THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Director Taika Waititi Wishes THOR: RAGNAROK Wasn't So Good

Thor: Ragnarok was a great movie and a hard Marvel film to follow up on. While I enjoyed the heck out of Thor: Love and Thunder, it wasn’t as good as Thor: Ragnarok. It could’ve been! But, I think the director went a little TOO silly at some points, and those moments kind of pulled me out of the film.

With Love and Thunder being released this week, director Taika Waititi talks about the movie and kind of admits that it’s not as good as Ragnarok, telling Rolling Stone, "In some ways, I kind of wish Ragnarok wasn't so good. Because this is a hard film to follow up that one with.”

It really is! I think he did a great job, though. I loved the story that Love and Thunder told. The filmmaker went on to say, "Because you're promising stuff to be like, 'Oh, it's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be bigger. It's gonna be more bombastic' I mean, I think it is. We've got a Viking ship that goes through space with two giant goats towing it. And two Thors and Russell Crowe. So what could be crazier than that this summer?" 

It definitely is a crazier film! But going overboard on the crazy did make it a better film. Waititi continued, "What I wanted to do, to push it in a different direction, was to make it romantic. They kind of touched a little bit on the romance stuff in the first two films, but they didn't really lean into the love aspect. And I was like, well, we've seen Thor in that big [Jack] Kirby-esque world of all the color and pop art in Ragnarok. What would the fans least expect? Thor in love! What do the fans not want? Thor in love! What would really piss the fans off? And we're doing that." 

I do enjoy Waitti's lively and funny sense of humor, and I think that fans are going to enjoy Thor: Love and Thunder. It takes fans on one insane and bonkers ride! You can read my review of the film here.