I’m not intimately familiar with the Captain America comics, but the film’s trailer intrigued me enough to lure me into the theater over the weekend. Captain America can safely be considered a B-lister in Marvel’s stable of superheroes, so the movie could have gotten away with being merely competent and audiences would have been satisfied. Captain America<\/i> aspires to be more than competent, taking us on an invigorating romp through a comic book version of World War II. The story itself doesn’t need much explanation. Steve Rogers is a 90-pound weakling who desperately wants to join the military and aid in the battle against the Nazis, but keeps getting turned away because of his physical frailties. Thanks to a chance meeting with an Army scientist at the World Expo, Rogers is enrolled in a secret military program designed to turn him into a super-soldier. Meanwhile, renegade Nazi officer Johann Schmidt (played with appropriately sinister megalomania by Hugo Weaving) is pursuing his own plan for world domination. <\/p>\n
The movie’s light touch keep Captain America from becoming a jingoistic self-parody and lets his simple humanity win the audience’s sympathies. This attention to character development, along with several clever yet not altogether original action sequences, separates Captain America from lesser peers like Daredevil<\/i> and Fantastic Four<\/i>. Aside from an after-credits scene that plays more like a commercial, Captain America<\/i> is perfectly enjoyable popcorn entertainment drenched in lovingly rendered nostalgia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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