He even listens to the soothing strains of Richard Wagner. It’s run by the mad scientist Red Skull (go-to villain guy Hugo Weaving), whose red face may be the result of an experiment gone horribly wrong or just pain embarrassment at the Nazi clichés he is forced to play. Everyone associated with this evil group shouts not “Heil Hitler” but “Heil Hydra.” In fact, it’s more like a worldwide criminal organization out of the James Bond era, intent on world conquest and more than willing to kill fellow Nazis. Phillips’ team in Strategic Scientific Research, along with the redoubtable Peggy Carter and inventor Howard Stark ( Dominic Cooper), in taking on the Hydra organization, a Nazi science division that is even worse than the Nazis. This rescue cues a new assignment for Captain America. When the tour takes him to Europe, he breaks out of the carnival show long enough to save the lives of nearly 400 GIs, including his Brooklyn buddy Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). This feat more than catches the eye of British military liaison Peggy Carter ( Hayley Atwell), not to mention the press.Īn overnight media sensation, the military doesn’t know what to do with Steve other than send him - shades of Flags of Our Fathers - on a bond-raising tour as the newly dubbed Captain America. Moments after his rebirth, he faces his first test as he races barefoot through Manhattan streets circa 1942 to take down a Nazi spy. Erskine performs a “procedure” on Steve - with equipment that looks like it was left over from Bride of Frankenstein - suddenly Steve is buff and fast-healing, in fact, nearly impossible to injure. Chester Phillips ( Tommy Lee Jones, having a fine time) dismisses Steve as a “90-pound asthmatic,” not without justification. Erskine ( Stanley Tucci, with the phoniest of accents) sees something special in the young man. In perhaps the movie’s best or at least weirdest visual effect, Evans’ face sits atop an unbelievably scrawny body that recruiting sergeants shoo away until German-American scientist Dr. Brooklyn’s Steve Rogers (Evans), son of a dead war hero, repeatedly tries to enlist in the military, but his physical condition is pure 4F. While bracketed by a modern-day sequence, the movie otherwise takes place in a heightened rendering of the early days of the fight against Nazi Germany. No, sir, not in this war and not with these determined heroes. Nor does any superhero question his powers. Sticking to its simplistic, patriotic origins, where a muscular red, white and blue GI slugging Adolf Hitler in the jaw is all that’s required, Captain America trafficks in red-blooded heroes, dastardly villains, classy dames and war-weary military officers. And let’s not even bother to compare this to Christopher Nolan’s Batman series.
So you get an alternative WWII, say like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds - only without all that dialogue and enough oversized vehicles and outlandish sets to fit its beefcake hero.įor in terms of even recent films, Captain America lacks the deft touch, appealing character interaction and sophisticated storytelling skills of Marvel Comics’ X-Men: First Class.
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The movie is, of course, Marvel Comics’ and Paramount’s filmization of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Super Soldier series that first appeared in comic books in March 1941, well before Pearl Harbor, so understandably this is one superhero movie that demands that the first movie at least be a period one. If you take a World War II movie, dial up the action with contemporary visual effects and CGI, then give your hero a double dose of steroids and human growth hormones, you wind up in the movie/comic book world of Captain America: The First Avenger.
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