Ranking Every Aspect Of The MCU From Worst To Best
9. Thor
Thor has proved a tough nut to crack for Marvel Studios. Sure, people enjoy the character and Chris Hemsworth has made the role his own, but the God of Thunder's two solo outings so far rank among the weakest of Marvel Studios' output.
The problem has always been finding the right tone. The first Thor was a huge gamble, as it took the MCU away from Earth for the first time and had an awful lot of world-building to do in the process. Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean stylings were a great fit for Asgard, but then the movie makes a jarring shift from which it never really recovers, becoming a fish-out-of-water comedy set almost exclusively in a dusty New Mexico town.
Follow-up The Dark World is generally regarded as the weakest entry in the studio's filmography, one that suffers very obviously from all of the studio's default settings (forced humor, tired love story, terrible villain, stuff happening in the sky etc.), with only the realm-hopping sequence during the third act providing any real sense of originality.
While the Thor franchise has many problems, it does have one ace up its sleeve; the rapport between Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston's Loki. Bringing spades of charisma and screen presence to their respective roles, the actors have a fantastic dynamic that has seen the relationship between the characters remain in a constant state of evolution, no matter how many times they appear onscreen together.