Yesterday I loaded up my baby brother (16, but i’m ancient compared to him so I’m sticking with baby) into the car, and took him to see Captain America: The First Avenger.
Overall, the movie is an all right movie. Key aspects of the movie are actually forgettable the day following a viewing of it. The movie starts out with a scrawny young man Steve Rogers who is going from county to county trying to get into the Army, but is constantly disqualified due to a number of obvious reasons if you were to see the movie. The movie draws you into the kind of heart the young man has, in that he wants to do the right thing and refuses to run. All typical things that all of us have come to expect from just about any Stan Lee created comic book character. The problem with the movie as a whole is there is no actual character development. Maybe I’m asking for too much out of a movie based off of a comic book superhero, but this is something that has been an issue with the other big name Marvel movie franchise Spiderman. Both of these characters start out as glorified boy scouts, who run into a something supernatural, and become extraordinary boy scouts. I could continue to beat that to death, but I’m going to leave it alone as it’s not the only issue with the movie. The movie proceeds to lie completely flat for about 20 to 30 minutes in the middle during which I nearly fell asleep on several occasions.
The entire movie seems to only exist to setup The Avengers next summer, which is fine, but it felt overtly forced. Overall, the movie is to a certain degree enjoyable. Make sure to stay past the credits for a teaser of next Summer’s The Avengers.
