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To me, this is the definitive had to be there movie. They had to make this movie so Captain America could show up in later movies, and it had to be during WWII unless they wanted to squeeze the WWII stuff into another movie they made the right call by not doing that, but this movie is just so much nothing.

StifledSilence
This is a very solid start to Caps story. I loved all the WW2 era throwbacks and aesthetics. I enjoyed the action as a whole. ButI dunno. It felt like it was missing a little something. Was it more Bucky I needed? Or was it less creepy looking skinny boy Chris Evans CGI I needed? Im not entirely sure. But still, great movie overall.

ZenOfThunder
Sometimes I will hum "Star Spangled Man with a plan" to myself. I love Captain America as a character. This one is not perfect but I always get amped watching it.

PrinceKaro
When a scrawny soldier is given some experimental steroids, he is transformed into Captain America, the living embodiment of the old-timey values that only exist in the minds of republicans.
The film takes place during World War 2, so Cap heads off to kick some Nazi ass because by jiminy, this is America and we'll never let fascists take over our... um wait...
...ah fuck.
Some elements of the film (particularly hydra scenes) feel campy in the manner of the comics of the 1940s and this is actually part of the movie's charm, but as the story goes on things gets tiresome, largely due to Steve being such a super boy scout. While in later movies he has the naive fish out of water thing with him, here he is just too perfect and flawless and he is very hard to relate to once he eats his wheaties and stops being the plucky underdog.
It is a decent origin story, but not really much else, and pretty much everything the film does Wonder Woman does better. A lot better.

Raka Putra
Probably one of the better origin stories. The movie blended war movie with superhero movie quite well, methinks. Also I like the character of Steve Rogers although he's just an overgrown boy scout.

Inviso
For a long time, I was nervous about actually seeing this film because I wasnt sure Id be able to enjoy the time jump, but it wound up being really good. I think the film did a great job of justifying Steves character progression by establishing him as the son of a military man who just wanted to serve his country against evil, largely because he had experience fighting off bullies due to his small size. Of the phase one heroes were introduced to, I feel like hes the first real paragon we get, and yet the movie doesnt make him boring as a straight-up good guy. His boy scout nature is almost played for laughs in just how morally righteous he is, and it makes his heroism all the greater. Also, in a lot of these movies, it feels like in order to develop the hero, you also have to spend time developing the villain, which means cutting corners with the heros development. But I feel like Red Skull gets just the right amount of characterization so as not to detract from Captain Americas journey. Even the Bucky and Carter stuff, while a BIT underutilized time-wise, was still given just enough to work with as a solid start to establishing Captain America as a franchise-leader.

Red13n
I kind of want to like this movie more than I do, but for a lot of the time this movie kind of drags. A lot of MCU movies will buck the trend later on by not boring us with an origin story, but we weren't there at this point. We're stuck with wimpy Steve Rogers for too long, then sidelined Cap for what feels like just as long. There are some good bits here and there, plenty of setup for things in the MCU that will come back, but this is a movie that wont leave you feeling like it isn't just another origin story.

Maniac64
Another movie I feel like I enjoy more than many people do. The start is stlow but I think it does a good job of setting up the kind of person Captain America is. I really enjoyed the pole thing where he uses his brain while everyone else just thinks physical. Did the Propaganda war bonds stuff go to long? Yes. Did Red Skull need more time and development? Yes. Do I wish they would eventually tell us where the tesseract weapons were sending everyone? Yes. But its still an entertaining super hero movie. I did enjoy seeing Howard Stark in his prime and they did a good job with the doomed romance and Bucky. Dum Dum Duggan was a real disappointment though, I wish he were better.

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