Avengers: Thor and Lonely

Chaos! That's the word that comes to mind when I see this picture. Chaos, and awesome.

There's no other way to describe this hodgepodge of different super heroes, many of whom have already starred in their own features. In the case of the Hulk, he's had two films with different story lines, actors, directors, approaches, etc. There's Jon Favreau of Iron Man, versus Shakespearean master Kenneth Branagh who directed Thor. All these mixtures could have blended together poorly, leaving dregs of mush at the bottom of the glass and a bitter aftertaste in your mouth.

But it came out beautifully! The feel of each separate super hero movie was present, while not stamping out the importance of any of the other super heroes.

Another aspect that intrigued me was the lone wolf-ish quality to each of the individual heroes. Iron Man has daddy issues that keeps him from bonding with people, along with his intelligence and bank account that probably keeps him from feeling relatable. Captain America is lost in time, and doesn't recognize the world or people around him. The link between these two men stands in Tony Stark's father. At first I think Tony Stark despises Captain America for having been a friend of his father, whereas Tony never felt appreciated in his father's eyes. Captain America finds Tony Stark to be just as brazen and unlikable as his father was. But they can't ignore that link, and when they call each other out and start to work together, they are more similar then they originally thought. It seems like they need each other, just as the group needs the different approaches to leadership that each man takes.

Of course, Bruce Banner is lonely. What else is new.

And Thor? Well he's "thor" (Sore. Get it? Aha... haha... ha) about what went down in his first movie, between Loki and himself. Although he admits that Loki and him were never similar, and that his brother is a psychopath and adopted, Thor wants to help his brother by bringing him to justice. In so doing, he must ignore the woman that he knew for three days, kissed once, and apparently has been pining for, all evidence to the contrary. (Thor seems a little flat in this movie to me, like a walking plot device to keep things moving along.)

Black Widow and Hawk Eye have their own issues to sort out, I assume. But I don't care enough about them to wonder as to what those could be. Probably their dealings with espionage and killings have estranged them from the world as well as from themselves. Whatever, they were kind of boring.

I commend Joss Whedon! He did a great job in making an interesting and heartfelt movie. I was clutching my heart the entire time, both thrilled and nervous for what the scene laid out before me.