Having been in since pretty much the ground floor, Chris Hemsworth is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s furniture, but that doesn’t mean he’s always going to toe the company line.
In fact, the actor has come right out and explained his issues with last summer’s Thor: Love and Thunder, admitting that the Odinson’s fourth solo adventure got a little too silly, which would be underselling it ever so slightly. Hopes were high after the phenomenal Ragnarok reinvented the title hero, but Taika Waititi got a little too carried away with his signature style.
It wasn’t just Love and Thunder that wound up in the crosshairs during Hemsworth’s interview with GQ, though, as the star once more established himself as a true man of the people by echoing the entire MCU fandom and questioning why Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was called upon to be such a massive and startling departure from its predecessors.
“That’s the trick: you have to separate all those stories. The moment it’s like [in trailer voice] ‘Your world is in danger, the entire universe!’ It’s like, ‘Yeah, so was the last 24 films.’ It has to become a bit more personal and grounded.”
If you were to ask 100 MCU supporters what their major recurring issues with the franchise were, then a huge number of them would inevitably say that plenty of movies have suffered from looking too far forward and hurting themselves with too much setup, not to mention the over-reliance on the standard brand of humor that works in small doses but can easily become overpowering.
It’s not hard to find someone who agrees, but it speaks to a wider issue with Kevin Feige’s sandbox that one of his longest-tenured stars is spouting them out loud.