Captain America: The First Avenger
2011  PG-13  ACTION  2h 4min
CAST— Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, Stanley Tucci
MUSIC— Alan Silvestri  DIRECTOR— Joe Johnston  BASED ON— Characters appearing in Marvel Comics

     Another slam-bang entry in the mighty Marvel manner. Chris Evans stars as Steve Rogers, a puny guy from Brooklyn whose goal is to enlist in the army and turn the tide of WWII. Due to physical limitations he is promptly denied enlistment; but what he lacks in brawn he makes up for in determination. A government scientist sees his potential and signs Rogers up for a top secret experiment, one that transforms Rogers into a hybrid of Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Wayne. Now dubbed Captain America, he fights for freedom against the ruthless Nazi organization Hydra and their deranged leader Johann Schmidt, aka Red Skull (his moniker is pretty much self explanatory). Equal parts WWII film and action-packed sci-fi extravaganza this is the last of Marvel’s origin stories that lead into The Avengers (2012). ‘Nuff said… for now. AKA The First Avenger.
OUR RATING— ***
ORIGINAL— Captain America (1979/1990)
PRECEDED BY— Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011)
FOLLOWED BY— The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)