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Scott Greenstone

'Thor: Love and Thunder' review: A Marvel movie so unworthy to wield Thor's hammer, it barely tries to lift it

Only a few superhero franchises have made it to a fourth movie, and you can usually sum up how bad they are in less than a sentence each: George Clooney's bat-nipples in "Batman and Robin" (1997), Nuclear Man fighting Superman on the moon in "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" (1987).

It brings me no pleasure to report "Thor: Love and Thunder" is worse. I wished I was actually watching "Batman and Robin" or "Superman IV," because for all their camp, those movies felt less pointless and more human than "Thor 4," a cheap corporate commercial for upcoming Marvel content.

"Thor 4" feels like a Disney experiment in just how bad Marvel movies can get before someone points out the emperor has no clothes. It feels like a Marvel movie that secretly thinks you're stupid for liking Marvel movies.

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