Old=fashioned hokum

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2011)

CAPTAIN America, with its WW2 setting and set-piece chases, reminded me of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - and also of Dick Barton on the radio ("the wireless", as we called it back in the 1940s!).
The transformation of Chris Evans (why is that name unfortunate to an English ear?) from scrawny nerd to super-hunk was a jolly piece of pseudo-science, but as Captain America Evans seemed a bit bland (super-heroes all too often are). I liked Hugo Weaving's Nazi mega-villain who looked like Dr No and had an accent somewhere between Doctor Strangelove and Doctor Kissinger.
The plot seemed stretched rather thin in places and despite 3D and some cutting-edge CGI, the whole thing is a slightly old-fashioned slice of hokum likely to appeal more to the older generation - do they do superhero movies?