I did enjoy it a lot, but I did feel Loki was made the buttmonkey a little too much, and sometimes the humor deflated a touching/serious moment too much. I was also disappointed in how quickly the Warriors Three were taken out. But overall, I did enjoy it a lot, and was glad Loki got his face-turn on. On that note, responding in a general way to some of the comments in this thread....
During the elevator scene, and the following scene where they steal the ship and Thor paralyzes Loki, I got the sense that he was pushing Loki's buttons intentionally, to try and make him do the right thing. We saw earlier in the film that Thor is more in tune with his brother than I think a lot of people give him credit for, he figured out who "Odin" was and got him to drop his disguise in about 5 minutes, it showed he knows Loki, and knows what to say to get Loki to do what he wants, now that he's wised up a bit during his time on the Avengers. He's probably the only person that could do that sort of mind game on Loki, and I think what we saw there was quite deliberate on Thor's part. He may not have known exactly HOW Loki would get out of this and come join him, but it was made clear later that he probably intended it, based on his reaction when Loki shows up at Asgard in the ship later. Did Thor show even the tiniest bit of surprise? nope. Just "You're late." Also, I found it interesting that when Thor had Loki on the ground paralyzed, one of the things he said was that Loki had become predictable in his villainy, and he could be more, and that is pretty much the same motivation Loki had in JIM.
As for the Tesseract, I do think Loki took it, yeah. It's not as if it was an either-or situation, he could take both the Tesseract AND Surtur's crown. But i don't think he took it with bad intentions. Selfish ones, maybe, but not like, gonna conquer the Earth again sort of thing. I do hope that the clip of him handing it to Thanos is either a trick (it's a fake/illusion/has some other trick up his sleeve/whatever) or he is out in a position where he has no other choice. Because yeah, I don't want to see the relationship between Thor and Loki undone again by having Loki betray everyone.
But I do think the face turn was indeed genuine, because I think what they did with Skurge was intended to give Loki's inner growth a more overt outward presence in the film. I mean, Skurge's journey matched Loki's step for step. They started in a similar place, they both faltered by aligning themselves with a bad guy for self preservation/selfishness, and they both made the right choice in the end. The differences being that Loki's was more subtle and internal, and of course, Skurge died, while Loki did not. But that may be foreshadowing of Infinity War, which could of course set up a JIM sort of deal.
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