Dir. Joe Johnston (2011)
Rated PG-13 Captain America, AKA Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), lives in 1940s America during WWII. He is short, scrawny and weak, and all he wants to do is join the army but gets rejected every time. He's resorted to lying on his application to apply multiple times, knowing that if he gets caught he will get sent to jail. His life changes when he runs into Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci), who gives him a chance. He enlists Steve in the army, despite his struggle to keep up with the other recruits, because he sees something different in him. During training, when a fake grenade is thrown on the ground, everyone runs but Steve. He throws himself on top of it to protect others. He is a genuine, morally good human, and this is what persuades Dr. Erskine to make Rogers the subject of his experiment. Rogers is to undergo Project Rebirth, designed by Dr. Erskine to make Rogers into a superhuman with incredible strength, speed, and power. The whole idea behind Rebirth is that it enhances strength in people, so the good get better and the bad worsen. This is why Rogers is chosen: he has the good moral character, so when he is given the power he will be enhanced into a hero to fight in the war. The experiment is successful, and right after Rogers is transformed, Erskine is murdered by a German HYDRA agent, which is a top secret research department in Nazi Germany run by Schmidt, an evil dictator who has the powers of the tesseract (a powerful cube of sorts) and uses it to ruthlessly murder his enemies. Rogers is angered and in want of revenge, and after being made a show pony and puppet for war recruitment, finally shapes up to fight against Schmidt and defeat HYDRA. I enjoyed this one for the most part. The story was really interesting and I followed it pretty well, I think. I get how every movie references the other Avenger movies, because the tesseract with in Thor's dad Odin's greatest prize and it was in Asgard in some giant vault. I guess it got robbed so then Schmidt had it? That's unclear but was or will be probably explained somewhere else. First thing: the CGI in this movie KILLED me. Evans' small weakly body in the first part of the movie looked so fake it made me cringe, so I'm glad that didn't last for long. His head moved but his body didn't. I couldn't take him seriously. Anyways, I really liked Rogers for the most part, except there were times when he got really righteous about himself and thought he was God's gift to mankind. I guess he had an excuse, because he actually did defeat HYDRA and Schmidt, but he didn't have to be so self centered at times. This movie really reminded me of Wonder Woman for some reason; probably because they were both fighting in either WWI or WWII, and the Schmidt was kinda similar to Aries. Also, there were so many sad parts in this movie! Are Marvel movies supposed to be sad? Bucky DEFINITELY did not have to die, that was so unnecessary. For some reason I loved their friendship and was expected that to be a constant in the series. Guess not.... and I'm sensing a recurring theme of the hero never ending up with their love interest. I really did not love the ending, because he just slept for 70 years and totally missed out on being with Peggy. And Peggy was COOL. I liked her a lot better than Jane, because she had so much more development and a better personality and was all around a stronger character. I felt like she had a lot more purpose in the movie and for sure thought she would be in the rest of the movies, (or maybe she will? No one will tell me anything when I ask questions like these). When Rogers woke up, he was all bummed and all he said was "I had a date" and then it just ends. I hope somehow Peggy resurfaces or something because I loved her. I guess I shouldn't get my hopes up though, because with any series people that you love die, and then you feel dead inside. Overall, I really liked this movie. Hopefully I like the other characters as much as I did Captain America, and from what I can tell already, I can tell that Marvel makes these characters pretty lovable. I can see why everyone is such a fan.
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