a5c7b9f00b During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, &quot;Captain America.&quot; Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie &quot;Red Skull&quot;, Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States. Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against arch-criminal, The Red Skull. To many people bash this movie, and personally, I think it is one of the most faithful adaptations I&#39;ve ever seen from anything to screen for this time period.<br/><br/>THE BAD: The red skull&#39;s look at the end of the movie wasn&#39;t really all that crappy… it just wasn&#39;t the red skull… I have to admit they did take their time to get where they were going in the middle of the movie.<br/><br/>THE GOOD: The good greatly outweighs the bad in this film. Matt Salinger does a perfect rendition of Steve Rogers/ Captain America in his childish &quot;gee whiz&quot; kind of way. The Red Skull&#39;s make up in the first half of the film is breath taking, and Scott Paulin (with a great assist from the script) gives more character depth to the Red Skull than I&#39;ve ever seen in the comics. The opening half hour rushes by with grace, ending with a fantastic battle inside a Nazi stronghold, and the climatic battle between Cap and the skull at the end is also unbelievable. And don&#39;t get me started on the &quot;Pull over. I feel sick.&quot; parts of it.<br/><br/>OVERALL: One of the best comic films out there, even after seeing some of today&#39;s, it&#39;s the perfect adventure for the whole family! I rented this for 50c+tax Canadian and more or less got my money&#39;s worth, but really a few cents more might have tipped the scales. This film felt pretty lifeless and most of it has faded from memory beyond bits and pieces such as:<br/><br/>SPOILERS (next two paragraphs): A perhaps too actively involved President (though notbadIndependence Day on that score), Cap going into suspended animation in his first time out (at least a few battles would have made him seem the legendary figure he&#39;s supposed to be), and a costume that somehow looks weaker than the 1970s TV movie costumes despite being more faithful in design.<br/><br/>I did like the romance aspectfarit went, but according to a magazine article (probably Comics Scene), test audiences got it cut out because they didn&#39;t want Cap to be too involved with an older woman, even if she was his girlfriend before the suspended animation.<br/><br/>Mildly interesting to watch if you&#39;re really curious to see it, but you can do a lot better even if you stick to the superheroes.
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