Today I have seen Captain America: First Avenger, and I have to say: It was a fun film to watch.
When it first starts out, I kept having this odd feeling I have seen this movie before, and when it was time for Steve to take the Serum, it dawned on me: It was like Spider-Man! I kinda felt like it was cheap of Marvel of not having the Toby McQuire Spider-Man be part of the Avengers plot, as (the way I see it) that the Spider-Man movies help brought back the Superhero Movie Genre, and we wouldn’t see an Avengers or Justice League movie for a another set of years without them: but now I see it: They use Peter Parker’s character and used it as the template for Steve Rogers, and it works. (Though pre-serum Steve body DID NOT match his voice at all).
I liked it how Cap, right after getting his “powers”, uses them as a promotional gimmick (again, like Spider-Man when he started out as a wrestler), but when he learns of someone he cares about being in harm’s way, he shows off how to his abilities right.
My favorite part of the movie is the middle, in which Cap and the rest of the soldiers take it Redskull and Hydra. It really felt like a World War flick then rather than a superhero, an interesting twist to both genres. Though it did got a little silly considering how the Hydra soldiers had high tech weapons but were still taken down with great ease with conventional weapons use by unconventional men. Another sort of flaw if the flim is that they had the Howling Commandos, but didn’t really give them time or depth, kinda like the X-Men movies in which they had all these major characters from the comics, but they end up being background characters. And they do use as much CGI as the Green Lantern movie.
The film’s low point was the ending. Redskull’s big final plan seemed… half thought out. And the way his final scene in the movie seem REALLY anti-climactic. Steve’s final scene was okay, even though still rather abrupt. But the after credits scene for the Avengers… AWESOME!!!
But overall, it was still a fun movie. It has some VERY major flaws (like the Nazis speak fluent English and NOT German and the short awkward romance between Steve and Peggy when that girl kissed him), and I put it on the same self as the Spider-Man and Green Lantern movie, though this movie IS more fan friendly than those films.
