My favourite of the Avengers movies (haven't seen Avengers yet though)

Rating: 9/10 (3 May 2012)

First I have got to say the reason I am writing this is the gut wrenching feeling I got in my stomach of all the bad written reviews of this film by people who just quite frankly don't know comics, understand and from the sounds of it is just the wrong person for anything comic related. This is a comic book movie based on one the oldest marvel super-heroes, a character that was created during the war by one of the legends because she was an exceptionally patriotic man and figured the best way for him to help the effort was make comics about super-heroes and the war. So far most of the bad reviews I've read on this movie focus on a few things which make me face palm. As follows 1. Wtf is this Hydra?! Where are the Nazis?! And similar complaints about red skull being a bad character with no backstory given (even though sufficient backstory is given to his creation) and the movie explains that hydra is a nazi science division, this is not only straight frm comics but straight from the established origin, without hydra there isn't really a captain America 2. Technology too advanced, characters unbelievable in abilities. These people clearly missed the point that this is a marvel comic book movie where the evil villain's plot revolves around a very powerful Norse god energy source....why do you expect realism with that? And really all the weapons did was release that energy in controlled bursts, they didn't develop this new energy source, they found it in the first 10 minutes of the movie. And captain America is a super hero, a super human, that is the point of him, he has unbelievable strength and speed (for a human) if you don't like that, see another movie 3. It's just another America flag waving feel good movie, LAME! seriously I'm a Canadian, and captain America is in my top ten all time favourites, I love my country, my people and I'm not entirely fond of the American military or government, but I love the cap, mostly because he isn't about blind patriotism to the stars and stripes (anymore) and stands for the ideals of the flag, not the flag itself (despite being a walking flag, he more recently went completely against the American government during Marvel's Civil War because of ideals) back during the war this was very much more blatant patriot propaganda basically and very much he was the patriot and if the movie followed that same format I would agree with them , but the movie tries very hard to establish that what makes cap great is his heart, not the flag that's strapped to him and shows the whole captain America thing is literally marketing to sell him. The movie is called captain America, there's a lot of history to the character, respect what he was during the war (also the first comic book movie which was made during the war)
Now that I'm done with why not to listen to most the other bad reviews.
This movie was great, Im a big fan of movies and comics and know that the two won't visually mix well in modern times, so Im fine with slight changes to costumes and designs of characters for the purpose of fitting better in a real world and loved the new cap costume for the movie, it was practical and maintained the classic basic patterning of the suit. Hydra had the biggest change also but if the comic hydra appeared on screen, well it would be bad they are actively mocked for their look in comics, but they still kept key hydra elements in the costumes and I love that, they did an excellent design job. The story was pretty true to cap, probably a biggest change being the addition of stark (tony stark, his father and iron man didn't exist at all though, captain America came decades before him) and Bucky, who was little more than a gun crazed young teenager sidekick, something however Stan lee didn't like cap having, thinking a kid sidekick was reckless and irresponsible and simply unbelievable, so he was killed off in the comics, in the movie they made him older and kept most of the rest which is understandable and fine. And of course there is the great job they did connecting captain to the other movies and the avengers. Basically I'm just saying, this is a comic book movie revolving around a super soldier fighting a fictional force of evil with a fictional literal god power source, if you somehow find that stupid because it's not realistic (even though it never tries to pretend to be) look the other way and find a different movie. This movie is a great comic book movie and in my opinion one of the best comic book movies, a classic character, classic setting, at the very least captain deserves some respect for the history of the character.