, and CGI mayhem that any fan could desire, there’s never a moment of suspense.
The Thunder God went for a ride/ Upon his favourite filly/I’m Thor! He cried/The horse replied/You forgot your thaddle, thilly!
This little rhyme has remained lodged in my mind from the day I read it in a Marvel comic, when I was still in primary school. This was decades before the Marvel Comics universe became a cinematic juggernaut, but even in those days, the Mighty Thor seems to have cut a slightly ridiculous figure.
