I Salute Captain America the First Avenger

A Review with Spoilers behind the cut and possibly in the comments

Yesterday Caroline and I went into the city for a couple of reasons but the impetus was the Marvel Screen of Captain America for Marvel Staff and assorted others. I ended up talking in line to Dan Slott about various and sundry things. I swear he has an almost photographic memory for people he has met during his career and where they are now. Before the movie I got to spend some time talking to Chris Claremont about all kinds of things but that is usually how conversations with Chris go.

Overall I enjoyed it a lot. It is the perfect summer popcorn flick with a heroic Hero and Bad Baddies to Boo.

They had some nice 3-D tricks but nothing that made me go “must see in 3-D” but there are some good wow moments.

The cast was uniformly good. The visuals were stunning. It did feel like an old style war movie with a healthy dose of jingoism.

And the number of nods they got in for what has been done with Cap in the past was truly amazing. You could tell who knew their Captain America and who didn’t by where some of the laughs fell. It was a Marvel screening so we probably were laughing harder at some stuff than a regular audience would but you could still tell.

There is a really good Stan “the man” Lee cameo and you really really need to stay through the credits on this one.

I am grateful that we made the time to go in and see Captain America.

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