User blog comment:AustinDR/Thor: Ragnarok/@comment-2175012-20171107152053

will admit that while I did like Thor: Ragnarok, I will admit that it was too funny. Sometimes, it tried too hard to be when it should've focused more on the emotional scenes. For instance, when Asgard is getting destroyed, Korg says that there's a chance for the Asgardians to rebuild...only for the world to then blow up the moment he said that. I admit that I did find it kind of funny, but at the same time, this was a place that many Asgardians were raised in, where they settled down and had families. So to have a joke suddenly after the planet's destruction was in poor taste.

I also felt that the movie was borrowing some jokes from other Marvel films. For instance, Thor trying to summon his hammer, only for it to take a long time to come. It reminded me of that one scene in Iron Man 3 (if I remember correctly) where the same problem happened to Tony Stark. In fact, one sentiment that I do agree with to an extent is that now Thor's basically the Asgardian Tony Stark. Here he is making quips that would be usually reserved to someone like say Tony, which I feel unravels Thor's character entirely. With him swirling around on that chain, it was funny at first, but it immediately stops getting funny when the same joke happens around two times. Or there's a potential emotional moment between Thor and Loki whilst they're in the elevator that's immediately followed by Loki acting as if he's injured in order to deceive the guards. The humor felt too out of balance here.

Basically, the MCU has the opposite problem that the DCEU has, and that's comedy. While some scenes can be funny, they need to somehow balance the comedy with the more serious scenes much like how the DCEU needs to lighten up on the darker tone. Though, it also has a minor problem in addition to its grittiness, but I'll probably discuss it some other time.