Starring:
Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Hugo Weaving
Year
Released: 2011
Year in
Timeline: WWII
Key
Elements: Captain America (Avenger #1), Red Skull, Hydra, The Tesseract,
Bucky Barnes
I believe
that this was the third (?) movie that was in the Marvel movie release and it
didn’t do as well Iron Man but for me the movie was everything that I love in
superhero movies. It has a great lead in Chris Evans (you will soon find out
that he’s the reason why I fell in love with Captain America).
I will
admit, much like most people, I was nervous about Chris Evans taking over the
role because he had already was Torch in Fantastic Four, but let’s be honest.
He was the only good thing about that movie too.
It’s slow at
the beginning. Gotta build that story of why what makes Steve Rogers Captain
America. That scene where that scrawny version of Rogers gets his butt handed
to him. But let’s stop there for a second. How creepy was it seeing Chris
Evan’s head on someone else’s body. But the CGI for it was pretty good. There
were times when I was like ‘did he actually lose a lot of weight before this
movie?’. Naaahhhhhh. But in enter Sebastian Stan’s Bucky. The kryptonite for Rogers.
Yes I know that’s a Superman reference but this fricken relationship annoys me
to no end. Wait until we get to Winter Soldier and Civil War.
Back to
Captain America.
So yay Bucky
is the hero. He is everything that Rogers wants to be, he is pity friends with
Steve but Steve idolizes him. So what
does he do? He tries to join the Army and gets selected to become superhuman.
Scrawny Steve enters the pod and then he comes out as BAM…Captain America. Then
Peggy lets her bad-ass mask down when she sees him come out.
I mean, can
you blame her?
Now let’s
see if those muscles are good…high speed race…on foot. Peggy shows off her
shooting skills and proves once again why she’s a badass. Now Captain America
Frogger style jumping off cars and then jumping to stop a submarine.
Steve Rogers
is now the hero, but no one wants him to get hurt. So what does Rogers do?
Whatever the Hell he wants. This is going to become a theme for him and while
it’s all noble for him now, this will become the downfall for him later in the
movie.
The villain
Red Skull is fricken weird to look at. I wonder how much is makeup and how much
is mask. Yeah I could watch those behind the scene features, but why ruin the
magic.
Montage of
Captain America being the face for America but of course he doesn’t just want
to be America’s face, his got ass that must take center stage too. He goes in
and decides to complete missions becomes hero to the world and to take down
Hydra.
Now big battle time. But beforehand? SHIELD
TIME! Howard gives the iconic shield made out of vibranium and Captain America goes
on his way to battle the Red Skull. In the battle, the tesseract opens up and Red
Skull gets sucked into Space. Enter sad scene, so get tissues ready. Steve says
good-bye to Peggy before crashing the plane into the water taking the tesseract
with him.
Now to let a
weapon escape him, Howard goes and gets the tesseract and he can’t ‘find’
Captain America. Flash forward (in post credit scene) where Steve wakes up
thinking it’s the 40s only to find out he’s actually in the 2010s.
OH SNAP!
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