Captain America? Severely Disappointing.

Rating: 3/10 (11 November 2011)

I really like Captain America as a Marvel character. He is very interesting to me. He is intelligent, charismatic, and opinionated. What he is not, is a singing and dancing monkey. I rented this movie a few days ago because I saw Hugo Weaving was in it so I decided I would give it a go. But all the movie turned out to be was a set up, explaining how the f*** he ended up in the modern world with the rest of the Avengers. If it wasn't the overly modernized technology and the villain who was a poor rip-off of the G.I.Joe: Rise of Cobra movie villain (who wasn't particularly intelligent EITHER), I would have to say the downfall of the movie was the musical number. Beyond that fact, it is STILL stuck in my head ("The star spangled man with a plan"). That and (*and this is the spoiler*) he falls and love with this woman, Peggy, and then lands a plane in the arctic and is cryogenically frozen, apparently. He's discovered by us, modern Americans, and then he breaks out, ends up in the middle of Times Square, freaking out, and Nick Fury appears out of nowhere as if traffic didn't exist and tells him he's in the future, to which his response was "...I had a date." And that's the last line of the movie. I assumed that at the very least, he would find 90-year-old Peggy in a nursing home and dance with her. But no, we're left hanging about poor old Peggy and he just chills in the middle of Times Square looking sad and confused. Conclusion: If you never liked Captain America and you just want to watch and obvious set-up for The Avengers movie coming out, then go see this. Otherwise, don't bother.