
You have to be able to accept the strange in order to enjoy Thor: The Dark World, otherwise it wouldn't make much sense if viewed from outside the scope of a comic book universe. It is a movie that is largely set in the world of Asgard. Since it's not a familiar place like Earth is, it becomes difficult to latch onto the stakes being laid out with the war between the Dark Elves and heroes of Asgard. When it eventually gets back to Earth, things do get better, but then the film just ends as it was about to get going. So goes another chapter in "Phase Two" for Marvel Studios.