The reviews for Thor: The Dark World have been generally unfavorable, with criticisms ranging from the film being formulaic and repetitive to not featuring enough of Loki.

While the Chris Hemsworth film seems to be doing just fine at the box office, earning $7.1 million in its first week, the critics don't seem impressed by this sequel about the Marvel superhero from the Avengers franchise. The film has gotten some very scathing reviews which refer to it as mostly being a "filler," with "tacky 3D effects," and then disappointed by the lack of screen time for the deliciously complex antagonist Loki. It seems like very few reviews have been kind to the film.

Enstars rounded up some of the reviews the film has gotten so far.

"Not enough Loki. Too many tacky 3D effects. And then there's the hard fact that everything old isn't necessarily new again just because the bottom line wishes it so. That's the skinny on the big-budget Thor: The Dark World, a sequel to 2011's surprisingly passable Thor and 2012's surprisingly better The Avengers (thanks, Joss Whedon), featuring a large chunk of Marvel superheroes.

"Just when yawning sets in and you think that Loki, Thor's dashing, demented brother, will never show up, scene-stealing Tom Hiddleston rides in. Even in prison, Loki's poison-tipped one-liners fly like arrows, especially at Thor." -- Rolling Stone

"The franchise at hand goes by the name of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, encompassing the new adventures of Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and so on, worth billions around the world. (Rumor has it the next all-star "Avengers" movie will be two hours of actors in costume, counting their money.) So how's this "Thor" sequel? It's fairly entertaining. Same old threats of galaxy annihilation, spiced with fish-out-of-water jokes. My favorite here: Encountering a London flat for the first time in his travels, Chris Hemsworth's Thor comes in the door and hangs his snazzy flying killer hammer from its leather loop on one of the coat hooks." -- LA Times

"But the most interesting character, of course, remains Loki, who really deserves his own movie. Played by Tom Hiddleston, Loki is a wiry bundle of evil and angst. With his slicked-back hair and zingers (Loki has the only worthwhile one-liners in the movie), Loki is too much fun to keep locked away as a prisoner. Thor enlists him into helping defeat Malekith, and the brothers' trust issues are on full display for the rest of the movie. Thor isn't the best movie in the franchise, but it isn't the worst either." -- First Post

"Despite its entertaining lineage and a few cool sequences, "Thor: The Dark World" feels like filler, designed to keep the engines running and the fan base primed for the next "Avengers" outing in 2015. So sure, the bar has been raised, but it's the bar of generic superhero movie." -- UTSanDiego

"As Marvel's latest 3-D behemoth, Thor: The Dark World, isn't so much a sequel as the latest plug-and-play into the comic book company's blockbuster algorithm. It's a reliably bankable formula of world-saving action sequences, new villain introductions and clever quips from women on the side, (and they, most assuredly, are always off to the side)." -- Yahoo

"The success of the film hinges on how well it yokes together the external and the internal. "Thor: The Dark World," a watchable but technologically over-scaled slab of Marvel boilerplate, is far from a great superhero movie - it's more like the diagram for one." -- EW

"Tonight, not even the gods are safe as Thor: The Dark World debuts in theaters. The second chapter (third if you count Avengers) of Thor's story, The Dark World is by no means a perfect movie, but it really doesn't need to be: It's tremendously fun and eminently worthwhile, warts and all. If you're already a Thor fan courtesy of either the comics or the first film, it's a safe bet that you'll enjoy The Dark World." -- Wired

"Thor: The Dark World begins as high fantasy and ends as a blown-up episode of Doctor Who. It looks like no other movie, Marvel or otherwise, and it's populated by characters compelling enough to support a more complex, richer story than this one. However unlikely it was, the galaxies have aligned in Thor's favor so far. Maybe they'll bless him with a movie fully worthy of his legend next." -- The Dissolve

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