Taika Waititi is injecting Thor: Ragnarok with his own style, one that was influenced by Flash Gordon and Queen.
The comparison to Flash Gordon is rather fitting in the grand scheme of things.
Thor takes the place of Flash Gordon (Sam Jones) and Hela (Cate Blanchett) of Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) in this comparison, while Ragnarok presumably doesn’t have any ties to football.
I loved the kind of cosmic trippy vibe of the Thor comics.