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CAPTAIN
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AVENGER: Directed by Joe Johnston.
Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen
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Editors, Robert Dalva and Jeffrey Ford.
Music, Alan Silvestri. Starring Chris Evans,
Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo
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hen you look at the lineup
for next year’s The Avengers,
for which Captain America,
like Thor, is to some degree a very long
preview, you might wonder exactly
how Marvel Studios and Paramount are
choosing which Avengers get their own
fi lms and which don’t. The reason for
Iron Man is clear; it started the whole
thing off, and there’s nothing to complain
about in Robert Downey Jr.’s knowing
performance (though there was plenty
to gripe about in the inane second fi lm).
Why the goofy, musclebound Norse god
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and not Scarlett
Johansson’s slinky Black Widow? Why
Chris Evans (previously known to comic-
movie fans as Fantastic Four’s Johnny
Storm) as Captain America and not
Jeremy Renner, the more interesting actor,
as Hawkeye? Poor Mark Ruffalo, the new
Hulk, never stood a chance, not with two
underperforming Hulk movies already
over and done with.
Not that there’s anything particularly
wrong with Captain America, a solid,
appealing fi lm that establishes Steve
Rogers, the titular captain, as everything
a sniveling little twit like Transformers’
Sam Witwicky is not: self-sacrifi cing,
noble, brave, honest, humble, even fairly
chaste. It’s WWII, and Rogers just wants
to serve his country. His own scrawny
body destroys his chances — until Dr.
Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci, gnawing
at a German accent) sees something
exceptional and determined in the wee lad,
and picks him for an experimental program
intended to create super-soldiers.
It’s no spoiler to tell you that Erskine’s
program works, and Evans’ digitally
shrunken physique turns into the actor’s
real self, all strong jaw and the strength
to match his noble intentions. Thor could
probably still take him in a fi ght, but
Rogers gets a far more appealing love
interest: Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley
Atwell), who’s faced her own share of
career obstacles and can handle a gun as
well as a swift retort.
Along the way to battling Johann
Schmidt (Hugo Weaving), the bad guy who
wants to take over and/or destroy the world,
Rogers encounters a small host of characters
played by a neat list of entirely game
actors. Tommy Lee Jones does his gruff
but sympathetic thing as Colonel Chester
Phillips; always-charming Dominic Cooper
makes an enjoyable Howard Stark, Tony’s
pops; Infamous’ outstanding Toby Jones
appears as a Nazi scientist given access to
some surprising powers. Naturally, Samuel
L. Jackson turns up, because Nick Fury
needs to recruit Captain America and make
our nerdy hearts race for Joss Whedon’s
Avengers. (Don’t leave before the end of the
credits, mmmkay?).
Director Joe Johnston (The Wolfman)
gets Captain America to the goal in good
shape, and writers Christopher Markus
and Stephen McFeely, to their credit, give
us a superhero fi lm in which the female
lead doesn’t need rescuing. Markus and
McFeely also do a clever thing with a
fairly quiet middle portion of the fi lm,
when Rogers has become Captain America
but not yet a soldier. He’s trotted out on a
USO tour, a Hilter-punching, bonds-selling
golden boy. The joke, such as it is, is that
it works, even as the real soldiers mock the
Captain’s tights. The Captain is as effective
a symbol as he is a soldier. The glory is
less, the humility required much greater,
but even as the score booms patriotically
and evil soldiers fall in droves, Captain
America carries an unexpected reminder
that wars are fought in hearts and minds as
well as on battlefi elds.
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