Captain America The First Avenger (2011)

Product Description
Captain America leads the fight for freedom in the action-packed blockbuster starring Chris Evans as the ultimate weapon against evil! When a terrifying force threatens everyone across the globe, the world’s greatest soldier wages war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull (Hugo Weaving, The Matrix). Critics and audiences alike salute Captain America: The First Avenger as “pure excitement, pure action, and pure fun!” – Bryan Erdy CBS-TV

Special Features
- Commentary by Director Joe Johnston, Director of Photography Shelly Johnson and Editor Jeff Ford
- Two Behind-the-scenes Featurettes
- Sega Game Trailer
- The Avengers Animated Trailer

Customer Reviews
A fantastic introduction to Captain America By Pedro L. Cruz (Lakeland, FL)
This is a fantastic introduction to one of Marvel's best characters. The filmmakers got everything right as far as tone, look, and feel of the Captain America mythos. Definitely recommended.

Loved It By koolz03
This movie was terrific and didn't lose my interest once. The acting, effects and storyline were well done. Thumbs up! Bring on the Avengers!

The Best SuperHero Movie By Terry Wofford (Georgia, USA)
To be honest this is the first Superhero movie I've watched since Superman 3 I was never much of a comics fan except for Captain America. This movie is fantastic, true to the original story in most ways and adapted great. A must see for Cap fans.

Captatin America: The First Avenger By Bunjamin
Great Fantasy hero movie. Keeps your attention to the movie. The main actor was good, and so was the leading lady as I call her. Great story line. Can't wait for #2 movie to come out.

Great movie By Average Joeski
Loved it. Not sure why it got some negative reviews. I'm mostly adding my two cents to counter balance someones one star review. My five stars are for real though. Loved it.

Really good By john washington
This was another really solid movie from Marvel. I thought Thor was fine, but the first half of the movie was a bit slow. Capt. doesn't suffer the same fate. The beginning had plenty of character intro, but more drama. The cinematography was great, the colors, set design etc was done very well, it felt like watching a Norman Rockwell painting. It was patriotic without being sarcastic or ironic, and the acting was really good overall, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving,Stanley Tucci, can't beat them. And Haley Atwell...wow, just beautiful. The small Capt. CGI was flawless as well, they spend plenty of time with him so his transformation is that much more jarring. There's a propeller scene ala Indianna Jones that might not be for the little ones but overall, definitely recommended.

This is such a wonderful movie!! By Michael R. Brown (Nashville, TN USA)
Let me start by saying I've been one of the biggest Captain America fans since 1973. I was 9 and since then have faithfully collected all his comics, what little merchandise I could pick up along the way and waited faithfully knowing someday he would get his own big budget movie, done right!! As a kid, i did enjoy the corny tv movies NBC made, tried to enjoy the 1991 movie with Matt Sallinger (but couldnt)and I was on pins and needles for this one. Went opening weekend with my son and came out smiling ear to ear!!!

The acting, script, directing all come together in such a way it's easy to forgive the couple of minor story flaws that deviate from the comic history. I am so proud of the movie and I just hope everyone enjoys it. It's not one of the cliched superhero and his neurotic past movies we've been overwhelmed with the last few years. It's truly an enjoyable family action movie any Captain America fan can be very proud of. I'm not going into story details because I don't want to give anything away but I am so thankful for this movie!!! I can't wait to see him in the Avengers movie next year. Good times ahead for Cap!!!!

Great Movie By Patrick Westmoreland (Tennessee)
This is overall a great movie. Acting is sometimes arkward (especially when Chris Evans is in that stupid-looking Cap Costume selling War Bonds), but overall good. There's TONS of action. The featurettes are especialy interesting. My only complaint concerns one of the featurettes: The Assembly Begins. My first thought was "making of featurette." Turns out, its another tease for the upcomong movie The Avengers. Other than that, its a pretty good deal on a great movie. I highly recommend this movie for anyone who loves these 3 things: 1) superhero movies, 2) lots of action, and 3) a good movie in general.

Hero Transformed By L. M. Jordan
My wife and sons saw this when it was in theaters and said I would enjoy it. "I'll see it when it comes out on video", was my reply. I realize now that I missed out not only on a tremendously fun theater experience, but also on an object lesson on the value of character. C.A. successfully transforms the comic book hero into a man. The defining moment for our superhero occurs just before he undergoes the treatment. Dr. Erskine asks, "You must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man."

Other pluses: An array of well-developed characters in spite of its genre, a nascent love story effectively carried off by the actress Hayley Atwell, and the defeat of evil personified convincingly by Hugo Weaving.

C.A. is an enjoyable reminder in our jaded age that honor and sacrificial love are "super-hero" values that do make a difference. May we all be so transformed.

Fantastic! This movie has heart By als3rd
Aside from the plot development, acting and (for me) the nostalgia factor, this movie was pure fun!!! One of the most incredible things was was changing the skinny short Steve Rogers by hitting him with the "Vita Ray" (what a hoot!), that transforms him into Captain America. Like I said, great acting, funny, top notch cast (must have been a HUGE budget!), great direction and writing, STAGGERING special effects... Buy it!!