ridiculous rating

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against arch-criminal, The Red Skull. How can i describe this film? Well it's bad first of all Red Skull looks awful both in 1943 and 1990 he just looks like a tomato, Captain America is retarded and steals cars for some unknown reason, Ronny Cox is the only good thing from this film but not even he can't save this travesty just the fight scenes with Red Skull and Captain America were awful and for some reason Red Skull knows Kung Fu moves too yeah that happened, the whole origins story is very rushed and totally bland just like the acting and the way that Captain America gets frozen or even when he saves the White House strapped in a missile is so cheesy and so 90's everyone keeps saying that films like Batman Forever, Spawn, Superman 3 and even The Punisher were bad well at least those films did what they meant to do which was to entertain but this film? My god it was awful and thank to god that Captain America: The First Avenger happened in 2011 but this version of the famous Marvel Hero definitely gets an F

This movie begins in Italy just prior to World War 2 with government soldiers breaking into a house to kidnap a young boy and then murdering his family in the process. The reason for the kidnapping is that they need a test subject for an experiment which might allow them to create super-soldiers for their army and dreams of conquest. Yet, even though the experiment is a complete success, the doctor involved in it becomes horrified by the ruthlessness of those she works with and manages to escape to the United States with all of the secrets required to continue her work in her head. She then continues her research in the United States which eventually concludes with the making of a super-hero named "Captain America" (Matt Salinger) to counter the super-villain created in Italy who goes by the name of the "Red Skull" (Scott Paulin). Unfortunately, her success is short-lived as she is assassinated by Nazi agents and the secrets she had dies with her shortly afterward. But with war breaking out both Captain America and the Red Skull soon clash with each other and the story becomes even more pronounced after that. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say this the particular movie lacked the special effects of the more modern Captain America films which clearly resulted in an inferior picture by comparison. Even so, I didn't think the movie was necessarily bad as it still managed to entertain to a certain degree. That being said, I have rated this movie as about average and recommend it to those who enjoy films of this type.

Not to be confused with Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Captain America is a cheaply made adaptation of the now famous Avenger, executive produced by the actual Stan Lee. Given a limited release years after it was initially made, Captain America is about the titular hero's (Matt Salinger) early years fighting the Germans and Italians during WWII. After attempting to sabotage Nazi rocket experiments, spearheaded by arch-nemesis The Red Skull (Scott Paulin), Cap is put on ice and is unfrozen in 1990s. He then is caught up in an assassination plot involving the American President (Ronny Cox).Captain America is a lazy, inept, structure-less low-budget film that never truly reaches the dubious heights of "so bad it's good". Unlike the audaciously ridiculous Fantastic Four (1994) film that was supposedly the last straw for Lee, Captain America is just benignly boring. The film is even more painful when you consider that Matt Salinger is actually trying here. He's not strictly speaking bad as Captain America, he's just out of his depth and undermined at every turn by director Albert Pyun's unflattering visuals. Well at least Captain America finally got a real debut in 2011 thus allowing fans to all but ignore this cheap and boring film.

Back in the mid-90s I watched this film and thoroughly enjoyed it as a child even though Captain America wasn't my favourite superhero. However, out of intrigue in the last few years, I have found out that this movie got a lot of the characters and settings completely wrong. For example when was Red Skull an Italian Fascist? He's always been a Nazi. Still, after watching the excellent 2011 Captain America movie with Chris Evans (not the former DJ) I set out to purchase that film. Picked the DVD and it turned out to be this one instead. Don't get me wrong, it's not as bad as some say however there was a lot of potential wasted. One big problem the film suffers from is that the writers tried to cram every single major moment of Captain America's history into a 90-95 minute film. It dosen't work successfully. Another problem is that the film obviously had severe budget constraints as you can often tell that actors are facing backdrops. Some actors have to even play multiple roles. On the plus side the acting is watchable with a very dark opening (on par with the opening of Xmen). The actor playing Captain America (Matt Salinger, son of author JD) gives a pretty believable performance as does the actor playing Red Skull (Scott Paulin).Its not a bad comic book movie, that title goes to Green Lantern for me. This one just should've stayed close to it's original resource material and not include every major moment of Captain America's history in 90 minutes. Having an ending where it could've been left open for sequels might've been a better idea.5/10