Hi, this is finally Sunday, my last chance to update, let's go! You can find more movie reviews here SchoolJournal. Today is time for more Superhero Movies!!


As stated in my previous post, I am very fond of superhero movies, it's my type of movie. I watched it on Friday immediately when it premiered. I have to watch all of the independent avengers movie one by one before watching the ensembled avengers movie. Now, I am looking for the Hulk movie :)

My list:
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Thor
Captain America
The Avengers

Did you know despite being the first avenger, Captain America was the last avenger movie to be released and that this is the last movie to be distributed by Paramount? [unnecessary].
The movie was set around WWII. Steve Rogers (Captain America) was a very scrawny boy that hates bullies or walking away from a fight. He signed up for soldier recruitment but was rejected (5 times!). Meanwhile, Johann Schmidt the leader of HYDRA an intel group for Hitler, was looking for something called the tesseract.

Steve Rogers was then recruited and was turned into a super soldier (because a weak man knows power and will not take it for granted :) ). He managed to save people from one of the HYDRA's member, but he still wasn't acknowledged since he was just an experiment. One day when his friend, Bucky, was captured, he went looking for him. He brought back every captured soldier and saved Bucky. For acknowledgement, he then made his own group. He then got a new shield (thanks to Howard Stark, who also resembles his son a lot) and became good friends with Peggy Carter (who was his love interest too, she was very masculine which is awesome).

During an encounter with Johann Schmidt, the Captain found out that Schmidt was also injected with the serum and Schmidt revealed to the Captain his red skull and the name Red Skull (btw, he didn't have nose and ear too!).

During the final battle, Red Skull was killed when he touched the tesseract, and the Captain had to land the plane (which they were both in) at the Arctic and was in a deep sleep in the ice.

Then it showed 70 years later, the Captain had awaken in present time New York City.
Let's see what the critics know:

Rottentomatoes: 78%

With plenty of pulpy action, a pleasantly retro vibe, and a handful of fine performances, Captain America is solidly old-fashioned blockbuster entertainment.

Roger Ebert: 3 stars.

"I enjoyed the movie. I appreciated the 1940s period settings and costumes, which were a break with the usual generic cityscapes. I admired the way that director Joe Johnston propelled the narrative. I got a sense of a broad story, rather than the impression of a series of sensational set pieces. If Marvel is wise, it will take this and Iron Man as its templates".

For me the movie was great, better than Thor, but I still prefer Iron Man over this. It also have some meaningful morale in it and I think Steve Rogers is a person that everybody can look up to. So, 4/5 stars.  It has comedy, action, and cool effects :)

By the way, this was not the surprise review I was going for :)

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Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_First_Avenger
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain-america/
http://rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110720/REVIEWS/110729997

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Hello, my name is Theresa, but I use the pen name TCGunsou. I live in Indonesia. I am currently on the 9th grade. I enjoy drumming, playing computer, watching movies and many more. My birthday is on February 3rd. I also have a sister who inspired me to make a blog.

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