Thor: Love and Thunder is the 463rd episode of the Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, Lon Harris, and Drew Grant. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2022 superhero film Thor: Love and Thunder. It was published on September 13, 2022. It is 6 minutes and 15 seconds long. It has been viewed over 200,000 times.
Script[]
In a cinematic universe that's 14 years old, so no wonder they've entered their awkward phase (pulls up the initial lineup for Phase 4, with 12 films and 13 Disney+ shows), comes Taika Waititi's sequel to Ragnarok that feels a little... How should I put this? "Unfocused". (multiple articles pop up detailing his multiple new projects, as well as his three-way kiss with Rita Ora and Tessa Thompson) Nice.
Thor: Love and Thunder
Ragnarok cranked up the comedy, drama, and color up to 11. Now, see what happens when you just keep cranking, in a film with the joke rate of Family Guy, the plot of Fault in Our Stars, and the look of that time you shroomed at Dave & Buster's...
Groot: (as Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder scream loudly) I am Groot.
Star-Lord: We need to find the damn remote so we can download the distress signal!
Nebula: I'm putting them down.
...that makes it clear Marvel is pushing their FX artists to the brink (a TheGamer article with the title "VFX Artists Are Refusing To Work With Marvel Due To Stress And Unrealistic Deadlines" pops up), only to get publicly roasted by their millionaire bosses.
Taika Waititi: (pointing to an image of Korg) Does this look real?
Tessa Thompson: In that particular shot, no, actually. (laughs)
You've watched Thor find love, find a new weapon, and find himself. Now, watch him find excuses to run through the same character arcs all over again, as Chris Hemsworth tries to squeeze something new out of a role he's played for ten years and eight films, but there's nothing left for him to give except hang dong and be done with it.
Zeus: And flick! (flicks Thor's robes off his body, leaving him naked)
Nice. Okay, you can have a carb now.
Thor: You flicked too hard, damn it!
Thrill at whatever different or interesting movie Christian Bale is in, as he brings a menace to Gorr the God Butcher, that comes from spending four hours in makeup while your co-stars waltz onto set in their PJs. He's on a quest to kill the gods themselves, and he'll kill exactly one of them, on camera, in self-defense (shows Gorr stabbing Rapu, causing his fellow flower gods to fall apart), placing him in the Marvel Hall of Fame of "great actors wasted in disposable villain roles" (shows Gorr alongside Kaecilius, Maya Hansen, Sonny Burch, and Yon-Rogg) and "villains who are right, but Marvel heroes only fight to preserve the status quo" (shows Gorr alongside Hela, Vulture, Killmonger, and Ghost). (shows Thor and the powered-up children charging the Black Berserkers) Go, child soldiers, go! Save those elites with your tiny little lives!
Rounding out a Fantastic F-Thor of heroes is Valkyrie, the king of New Asgard; she's sort of an alcoholic (?)...
Valkyrie: (as Thor loads a keg of beer onto a tourism boat) That's essential. Mm-hmm.
...sort of a Viking warrior (?)...
Valkyrie: (to Jane) --you pretty much have to die in battle. [...] Otherwise, you don't get into Valhalla. That's my plan.
[40 Minutes Later]
Valkyrie: (to Thor) I wish I could join you, but I'd probably die, and that won't help get the kids back...
...and definitely the Black best friend in a rom-com about Thor having sex with his weapons.
Thor: (while showing off Zeus's lightning bolt) It's sleek, it's slender, it's powerful, it's beautiful... (after Stormbreaker crackles with energy) Ah, for you. I love it for you, Valkyrie. / Stormbreaker, what are you doing? Is this about Mjolnir? / (to Mjolnir) Well, you moved on quick, didn't you? (chuckles) You're some piece of work. / (to Stormbreaker) What? We were just talking.
Korg: Must be hard for you to see your ex-girlfriend and your ex-hammer hangin' out, and getting on so well.
Thor: (to Stormbreaker) --are we good? Yeah? I mean, I know it's a little weird having my ex-weapon around, but come on, Mjolnir, in the past.
Then there's Korg, the Urkel of Asgard, who's grown from the comic relief to a main character and the narrator, who steadfastly refuses to shut up...
