I went to see this movie with my mom and all three sisters, plus a couple of their friends, and I think it's safe to say we all enjoyed it. In fact, while I was positively disposed toward the first movie (and the first Captain America, come to that), I loved The Dark World).
We went on Thanksgiving and oddly, only saw two of the same trailers that you saw: Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, both of which look crazy awesome (we also saw a trailer for Days of Future Past which likewise looks terrific). I was a bit disappointed we didn't get to see the trailer for Vampire Academy, another one I'm greatly looking forward to.
According to ptolemaeus, the two best scenes of the movie were Loki using his illusion powers on himself and Thor during his escape, and Thor throwing him out the airlock of the Svartalf ship.
And all of the female characters in this movie were awesome. I hadn't seen the spoilers, but I knew Frigga was doomed the moment Malekith and Kurse strode into the room - but I didn't realize she would totally take Malekith apart beforehand (and he didn't manage to kill her - that would be Kurse).
As for Jane, I love how even when she's out of her depth and being hunted by Malekith in Asgard, she's still proactive and bubbling over with curiosity (as you'd expect), and once the Aether is drained from her, she plays a very active part in getting them out of the Dark World and defeating Malekith's forces.
Darcy is, as you say, awesome. I think my favorite part with her, actually was in the scene where she and Ian see the broadcast of Eric Selvig at Stonehenge. Just the expression she makes when she sees the footage is priceless. (On the other hand, I'm pretty sure at least one of my sisters was put out by the way she mistreated Ian during the early parts of the film.) I thought that when Thor and Jane returned to Asgard we might not see any more of her and the rest of Jane's cohort again - I was so glad to be wrong.
I don't have anything to add to what you've said already about Sif.
Heimdall was made of win in the previous movie, and he was only cooler in this one. Thor and Loki were great, too, especially in their scenes together. And Dr. Selvig (and for me, it's gotten to the point where I don't need TV Tropes to spot a Stan Lee cameo in a Marvel superhero movie), and Odin. In his Well Intentioned Extremist scene with Thor cast as level-headed advisor, they were actually reversing their roles from the first film, which I thought was very cool. (I have a hard time imagining he's really dead though - for all the buildup he's gotten in the two movies, I can't see them killing him off-screen.) The warriors three were pretty good, as well.
I'm not much of a fan of Eccleston's tenure as the Doctor, but I enjoyed Malekith and Algrim as villains. I've seen all of the connected Marvel movies now except for The Incredible Hulk, and I've noticed that weak/uninteresting villains is a recurring issue with the films. But as far as I'm concerned, despite being pretty much stock villains, the Dark Elves are second only to Loki and the Chitauri when it comes to franchise antagonists.
Ian was pretty good (and it was actually him who tossed their keys into the dimensional rift, and then Darcy asked if those were their car keys). However, he was blatantly there only to serve as a love interest for Darcy. And considering a major component of every other female character in the movie is her relationship to a male character, throwing one in for Darcy too seems a bit much. (Also when you consider that every confirmed relationship in these movies has been staunchly heterosexual, throwing in yet another one seems a bit much.)
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Date: 2013-12-11 12:30 am (UTC)We went on Thanksgiving and oddly, only saw two of the same trailers that you saw: Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, both of which look crazy awesome (we also saw a trailer for Days of Future Past which likewise looks terrific). I was a bit disappointed we didn't get to see the trailer for Vampire Academy, another one I'm greatly looking forward to.
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And all of the female characters in this movie were awesome. I hadn't seen the spoilers, but I knew Frigga was doomed the moment Malekith and Kurse strode into the room - but I didn't realize she would totally take Malekith apart beforehand (and he didn't manage to kill her - that would be Kurse).
As for Jane, I love how even when she's out of her depth and being hunted by Malekith in Asgard, she's still proactive and bubbling over with curiosity (as you'd expect), and once the Aether is drained from her, she plays a very active part in getting them out of the Dark World and defeating Malekith's forces.
Darcy is, as you say, awesome. I think my favorite part with her, actually was in the scene where she and Ian see the broadcast of Eric Selvig at Stonehenge. Just the expression she makes when she sees the footage is priceless. (On the other hand, I'm pretty sure at least one of my sisters was put out by the way she mistreated Ian during the early parts of the film.) I thought that when Thor and Jane returned to Asgard we might not see any more of her and the rest of Jane's cohort again - I was so glad to be wrong.
I don't have anything to add to what you've said already about Sif.
Heimdall was made of win in the previous movie, and he was only cooler in this one. Thor and Loki were great, too, especially in their scenes together. And Dr. Selvig (and for me, it's gotten to the point where I don't need TV Tropes to spot a Stan Lee cameo in a Marvel superhero movie), and Odin. In his Well Intentioned Extremist scene with Thor cast as level-headed advisor, they were actually reversing their roles from the first film, which I thought was very cool. (I have a hard time imagining he's really dead though - for all the buildup he's gotten in the two movies, I can't see them killing him off-screen.) The warriors three were pretty good, as well.
I'm not much of a fan of Eccleston's tenure as the Doctor, but I enjoyed Malekith and Algrim as villains. I've seen all of the connected Marvel movies now except for The Incredible Hulk, and I've noticed that weak/uninteresting villains is a recurring issue with the films. But as far as I'm concerned, despite being pretty much stock villains, the Dark Elves are second only to Loki and the Chitauri when it comes to franchise antagonists.
Ian was pretty good (and it was actually him who tossed their keys into the dimensional rift, and then Darcy asked if those were their car keys). However, he was blatantly there only to serve as a love interest for Darcy. And considering a major component of every other female character in the movie is her relationship to a male character, throwing one in for Darcy too seems a bit much. (Also when you consider that every confirmed relationship in these movies has been staunchly heterosexual, throwing in yet another one seems a bit much.)