Best Superhero Film of 2011: easily this is the line I would use on the new Marvel addition of Captain America. When I heard Chris Evans was cast I was overjoyed. Evans was the only thing good about the Fantastic Four Films and his acting in the Danny Boyle film Sunshine made me a fan. The outfits are perfect for the era and dark hero era we are in. The Period Piece is perfect and origin story is great (there are no dead parents to avenge or long lost love)...the pacing I thought would be a slow beginning like most superhero origin films...but the technical marvel of shrinking Chris Evans proved to be the right move...its not creepy like in a Benjamin Button way. The Enemy is perfect with Hugo Weaving as the Hydra leader (still not as bad as real life bad guy Adolf Hitler)...the film is funny and has a great sense of action...I kept thinking this was the PG-13 version of Inglorious Basterds (rag tag team on a hunt for Nazis)....they surely have the cliches like the grizzled veteran Tommy Lee Jones who is tough on old Cap...but Jones is funny as heck in this film...Even side Kick Bucky was pretty freaking Awesome...the love interest is good and believable...unlike in Green Lantern ...This is a definite PLUS....BUT...
The dark cloud is hanging over this film...
1st: Is it the best Comic Hero Film?..NO..Dark Knight in my opinion is #1...so Captain America is like a slight shade behind the original Iron Man...Iron Man 2 was very weak and maybe stains the original...Cap is close to Iron Man in the fun and excitement...but Iron Man did not have to have THE DARK CLOUD OF...
2nd: The Avengers Cloud has fallen:...Iron Man stands as a clear stand alone film...then came Hulk (which Marvel ignores because of Ed Norton)...then Iron Man 2...then the link with Thor and now Captain America has no way...no possible way to stand as its own film as it was released by Marvel...we have to link all these films together so that The Avengers will make sense...That to me ruins Captain America...or at least makes it a lesser film then Iron Man...the keys to the stain on Cap is this Cosmic Cube and Asgard and Tony Star's father and the other hints and clues throughout that take us out of the Captain America and force us to see this film as part of a series (maybe that's a good thing because comics do this all the time..but Film?)...even the start and ending and the ending after the credits make me feel like I need two versions of Captain America...the film is so good I want to see it with no reference to the Avengers...which may turn out to be terrible (maybe thats the plan to eventually make me double dip and buy two versions of every marvel film...which I would be a sucker and do I must admit)...
3. Last bash on Cap...there is one scene where Cap is on a motorcycle and gonna kick some Hydra Ass...he takes a ramp /CUT/ then lands/CUT...we never see the entire jump...how hard would it be to have some stunt guy on a cycle jump a ramp and land...it would have looked freaking awesome...but instead we get a jump cut...that's like watching porn with no screwing and only money shots...
So Captain America is Awesome...go see it and be freaking patriotic about it
