Before the universe came to be there was darkness, and in that darkness lived a race of dark elves. The leader of the dark elves ,Malekith, wanted to plunge the universe back into darkness, during an event called the convergence, where all the realms overlap and the lines between dimensions become blurred, so he created a weapon called the Aether to do this. A great war was fought between the elves and the warriors of Asgard. In the end Malekith sacrificed his people so he could escape, while the Aether was seized by Bor, father of Odin, and hidden away where no one should have found it.
It has been two years since Thor has destroyed the Bifrost, and in that time Thor has mourned the loss of his adopted brother Loki and pined over Jane Foster to anyone that has ears. To then find out his brother is still alive and trying to destroy the world his love is on, so he goes to Midgard, makes a whole bunch of new friends, beats his brother, and returns home, without making a stop to see his love. Now after the events of the Avengers, Loki has been imprisoned, Odin and Heimdall have restored the Bifrost, so Thor is set out to restore peace and order in the nine realms.
Back on earth Jane is trying to move on with her life, by going on a date, but is having trouble finding a way to forget about the man she hit twice with her car. Darcy interrupts the date, to tell Jane crazy science stuff is happening, and they rush off to investigate. Jane wonders where her colleague Eric has run off to in this exciting moment that they been looking for, not knowing that he was off at Stonehenge running around naked and getting arrested. Darcy takes Jane to an abandoned factory where a group of kids takes them to a temporal anomaly that they found. Jane wonders off and gets pulled through one of the anomalies that teleports her to an underground cave where the Aether is being stored. Janes curiosity gets the best of her and she touches the Aether, and it shoots out at her and possesses her.
Four hours later she wakes up back in the factory. On Asgard Thor is talking to Heimdall about the coming of the convergence, when Heimdall mentions that Jane doesn’t know it but she is studying it as well, when Heimdall realizes that he can’t see her anymore, and sends Thor to Earth to search for her. Thor finds Jane, and she slaps him for leaving and not contacting her when he came to stop Loki. Thor discovers that Jane is possessed and takes her back to Asgard to see what is wrong with her. Malekith is awoken by the activation of the Aether, and gathers his forces to retrieve it, sending a scout ahead.
Odin is displeased with Thor, for bringing Jane to Asgard, and Jane is shocked to hear that Thor has talked about her to his father. It is revealed that Jane is possessed by the Aether and that there was no way to remove it from her. Malekith’s scout has snuck into Asgard and set about causing a distraction so he can drop the defenses of the city, leaving them open to an attack. The attack came swift and brutally, but the dark elves did not retrieve the Aether, and they had to retreat. Thor hatches a plan to save Jane but needs the help of Loki to accomplish it, so he breaks him out of jail and the three of them set off to the Dark World to carry it out.
Plans go horribly wrong, and Thor has to stop Malekith before he unleashes the Aether on Earth. With the help of Jane, and her interns, Thor is able to save the day and stop Malekith, but not before delivering some hefty property damage to the city of Greenwich.
I very much enjoyed this movie, more so than most of the previous Avenger related movies, I would say this is in my top 2 of Avenger related movies. I quite enjoyed the fact it was set in England, and that the villain was the Doctor, attacking it for a change, it only would have been better if it was set at Christmas time. The movie was very serious, which I like in my comic book movies, if it gets too cartoony I feel the slightest pang of disappointment. A few observations though, the romance in the movie didn’t flow that well for me, but I get that it probably wasn’t a focus point for them when writing the script. Loki added just the right amount of humor, but they might have taken it one or two quips to far too quickly. The movie left us with many questions that have me very excited for what is to come next, but probably wont be answered until Thor 3, so we have a while to stew on them.
All that being said the credit scene had me a little confussed since im not too familiar with that character, but I look forward to Gaurdians of the Galaxy to explain more about it. The after credit scene I hope will be what is adressed in the next episode of Agents of SHIELD, but we will have to wait and see.
I give this movie a 4 out of 5
Written by Jeff Potts
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