Thor loses his hammer, his home and his hair, and finds out his family history is worse than he was told.
A hard tonal reset. The previous two Thor films were solemn, and this one is a comedy with a real loss at the centre of it, which turns out to suit the character far better.
Underneath the jokes it does serious structural work: it clears away almost everything Thor had, so that the next film can start him from nothing.
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Released: November 3, 2017