Oh, another reason I liked Thor to the degree that I might - might - just be willing to call it the best g*dd*mn superhero movie ever made was because its politics weren't really shoehorned in there. I just stopped and said "what" when I was watching The Avengers and all the heroes were upset because Samuel L. Jackson was making weapons. Because it's okay for Tony Stark to have an Iron Man suit, but woe betide the United States whenever he has a hangover. (And I know Joss Whedon has a hangup about guns from how they're treated on Buffy, but they're how us mortals like to protect ourselves, thanks very much.)

Thor didn't bother trying to pull any of that crap on us.  The Ice Giants that Thor protects at the end were by no means innocent, but there was a peace, one that Loki spent the entire film trying to undo, and one that the Ice Giant leadership didn't seem to have an interest in breaking (until Loki appeared to hand them victory on a silver platter, at any rate).  Thor saving the Ice Giants was less a political message and more a necessary part of his character arc, and I'm not going to dispute the notion that peace is a worthy goal.