The Thor: Ragnarok Rotten Tomatoes/Critic's Reaction Thread - Part 1

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[Finarfiniel]

Okay everyone, embargo lifts tomorrow so it's time to start this thread. In the words of Valkyrie, "HERE WO GO!"

Thor: Ragnarok Rotten Tomatoes Page

 

[HammerDown]

95%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 173
Fresh: 165
Rotten: 8

"Despite all these big personalities stuffed into a two-hour film, Thor: Ragnarok is an airtight affair that skilfully plays to each actor's strength."

Marwa Hamad
Gulf News (UAE)

"Visually, Thor: Ragnarok is by far the most Jack Kirby-inspired entry in the MCU films, and thank Odin for it."
A-

Joe Gross
Austin American-Statesman

 

[Surfer]

95%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 173
Fresh: 165
Rotten: 8

This sums up how I feel that it has now dropped to 95%. Lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=31g0YE61PLQ

Surfer

 

[HammerDown]

95%
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 178
Fresh: 170
Rotten: 8

"While Marvel movies have explored some heavier emotion, Ragnarok is the kind of roller-coaster ride I can get behind. Its exposition isn't too heavy, and it rarely goes more than a few minutes without delivering a thrill, a laugh or both."
4/5

Brad Keefe
Columbus Alive

"Waititi has managed to do something with Thor: Ragnarok managed to do something with the character no director has managed to do yet: make us look forward to seeing him again."
8/10

Allyson Johnson
The Young Folks

"At a fundamental level, Marvel jams enough high-spirited entertainment into the movie to ensure that it's worthy of the price of admission."

Brian Lowry
CNN.com

"[Has] a comic spin even in the action scenes... in a genre that often seems more intent on pummeling you into submission than giving you a good time, its light, breezy approach is a breath of fresh air."
B+

Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

"The plot is chaotic and the pacing is bizarre (scenes are unusually short and fast). But it's undeniably a riot."

Anna Leszkiewicz
New Statesman

"By making Thor: Ragnarok as much a comedy as an action movie, Waititi brings some needed lightness to Marvel's storyline."
3.5/4

Sean P. Means
Salt Lake Tribune

The whole cast is great. When you have Idris Elba in a relatively minor role of the all-seeing protector Heimdall, you know your ensemble is stacked.
3/4

Max Weiss
Baltimore Magazine

 

[iEquinox]

This sums up how I feel that it has now dropped to 95%. Lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=31g0YE61PLQ

Surfer

Our reaction to a score like that should be the opposite. We're turning into spoiled brats :P

Also, the uploader of that video misspelled Ragnarok!

 

[Surfer]

Our reaction to a score like that should be the opposite. We're turning into spoiled brats :P

Also, the uploader of that video misspelled Ragnarok!

No, I know. It's just I put so much emphasis on it reaching 97%, and then it did, and now it has tumbled by 2%. So you know had to make a thing out of it, but I am not really disappointed as much as just having fun.

This movie is doing exceptionally well and even if it ended in the low 90's I would still be amazed that we are surrounded by so many great Marvel films.

Surfer

 

[iEquinox]

No, I know. It's just I put so much emphasis on it reaching 97%, and then it did, and now it has tumbled by 2%. So you know had to make a thing out of it, but I am not really disappointed as much as just having fun.

This movie is doing exceptionally well and even if it ended in the low 90's I would still be amazed that we are surrounded by so many great Marvel films.

Surfer

I knew you knew :P

Was the uploader's username just a funny coincidence? Or did your choice have something to do with his fitting name? lol

 

[HammerDown]

95%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 181
Fresh: 172
Rotten: 9

Most fun since Guardians of the Galaxy. Director Waititi brings the offbeat, weirdo charm of What We Do in the Shadows to Marvel.
A minus

James Verniere
Boston Herald

It was only two years ago in Avengers: Age of Ultron that we started to see what a gifted comic actor Hemsworth is, so it makes eminently good sense for this entire movie to be played as a comedy.

Kristian M. Lin
Fort Worth Weekly

1 more rotten.

The balance of humor and action has become so one-sided that Thor: Ragnarok could use a laugh track.
2/4

Kirk Baird
Toledo Blade

 

[HammerDown]

95%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 185
Fresh: 176
Rotten: 9

The intoxicatingly strange brew - the third "Thor" flick, and fifth Marvel film that the Norse god has appeared in - gets nicely stirred by quirky New Zealand auteur Taika Waititi...
2.5/4

Tom Meek
Cambridge Day

Increasingly, it's obvious that much of the Marvel universe works best when it goes big and silly: Thor: Ragnarok is about as big and silly as a Marvel movie is ever going to get.
4/5

Anthony Morris
sbs.com.au

"This is a colorful mashup of Scandinavian myth, interplanetary sci-fi, Old Testament references, and crossover comic book characters."

Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader

 

[Iceman]

200 not far away at all and it's barely fallen.

 

[HammerDown]

95%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 182
Rotten: 10

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

TOMATOMETER

94%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 194
Fresh: 183
Rotten: 11

 

[Iceman]

94%! Uncharted territory after those last 2 rottens!

 

[HammerDown]

94% is still on par with Iron Man for best reviewed MCU movie.

 

[Solfari]

Woah, what's with the hate all of a sudden?
I mean 94% is still great but wow, so many rottens today!

 

[epicfurball]

TOMATOMETER

94%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 194
Fresh: 183
Rotten: 11

I can see how you drop in every time just to post when a negative review hits.

 

[Kev4000]

12th rotten

 

[HammerDown]

94%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 197
Fresh: 185
Rotten: 12

 

[iEquinox]

Woah, what's with the hate all of a sudden?
I mean 94% is still great but wow, so many rottens today!

RT scores for MCU movies that are released OS first usually drop a bit once they hit the US release date. US critics just seem to be a little bit harder to please for some reason.

 

[Iceman]

200 up any minute!

 

[InCali]

RT scores for MCU movies that are released OS first usually drop a bit once they hit the US release date. US critics just seem to be a little bit harder to please for some reason.

I had heard this before and it's why I talked about the group of early reviewers being different from the group of later ones. That is the second not being representative of the first.

 

[Tymminator]

RT scores for MCU movies that are released OS first usually drop a bit once they hit the US release date. US critics just seem to be a little bit harder to please for some reason.

Indeed. Thor The Dark World had great overseas reviews and I remember it even getting the “certified fresh” icon for a very short spell, but eventually the US reviews REALLY tanked that movie’s RT score.

 

[HammerDown]

94%
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 202
Fresh: 190
Rotten: 12

"What it lacks in urgency - which is a lot, given that the story involves an extinction-level threat to Asgard and All Who Therein Dwell - it makes up for in alacrity."

Chris Klimek
NPR

"The only thing I enjoyed more than the comedy in Thor: Ragnarok was a climactic battle sequence synced perfectly[BLACKOUT] to Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song.[/BLACKOUT]""
3.5/4

Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times

"Thor Ragnarok is, without a doubt, the best movie of the god of thunder within the MCU. [Full review in Spanish]"

4/5

"Thor: Ragnarok might rub some humorless Marvel purists the wrong way, but for the less obsessive among us, it's every bit as silly and mocking as it ought to be."
3/4

Stephen Rebello
Playboy Online

"It is irreverent, even cheeky. It has a sense of humor about itself while never, ever making fun of comic books or their fans."
A-

Nell Minow
Movie Mom

 

[Saitou Hajime]

How many does it need to get back to 95-96%?