Thor: Ragnarok Trailer Reactions: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

2. Jeff Goldblum Is Playing Jeff Goldblum Again

Jeff Goldblum Thor Ragnarok
Marvel Studios

Now, this might well actually be a selling point for a significant number of his fans - and the least surprising revelation of the trailer for everyone else - but it's a little frustrating to see hints that Jeff Goldblum is playing Jeff Goldblum once more.

Yes, he's got a new metallic blue stripe on his chin and his hair is spiked up, but he's ostensibly playing the same role he has done for the past 20 years. Himself.

Perhaps it's silly to expect anything more, but there's a harrowing reminder of what Jeff Goldblum playing Jeff Goldblum can mean burned excrutiatingly into recent memory in the shape of Independence Day: Resurgence. And while that was fun in the same way that watching someone being repeatedly kicked in the genitals, after a certain amount of time it just looks a bit sad. Let's hope Ragnarok doesn't push it too far.

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