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- During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America." Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States.
- Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against arch-criminal, The Red Skull.
- I just expected this movie to be bad, reading the reviews, so I saw it in a different perspective...<br/><br/>What went wrong in this movie is simple: Cap was not involved in a worldwide mission to save the universe, he was just there to quest for his origins and of course find the Red Skull...<br/><br/>However, turning this from a WWII perspective into a contemporary story was the big mistake. Hoping Marvel learned from that mistake when they released X-Men in 2000 (and not only from that, but also the Fantastic Four and The Punisher, the latter being released this Spring 2004...).<br/><br/>And worst, it was produced by Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus, the same who did a mess out of Superman 4 !!!!<br/><br/>See it for curiosity, but die-hard Captain America fans should wait for a better story out of Mr (Avi) Arad or Stan "The Man" itself...<br/><br/>(BTW: The 2011 version does justice to Captain America and the Red Skull and did in 2012 in the Avengers... 2014 is the next Cap Movie, and Chris Evans is way better than Reb Brown or Matt Salinger !)
- Before 1998's "Blade," Marvel Comics couldn't seem to catch a break when it came to movie versions of their different properties. In the wake of "Iron Man 3" and "The Avengers," I know that's very hard to believe. There was a serial for Captain America released in 1944 through Republic Pictures. George Lucas executive produced a live-action adaptation of "Howard the Duck" in 1986.<br/><br/>The next few years up to Wesley Snipes' take on the legendary vampire slayer were plagued with low-budget versions of the comic book publisher's characters. Dolph Lundgren's "The Punisher" couldn't even muster a theatrical release in the U.S. Roger Corman's "The Fantastic Four" never officially saw the light of day anywhere, although bootleg copies float around.<br/><br/>21st Century Film Corporation released "Captain America" straight to video in the middle of those two disasters. For many years, the movie was hard to get a hold of and only released on VHS. Shout! Factory released it on DVD and made it widely available to those who sought it out for so many years as a sort of Nerd Holy Grail.<br/><br/>Several years after being caught by Red Skull and left for dead, Steve Rogers is found frozen in the ice and thawed out. He discovers Red Skull received plastic surgery to hide his true identity and is heading up a group of world leaders set on kidnapping the President of the United States for their own diabolical ambitions.<br/><br/>Is "Captain America" filled with cheese? If you judge it from a modern standpoint, of course it is. If you look at it as being a piece of World War II propaganda filmed in the 1940s, you'll find it totally hits its mark. That's the standpoint I choose to view it from.<br/><br/>My only real issue is that we only get about 5 minutes of face time from the real Red Skull. The rest of the film features actor Scott Paulin in flesh-colored make-up topped with scar lines. It's a real letdown for fans of the Red Skull who wanted to see the character the way he looks in the comic books.<br/><br/>I still think that "Captain America" gets way more flack for being cheesy and low budget than it deserves. Is it on the same quality level as "Captain America: The First Avenger?" No way! However, it has an inviting and personal flavor to it that still works 23 years later. Real comic book fans will find value in this adaption and appreciate it for what it is.
- On Disc 2, this already seems to have happened which means it contains the actual Director's Cut: the image quality still sucks but it was at least improved a bit. As a result, some scenes look much better than they do on the first disc. The same goes for the introductory text box in the beginning. The two spelling mistakes from the Commentary Version on disc 1 have been corrected. A further introductory text is only available in this edited version. But more than that (and the actual reason for this comparison), there's an 11-minute-block of scenes in the middle of the movie which is missing in the Commentary Version on disc 1. This means, the entire footage exclusively in the Director's Cut is withheld because the differences in the beginning and end is nothing but recycled footage. a5c7b9f00b
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