Thor: Ragnarok - Movie Review

Thor: Ragnarok is the third Thor movie and the comedy version of a MCU movie. The movie takes place two years after Avengers: The age of Ultron and is explaining the absence of Thor and Hulk in Captain America: Civil war. The story feels rushed as Thor starts of facing off Surtur a giant cataclysmic fire demon in a very weakened form. Surtur is normally a top level Thor villain but is reduced to a simple creep. This meeting with Surtur gives Thor a reason to return to Asgard using Bifröst which is working again unexplained, just to realize that Heimdall is gone and Loki is impersonating Odin. Thor and Loki then takes off to find Odin where they meet Hela who turns out is the main villain. From here it brings Thor and Loki on a detour to Grandmaster's planet Sakaar where they find Hulk living the life as a professional gladiator, who joins them in the quest to stop Hela.

The movie is filled with beautiful made action and fight scenes and a lot of gimmicks. It is a teenage boy sex fantasy of a superhero movie. It is fun but I find the story to be a stretch as a patch to bring back Hulk and Thor to the Avengers for the Infinity war. And unlike the earlier Thor movies, this one does not seemingly bring the MCU stories further in the grand story line. The first Thor introduces Thor, the second introduces an Infinity stone and this brings Thor back to earth.
My thoughts. Surtur is a character that surpasses Hela in power and would have been a better final boss than Hela was. And Hela is normally okay cool about being the ruler of the underworld, though she can get a bit bored now and then.  The destruction of Mjölnir does possible not make sense, in the first Thor, Thor looses his powers as Odin takes Mjölnir from him. On Mjölnir it reads something about the power of Thor belongs to the person worthy of Mjölnir but if Mjölnir is destroyed, it does not exist and therefore it can not bestow power. So Thor should not be able to use lightning. All planets apparently have the exactly same gravity. Original Norse mythology is supposedly not in the picture any longer since Fenrir is one Loki's children and not a pet of Hela. Besides Fenrir is supposed to eat the world. Executioner is normally also more of a badass.

So what I want to say is, that the movie is fun and great for what it is. But it is simple and could have gotten a way better story. In the small picture I want to give it four stars out of five. But in the big picture, I will not give it more than three stars as it is almost redundant for the MCU.