Started out good and then plateaued.

Rating: 6/10 (23 July 2011)

(Spoilers in my review will all be marked ahead of time.) I don't know much about Captain America unlike other comics, so I was interested and excited to see it. I went into the movie with an open mind... The movie starts out good, with a good story and good character development, but shortly after Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) becomes Captain America (i wont say anymore about that so as not to spoil any of the story), the story kind of goes into a slump until all that is left is pretty much just action. It was like taking a balloon, filling it half way up with air and then letting it deflate. Disappointing.
Plus Captain America was more like Captain Invincible. Nothing was challenging for him at all, not even the villain. I will go more into detail in the next paragraph. It was equivalent to playing a video game with God Mode cheats enabled. Also when we do get to the main villain (Hugo Weaving), we get a tiny smidgen of story about him, and thats pretty much it. I was very disappointed in the lack of effort by the writers, who got off to a good start, and then kind of seemed to stop trying. Captain America was my least favorite of the Avengers movies (Iron Man 1 & 2, The Incredible Hulk, & Thor.) I give Captain America an R for Retarded. lol. Just kidding. 6.0/10.0
PS!!!! - Stay after the credits for a first look at the upcoming Avenger Movie!! Sweet!!
The rest of my review (except for the last paragraph) ***contains spoilers!!*** -- OK so after the first 20mins/half hour about tiny Steve Rogers and him being chosen, everyone (scientists and the military)is very excited and highly anticipating the transformation of Steve into the first super soldier (Captain America) and when they finally do it, they're reaction is basically like 'huh, thats neat', and then kind of don't care anymore. Like watching the fireworks of the fourth of July, its amusing but when its over you go home and nothing changes. They put him in some ridiculous costume and make him preform on a stage with dressed up chicks dancing, with a cheesy rhyming script and choreography, as a literal mascot of the army. And they make him do it like hundreds of times, and he doesn't seem to care, even though he wanted to fight in the army like his whole life. Like some ape they experimented on, had a break through, and then threw him in the circus. It was a major (and very strange) side track. Then he finds out someone he knows is behind enemy lines, and decides to go fight.
***Spoilers continue*** Then he becomes unstoppable. He fights his way through the rest of the movie without any challenge at all. Even the final battle between him and the villain (The Red Skull) isn't challenging. Its basically a fist fight, and then -Major Spoiler- ***the villain accidentally vaporizes himself. Like woops. I guess I shouldn't have grabbed that glowing all-powerful energy cube with my bare hands huh?*** Speaking of which, the energy cube that the Red Skull uses to power all his weapons is an ancient energy cube. They never explain what it is, where it came from, or what it was meant for. He just finds it and gets his scientist to manipulate its energy. And the Red Skull is basically relying on his one single scientist to solve all his problems, and he covers the costs. He has one plan to conquer the world, and no back up plan at all. So when Captain America starts to destroy his like 5 or 6 headquarters, he doesn't really know what to do other than watch and run.
***Spoilers continue*** And as far as his abilities... He basically has a red face and can punch hard. Those are literally his only two special "abilities". Plus we don't find anything out about who he is, where he came from, why he wants to conquer the world, etc... All we find out is that he injected himself with an earlier version of what Steve is eventually dosed with, which made him a little stronger... and then burned his face off. Thats pretty much it. (Eyes roll). In the end, the Red Skull is more an inconvenience than a foe.
All in all, while the graphics and action were good, the story was underdeveloped and disappointing - Captain America was an entertaining no-brainer flick worth watching once... on DVD. 6/10. (OK) :/