Captain America: The First Avengers

Another comic hero for the year 2011 and it's the second for Marvel comics. Truly awesome for this geek whose into movies and comics. Even though war movie isn't my genre but comic hero movies is my top favorite genre.

Chris Evans extinguished his flames and picked up a shield as Steve Rogers/Captain America. The show sets during the second world war and centers on the development of skinny little Steve to a hunky super serum injected Captain America. Similar to the Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, Chris Evans underwent digital "plastic surgery" to portray the skinny Steve.

The show features all sorts of references from the Marvel world such as vibranium(the material of the shield), the Howling Commandos, Tony Starks father and even Stan Lee. Marvel movies would not be complete without Stan Lee.

The actions are quite sufficient and explosions are plenty especially for a war movie. Hugo Weaving sure does make a bad@$$ villain in most movies, same goes here as the Red Skull leader of Hydra. It's just hilarious whenever the troops chants "Hail Hydra!".

And like most Marvel Movies, stay tune for the post credits scenes. It may not be much but it keeps you in the loop of the next Marvel continuation. I wondered how the Cosmic Cube scene in Thor was related to Captain America thinking it would likely refer more to the Avengers but the show revolve mostly around it. As a plus point, there's also the official Avengers trailer at the very end.

Ratings: 4