Captain America returns after over a decade on the shelf with a shiny new shield and somewhat less ridiculous costume but is it any less cheesy?Well, yeah but it's no better.Captain Americas origin story is told and after thawing out he goes after his nemesis the Red Skull.Much like the 1970's movies Cap is in civilian clothes for the vast majority of the film which I find a strange decision, the action sequences aren't as frequent but a tad more realistic.Costing over 10 million this was considered a big deal but despite a star studded cast this was actually somewhat of a bore and the leading man seemed out of his depth.Outside of the modern Cap movies I'd recommend the 70's movies over this or the 1944 classic.The Good:Red Skull actually looks quite good (For the brief moments he's in it)The Bad:Matt Salinger is such a goofy looking guy and the mask just makes it worseIncredibly boring for an action filmThings I Learnt From This Movie:Marvel actively declaring one of their heroes is inferior to a DC one seems a bit foolish

I realize that almost all of the bad superhero movies I've seen ("Catwoman", "Steel") were all based on DC properties. I knew I simply had to watch this movie if only because it's the lowest rated film based on a Marvel comic on this entire website. I think my old worst Marvel movie was "Daredevil" and this is easily worse. At least it's a step up from "Killer Tomatoes Eat France!". There are simply so many things wrong with this movie and I am so glad they made a good movie with "Captain America: The First Avenger". While that personally isn't one of my favorite Marvel movies, it's great to compare the two and how the new one is so much better.This one makes the mistake of having a third of it set in World War II, instead of the whole movie. This was set up much better in the recent movie. The special effects are quite poor, with Captain America's shield looking like a giant Frisbee. They couldn't even get the Red Skull right. He has a nose in this movie for some reason, even though it's obvious skulls don't have full noses. He didn't have ears, so why did they get that right but not his nose? There's a scene where Captain America grabs him and the Red Skull cuts off his own hand. Why not just cut Captain America's hand off? The Captain himself is weak and a jerk in this movie. He steals a good guy's car and just leaves him alone on the road! Later, he steals another car. He's easily beaten by the Red Skull when he first appears. This is one pathetic superhero. The Red Skull even forgets that he read a newspaper that the Captain was frozen for decades! He spends most of this movie not even as a skull. They could have at least said he wore a mask instead of some insane plastic surgery. The movie goes on too long and its climax is boring. The Captain was supposed to have polio before the experiment, but he's a perfectly capable tall human being before! This fails on all levels and I have never seen a great comic book company go so low. There's a reason superhero movies are so popular nowadays. They're actually good! *1/2

Probably the worst superhero film of all time. And I've watched all the trash ones, like Green Lantern, Batman and Robin, Catwoman, Elektra, Fant4stic, Superman IV, etc. Now, let's begin with the...Highs: Funny, but unintentionally so.Lows: It's like a parody. A parody of Captain America. Unfortunately, that's not what the director had in mind. Logic was nonexistent in this movie. Remember in Trolls 2 where the kid pees on the food instead of just throwing it away? That is the type of logic in this movie. None whatsoever. Examples: Red Skull is grabbed by Captain America strapped to a rocket. Because Red Skull doesn't want to be taken with the rocket, what does he do?A. Nothing, and let gravity do the work.B. Kill Captain America with the knife in his hand. C. Cut off Captain America's hand. D. Cut off his own hand. Yes, the correct answer is D. Congratulations, Red Skull is the winner for the dumbest supervillain if all time. Also, his face looks like a collection of acne scars. The Captain is no bright bulb either, believe it or not. He steals two cars from the very people who are trying to help him, and in the second instance of car theft, he actually gets stuck because he can't speak Italian. Then the person he just stole from bails him out. The entire scene just kicks karma in the balls. There are some gigantic logical errors that also don't have to do with the characters themselves. In the very beginning, it's early World War 2 and Nazis are going around murdering random Italian families. WTF? The Italians are their allies. It's like America's navy just going around sinking random British cargo ships. Another particularly stupid scene (this movie has a lot of them) is when Cap is strapped to a rocket headed straight for the White House. What does he do? He kicks it off course. You read right. Apparently his kicks also refueled the rocket, since it now has the power to fly all the way to Alaska. That's right. And the stupidity doesn't end there. Another ridiculously braindead scene is the entire end fight. It's.....oh, you'll just need to watch it yourself. Too stupid to convey with words.Other low points in the movie include boring action scenes, plot holes, terrible acting, and general laziness throughout, especially with the costumes. Captain America's eyeholes don't even align with his eyes, and his ears are fake rubber ears. They didn't even bother cutting ear holes into the mask. That's how lazy they were.Verdict: Watch it. You won't regret it, because it's a barrelful of laughs.

Not to be confused with Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Captain America is a cheaply made adaptation of the now famous Avenger, executive produced by the actual Stan Lee. Given a limited release years after it was initially made, Captain America is about the titular hero's (Matt Salinger) early years fighting the Germans and Italians during WWII. After attempting to sabotage Nazi rocket experiments, spearheaded by arch-nemesis The Red Skull (Scott Paulin), Cap is put on ice and is unfrozen in 1990s. He then is caught up in an assassination plot involving the American President (Ronny Cox).Captain America is a lazy, inept, structure-less low-budget film that never truly reaches the dubious heights of "so bad it's good". Unlike the audaciously ridiculous Fantastic Four (1994) film that was supposedly the last straw for Lee, Captain America is just benignly boring. The film is even more painful when you consider that Matt Salinger is actually trying here. He's not strictly speaking bad as Captain America, he's just out of his depth and undermined at every turn by director Albert Pyun's unflattering visuals. Well at least Captain America finally got a real debut in 2011 thus allowing fans to all but ignore this cheap and boring film.