FRESH SPINS
Aug 19, 2022
1 minute
THOR: LOVE & THUNDER
★★★★☆
-ish synth flutters aside, Michael Giacchino/ Nami Melumad bring symphonic grandeur score, complemented with wily wit and wild-haired guitar. Thundery chorales boost the ceremonial sensibility, though Gorr’s theme can’t match the Thors’ combined cues for clout; on-brand or not, his butchered melody just doesn’t stick. But acoustic-guitar breaks, Maurice Jarre-ish fanfares and Valhalla-calling rock-outs max the score’s colours, before mighty endsuite ‘The Ballad Of Love And Thunder’ hammers things home exuberantly.
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