Captain America
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(Running time: 125 Minutes) Rated PG-13
Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell, Stanley Tucci
Special effects and a gripping story make Captain America, from the comic book, an entertaining movie.
The movie opens with today and almost immediately moves into flashback to WWII. We meet Steve Rodgers (Evans) a scrawny man whose parents were killed in the war. He desperately tries to enlist, but keeps flunking the physical. A German doctor named Erskine (Tucci) picks him for an experiment with a serum that can change his cells and make him stronger than any human. Steve agrees and becomes one buff guy.
Meanwhile, Hydra (Weaving), a bad guy worse than Hitler, is planning to rule the world has also received the same serum. He uses a magic energy cube to create uber-powerful weapons.
The Nazis kill Dr. Erskine. After an act of bravery, Steve is shunted into a publicity program to sell war bonds because without Dr. Erskine, this special program to create others like Steve is also dead. He performs on the stage with a kick line of chorus girls dressed up as “Captain America.” He is ridiculed by the troops for pretending to be a hero. This galls him, so he dons a real uniform and goes out to rescue 400 men who have been taken prisoner by Hydra.
There are some awesome weapons and the battle scenes are amazing as are the special effects, especially making Chris Evans look like a shrunken weakling.
The messages here are mostly good, except for the Steve as the weak guy not being much use in the war effort. There is tons of violence but no blood, no bad language and no sex. This film should be fine for children 11 and up who are not scared by a horrible-looking Hydra when he takes his mask off and his head is red and hideous. See it with them; Captain America is engrossing and well done.
Captain America is another film that leads to The Avengers, a movie yet to be released. If you stay for all the credits there is a clip of The Avengers afterward.
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