Production began in June, and filming took place in London, Manchester, Caerwent, Liverpool, and Los Angeles. The principal characters were cast between March and June 2010. Directors Jon Favreau and Louis Leterrier were interested in directing the project before Johnston was approached in 2008. In 2005, Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch, and planned to finance and release the film through Paramount Pictures. However, a lawsuit disrupted the project and was not settled until September 2003. The film began as a concept in 1997 and was scheduled for distribution by Artisan Entertainment. During World War II, Steve Rogers, a frail man, is transformed into the super-soldier Captain America and must stop the Red Skull (Weaving) from using the Tesseract as an energy source for world domination. The film was directed by Joe Johnston, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, and Stanley Tucci. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Have fun with America's fictional folk lore.Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. So what if it can't hold on to its super power status any longer.
The special effects are of high quality, though as usual the 3-D effects are unnecessary and totally distracting.Īmerica sure knows how to script the best super hero story. Equally charming is his old-fashioned romance with British Officer, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and his relationship with tough officer, Colonel Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones). But thankfully, it never loses the characteristic effervescence and breezy style of comic book narration, focussing more on weird bad guys with wild machines, dreaming of world decimation and domination, even as larger-than-life good guys close in on their heels.Ĭaptain America's encounters with the red-skulled Hydra are explosive and highly entertaining with our all-American hero chasing him on ground and sky with equal ferocity. Like the latest X-Men, Captain America too successfully uses World War II as a dramatic backdrop to its super hero story, thereby lending gravitas to comic book antics. But he does have a lot of heart and brings an integrity to his role as he metarmophoses from scrawny side hero Steve Rogers to towering inferno Captain America. Of course, Chris Evans doesn't have the chutzpah of and sardonic charm of Robert Downey Jr which makes Iron Man a rockstar amongst superheroes. Movie Review: He's almost like Iron Man, this new Marvel comic's hero, Captain America. It doesn't take long for Captain Rogers, now christened Captain America to emerge a brave and brawny symbol of American superpower as he takes on the might of the evil German scientist Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving), now known as the mighty Hydra - even mightier than Hitler himself. Enter Dr Erskine (Stanley Tucci), a military scientist who recognises his true qualities (valour, coupled with goodness) and chooses to transform him into a super soldier with his special serums and his invincible metal shield. But he is consistently rejected due to his skinny, diminutive and unfit physical condition. Brooklyn boy Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is desperate to enlist in the US army and play his part in defeating the Nazis.