Thor Love and Thunder Rotten Tomatoes: Mixed Reviews

Few Marvel movies sparked as much debate as Thor: Love and Thunder. The film earned a 67% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes — the lowest among Thor solo outings — yet pulled in $760 million worldwide.

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 67% Tomatometer / 78% Audience Score ·
Budget: $250 million ·
Worldwide Box Office: $760 million ·
Opening Weekend: $143 million

Nine key metrics, one pattern: Thor: Love and Thunder earned decent but not great scores across the board, while its box office tells a different story.

Why did Thor: Love and Thunder get such bad ratings?

What went wrong with Thor: Love and Thunder?

• The film’s tone shifted sharply from its predecessor, Ragnarok, leaning into self-parody that critics found excessive (Screen Rant (entertainment media)).
• Many reviewers felt humor overwhelmed emotional stakes — the Rotten Tomatoes Editorial (film coverage) described the consensus as fun but disjointed.
• Christian Bale’s performance as Gorr the God Butcher was widely praised, but the script gave him limited screen time (Forbes, business media).
• Pacing was called uneven, with too many subplots crammed into 119 minutes (MovieWeb (film news)).

How did critics and audiences differ?

• Critics landed at 67% on the Tomatometer, while the verified audience score reached 84% shortly after release (Screen Rant, entertainment media).
• The legacy audience score later settled at 78%, still 11 points above critics (Screen Rant, entertainment media).
• Forbes noted the gap: the audience score exceeded the critics’ by 16 percentage points in early data (Forbes, business media).

The pattern: casual viewers enjoyed the ride more than professional critics, a typical sign of a polarizing blockbuster. The trade-off: broader audience appeal often comes at the cost of critical approval.

Is Thor: Love and Thunder a hit or flop?

Box office performance vs budget

• Worldwide box office: $760.9 million (IMDb (film database)).
• Production budget: $250 million, not including marketing (IMDb (film database)).
• Opening weekend in the US and Canada: $144.2 million (IMDb (film database)).
• Second-weekend drop of 68% raised concerns about legs (Rotten Tomatoes Editorial (film coverage)).

Is Thor: Love and Thunder worth watching?

• For casual Marvel fans: high audience score (78%) suggests a fun, lightweight experience.
• For MCU completists: essential for following the Guardians crossover and Jane Foster’s arc.
• For discerning film-goers: the 67% critics’ score and 6.2 IMDb rating indicate a flawed but not unwatchable film.

The implication: whether Love and Thunder is a “hit” depends on the yardstick — financially yes, critically no.

What is the biggest Marvel flop?

What Marvel film flopped the most?

• The Incredible Hulk (2008) is the lowest-grossing MCU film at $264.8 million worldwide against a $150 million budget (Wikipedia (community encyclopedia)).
• Eternals (2021) holds the worst Rotten Tomatoes critics score for an MCU film at 47% (Rotten Tomatoes Editorial, film coverage).
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) had a steep 70% second-weekend drop and underperformed expectations (Forbes (business media)).

Comparing Thor: Love and Thunder to these films shows it avoided the worst labels — its box office is strong and its Tomatometer sits above the MCU average.

Comparing Thor: Love and Thunder to other Marvel flops

Three metrics, one contrast: Love and Thunder leads in total gross but trails in critical reception among the “underperformer” group.

The catch: Love and Thunder is no flop by Hollywood standards, but its high budget narrows margins — a $760M gross on a $250M spend is less lucrative than a $500M gross on a $100M spend.

What film has 100% Rotten Tomatoes?

What film has 0% Rotten Tomatoes?

• Films with a perfect 100% Tomatometer include Toy Story, Paddington 2, Get Out, and Lady Bird (Rotten Tomatoes Editorial (film coverage)).
• At the other end, films with 0% include The Ridiculous 6 (2015), Gotti (2018), and Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (Rotten Tomatoes Editorial (film coverage)).

What movies have over 90% Rotten Tomatoes?

• Over 90% Tomatometer films are typically critical darlings: Parasite (99%), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (97%), Black Panther (96%), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (93%) (Rotten Tomatoes Editorial, film coverage).

Rotten Tomatoes scoring works by aggregating positive vs. negative reviews — a film needs at least 60% positive to be “Fresh.” Thor: Love and Thunder at 67% is only 7 points above the Fresh threshold, which explains why it’s considered a weak Fresh.

What is Chris Hemsworth’s highest grossing film?

Rank of Chris Hemsworth’s movies by Box Office performance

• Chris Hemsworth’s highest-grossing film overall is Avengers: Endgame ($2.8B worldwide) (IMDb (film database)).
• His highest-grossing solo film is Thor: Love and Thunder ($760.9M) (IMDb (film database)).
• Other Thor films: Thor: Ragnarok ($854M) (IMDb (film database)), Thor ($449M), Thor: The Dark World ($644M).

Five Thor films, one pattern: the franchise peaked at Ragnarok in both critics’ reception and total gross. Love and Thunder dropped in Tomatometer but still outgrossed the first two installments.

The implication: this places Love and Thunder as a commercial high for Hemsworth’s solo outings, yet the critical dip demands careful recalibration for future Thor films.

Confirmed facts vs. what’s unclear

“The result is a film that is fun but ultimately feels like a collection of skits rather than a cohesive story.”

— Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus (Rotten Tomatoes (aggregator))

“Waititi leaned too hard into the jokes. I wanted more Gorr, more emotion, less screaming goats.”

— Verified audience review on Rotten Tomatoes (Rotten Tomatoes (audience reviews))

“I think we pushed the comedy as far as it could go. Maybe even a little further.”

— Taika Waititi, director (Rotten Tomatoes Editorial (film coverage))

The consequence for Disney and Marvel Studios is clear: Love and Thunder made money but damaged the Thor brand’s critical standing. For fans, the choice is simple — if you want a goofy superhero comedy, it delivers; if you expect the emotional depth of Ragnarok, you’ll leave disappointed.

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