Hopkins is classically trained, as is director Kenneth Branagh, who naturally sets him to conjuring verbal thunderbolts straight out of King Lear. In that realm, which seems to have been imagined for the purposes of this picture by Maxfield Parrish, we meet our hero's trickster brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and his one-eyed dad Odin (Anthony Hopkins), who's seriously annoyed about the war Thor's started with the Frost Giants. ![]() (Because they needed someone who might credibly be up on his Norse mythology?) While those three take their charge to the hospital, the film heads for a flashback in Asgard, whence he fell. The earthlings in question are astrophysicist Natalie Portman and her assistant Kat Dennings, who are accompanied by a mentor played by Stellan Skarsgard. ![]() It's origin-story time again at the multiplex: Godlike superhero falls from sky and gets adopted by earthlings, who discover in short order that he is in fact a godling.
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