Thor: Korg, shut up.
...or die --
Korg: Turns out the only part of a Kronan that's alive is his mouth.
Tell me about it. -- and Jane Foster, Thor's ex whose Stage Four cancer is temporarily cured by his hammer, a subplot that would require a careful balance of zany fantasy and relatable pathos... or you could just make a joke out of it every single time.
Darcy: Jane, it's Stage Four.
Jane: Out of, like, how many stages?
Darcy: Four.
Jane: That we know about.
Ha ha!
Jane: --I thought maybe, if science isn't working, maybe Viking space magic.
Ha ha.
Doctor: --something's affecting her body's ability to fight the cancer. I'm sorry, Thor. (puts her hand on Thor's shoulder)
Ha... There's a joke coming, right?
Thor: Oh, some moron made a fridge without a door. Can you believe it? (chuckles)
Ha!
So lower your expectations for a candy-coated tumor held together by a hundred "screaming goat" jokes. (shows Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder screaming) But hey, not every comic book film has to be so serious (goats screaming), or connect to the larger narrative of the MCU (goats screaming), or bring a new dimension to favorite characters (goats screaming), or introduce cool new heroes (goats screaming), or build up a new big villain (goats screaming), or have a central theme (goats screaming), or smoothly shift between tones (goats screaming), or explain what a god even is (goats screaming), or have clearly-defined stakes (goats screaming), or make sense in general (goats screaming), or be consistently funny (goats screaming), or look good outside of action scenes (goats screaming), or--
Starring:
- Blonde-God Van Damme (Chris Hemsworth as Thor Odinson)
- Jane the Version... We Wanted More Of (Natalie Portman as Jane Foster/Mighty Thor)
- A White Christian Who Hates Polytheism (Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher)
- Tess Your Might (Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie)
- Hey Guys, It's Me, Korg. I'm the Narrator Now. Gonna Be Hearing a Whole Lot More From Me. Throughout the Whole Entire Movie Actually, Basically Every Scene. Hope You Enjoy It. This is Definitely What a Thor Movie is Supposed to Be All About. I'm Very Excited to Be Part of It. Could Probably Stop This at Any Moment I've Wanted To, But I'm Convinced It'll Get Funny Enough If I Keep Just on Lingering About and Keep on Talking... (Taika Waititi as Korg)
- The Firstborn Child Hemsworth Promised to Kevin Feige (India Hemsworth as Love)
- Chadiator (Russell Crowe as Zeus)
- Hired Gunns (The Guardians of the Galaxy [Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Sean Gunn as Kraglin, Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon, Karen Gillen as Nebula, and Vin Diesel as Groot])
- The Herc with the Mouth (Brett Goldstein as Hercules)
- Thor: The Dark World (the Shadow Realm)
...and...
- Every Streamer at a Convention
Thor: (to Axl) Good to see you in person, buddy. Good to see you.
The honest title for Thor: Love and Thunder was ‘Finding Chemo’. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.
(shows Valkyrie opening an "Infinity Conez" ice cream shop, with the logo of an Infinity Gauntlet holding an ice cream cone) Wait, is Thanos fun now? He tried to murder half the universe! Isn't this like opening up a "Hitler Burger"? (shows Taika Waititi's Adolf Hitler shrugging)
Viewer's Comments[]
Say: "This comment is rated E for Epic, because I read it in my epic voice." - David, Jr. Tolson
PLEASE SAY mission report, December 16, 1991 - YASHWANTH OSCAR
Please say "I get No respect" in your best Rodney Dangerfield voice - Ron Paul
Ho! I get no respect! No respect at all!
Say: "I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens." - Joe R M
Trivia[]
- To prevent itself from being age-restricted like the Honest Trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, which showed off unaltered footage of Wolverine's bottom, the shot of Thor's butt crack is pixelated similar to how it was done in the film's official marketing campaign.
Reception[]
Production Credits[]
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, Lon Harris & Drew Grant
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Associate Producer: Ryan O'Toole
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Post-Production Supervisor: Emin Bassavand
Post-Production Coordinator: Mikołaj Kossakowski
Assistant Editor: Rebecca Castaneda
Director of Video Production: Max Dionne
