{"id":48680,"date":"2014-12-07T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T01:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011-2.html"},"modified":"2014-12-18T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:15:05","slug":"movie-review-captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Captain America: The First Avenger" (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My enthusiasm for this as one of the great comic book films has gone down over the years, but it's still a greatly entertaining comic book flick, despite a sketchy overall narrative, a disparate series of parts, and a rather forced set-up for Captain America in The Avengers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA ★★★½ review of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)<\/a><\/span>
\nI always like this film better watching it than I remember liking it. Partly that’s because it’s a combo of multiple plots — the origin tale, the stage production, the war hero — and all of that tied up in the core story of the Red Skull vs. Captain America. These bits and bobs are disparate enough tonally that they fragment the movie as a whole. Coupled with the dubious rationale behind the conclusion (the plane crash), and the lack of a solid…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My enthusiasm for this as one of the great comic book films has gone down over the years, but it's still a greatly entertaining comic book flick, despite a sketchy overall narrative, a disparate series of parts, and a rather forced set-up for Captain America in The Avengers. A ★★★½ review of Captain America: The … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Captain America: The First Avenger" (2011)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41235,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/movie-review-captain-america-the-first-avenger-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":48680,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Captain America: The First Avenger" (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Feb-14 9:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And father-daughter movie week concludes with a rewatch of the first Captain America movie, in prep for the sequel in a very short time.Good stuff.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) It certainly holds up to a rewatch. 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