A little too much cheese and cartoony. *spoilers*

What makes Thor:Ragnarok work very well is it came out of the blue and everyone was serious in their self-deprecating comedy. It was nuanced and not overdone and fit the tone well.

Now, if you keep overdoing the sarcasm and silly humor, it will start to get irritating.

That's what happened here. It was them getting carried away a bit too much imo. Thor should be a lot more serious and the chars around him also seem to be too casual. It's like S8 of a hit show where the actors/actresses are just not putting in their effort and are just coasting.

The new chars are also caught in this like Zeus - he was fun but a bit over the top with his Russian accent for a Greek and weird way he was with orgies and making Thor naked and the women ogling and then sighing when he's covered back up. I mean, this is like inappropriate. Imagine if the 2 women were stripped naked and the guys sigh when they're covered back up. It would be like rape type situation comparisons.

Also killing Zeus but not actually was ridiculous. The whole motivation of the God butcher is not delved into. He just walks around with his kid and then she passes away and he's on a rampage and accidentally gets some necro sword and starts killing gods and Zeus says they were lowly gods. WTF? Zeus and all are ok but carefully no modern gods are present. Felt out of touch imo. I mean, why not, if you're gonna turn some people's gods into cartoony heroes/villains, then why not the rest?

And I'm sick of every male actor's superhero having a female actresses superheroine equivalent. I mean, give it a rest. Superman/Supergirl, Batman/Batgirl/Batwoman, Hulk/She-hulk, Thor/Lady Thor, Spiderman/Spidergirl/Spiderwoman etc. But there's no equivalents for women created ones like there's no Catman nor Wonderman etc. This balance is not really there, it's more like idiocy in creating chars. (And I say this as a liberal Democrat).

The acting was just sub-par, the plot was comedic more than serious despite the material being interesting. They should've gone the serious route with vengeful gods like Zeus and some chars being killed permanently (looking at you Korg), no juvenile silly jokes with the goats and all, no Jane Fonda/Jodie Foster bs, Matt Damon bit etc.

It felt like stale recycled bread than fresh stuff. Thor is in great shape and looks like a god. Now they've made him cartoony and silly instead of serious that he was in Avengers/Thor movies mostly.

Christian Bale's motivation isn't explained and he could've simply talked it out and maybe Thor would've helped him get to the Eternity introduced figure (whoever that is now, clearly higher than Zeus and others). Russell Crowe could've been really great as a deviant Zeus with his acting chops as a serious guy. I mean you have Gladiator and Master and Commander of the Far Side of the World being made a joke. Valkyrie is a great char but made to look like a silly lesbian, Jane Foster is overdone and should be retired imo, Korg is overstaying his welcome tbh. The lone thing good are the lovely visuals and Heimdall was stellar imo for the few short bits at the end of credits. He truly felt like a god like Thor.

Let's hope the next one is better.

I rate this 6.5/10.