Fun old-fashioned comic book brought to life

Rating: 8/10 (18 July 2012)

This is what I want from my comic book movie adaptations. Captain America is fun, amusing, lively and well paced, with solid character development and a lot of nice action. This movie completely captures the comic book vibe, and has a 1940s movie-serial quality reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark. (My appreciation of it was increased by having watched the rather soggy Thor the previous day.)
The funny thing is, I never liked Captain America when I was a kid. He was so stodgy and bland and square-chinned and All-American. I normally prefer angsty X-Men-style superheroes, so I wasn't really that hopeful that I would enjoy this. But I enjoyed it tremendously.