Convergence is a pleasing concept. Using this, the screenwriters have come up with a deft & tasteful sequel for our God of Thunder. Asgard is once again, a resplendent lovechild of computer graphics & fine arts, particularly the underground prison cubiculum & Heimdall's (Idris Elba) liquid escutcheon covering the entirety of the fortress. Also, one can never resist to say the Dark Elves armies & medieval times at Vanaheim are nice. Sometimes, the visual effects can be overburdening though.
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) teaming up with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is probably the aiguille of this saga! There's one freaking entertaining section in the movie that swaps between table discussion & actual execution to evade Asgard with Loki transmogrifying into Captain America (Chris Evans) as a joke! Both the brothers pulled off one hell of a twist-con plan to hornswoggle Malekith (Christopher Eccleston)! Loki's death is sad, but his resurrection at the end is gratifying! One wonders what happened to Odin, however. But thus far, this is the field Loki played real hard & captured everyone's hearts.
Frigga's (Rene Russo) demise clutches one's happiness, only to be lullabied by an astonishing funeral procession. Thor envying Jane's phone call with Richard, scientists toying with anomalies during the climax brawl that causes unexpected vaporizations into thin air between realms & Thor taking the subway to Greenwich are Marvel's cues of expertise in finding humor within serious situations that hits all the right nodes with the general audiences!
It's only the dubious expediency where Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), a character who's closely related to Thor contracting the Reality Stone within Aether that's mainly unsavory. Speaking of convenience, it's super random that the pair's right at the portal spot to draw them back to Earth in Svartalfheim, as with Foster vanquishing into space from nowhere to unearthing the relic at the Dark World.
Anthony Hopkins as Odin impresses as usual. Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis is nettlesome. The intern (Ian Boothby as played by Jonathan Howard) is useless too. While one starts to see a similar pattern of McGuffin-chasing in almost every super hero film by Marvel, it becomes understandable as all these stories bracket with one another to matrix the Cinematic Universe, in search for the 6 Infinity Stones.