Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (28 October 2011)

A scientist harnesses Odin's power and creates two super soldiers: Schmidt/Red Skull (Weaving) the bad soldier who wants to take over the whole world and Steve Rogers/Captain America (Evans), the good soldier who is committed to stopping Red Skull.
So they take this 98 pound weakling and put him into a box and press some levers and buttons and noises erupt and things shake and lights explode and out comes someone who looks like Chris Evans. How good is that?
How they made Chris Evans look like a 98-pound weakling is pure movie magic. I thought someone else played that part, someone who looked like Evans. Not so. It was him.
There are a lot of good funny lines in here especially in the beginning.
Before this movie I had no idea about Captain America. Don't recall any comic books but there must have been some. I was entertained, but yes, there was some hokey, sappy dialogue but you had to expect that. Hey, this was the 1940s and that is where all the hokey and sappy dialogue started. Still you believed because you are patriotic. Buy that? I did.
The cinematography and stunts and CGI were simply terrific. The acting performances were also very good all around.
(Bob, really. Odin's power?) Hey, that is what I heard in the beginning or something like that. Watching those weapons that Red Skull developed sure made me believe Odin's power was used. Don't ask me how. Hey, this movie magic. Deal with it.
Downside? Yes, the ending begged many questions. It was clever, but no one can sleep 70-years without having aged unless he was in a cryogenic capsule. Still it was clever. All in all very entertaining.
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.