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Throughout the MCU ’s Phase One , the core six member of the Avengers were introduced to moviegoing audiences ( four of them in their own movies and the other two in supporting role ) out front of their groundbreaking ensemble squad - up . The one that most overtly sets upThe Avengers , Captain America : The First Avenger , state the WWII - set origin story of the team ’s star - bespangle leader .
It ’s far from a perfect motion-picture show , but as a superhero smash hit , The First Avengeris more than fun enough to be worth the cost of admission price . The movie did a lot of things correct , but it also nonplus a few things wrong .
Right: Casting Chris Evans As Steve Rogers
Right off the bat , the heavy originative decision behindCaptain America : The First Avengeris the cast of the title role . Across his eight - twelvemonth MCU role arc , Chris Evans would prove himself to bethe most perfect actor to play Steve Rogers .
That discharge got off to a terrific commencement inThe First Avenger , as Evans made scenes like Steve jumping on a grenade and Cap ’s sacrifice in the ice as emotionally compelling as they postulate to be .
Wrong: Red Skull’s Thin Characterization
InCaptain America : The First Avenger , Red Skull wants to get a clutch of an Infinity Stone so that he can be an all - powerful warmonger who will win World War II for the bad bozo .
How many time have we seen this form of scoundrel before ? There are certainlymore than a few in the MCU alone . Red Skull ’s fragile picture inThe First Avengerwas an baleful early sign ofthe franchise ’s now - infamous “ villain problem . ”
Right: Pulpy Tone
With automatonlike soldier , a cartoonish villain , and no actual Nazis in sight , Captain America : The First Avengerisn’t as bleak a portrait of the horrors of the Second World War as picture show likeSaving Private RyanorDunkirk , but it did n’t need to be .
rather of trying to assure a superhero story in a naturalistic World War II stage setting , Joe Johnston directed the picture as a comic script version of a WWII moving picture , with a delightfully pulpy tone .
Wrong: Pre-Serum Steve’s Weird CGI Body
Early inCaptain America : The First Avenger , before Steve Rogers is give the super soldier serum and becomes the star - spangle world , he ’s unretentive and tightfitting .
VFX company Lola did as good a Book of Job as they could of making Chris Evans look little and weak , but it appear altogether affected and mostly slips into the eldritch vale , because we know he ’s really tall and musclebound .
Right: Creative Second Act
The second human activity is often where movies stumble – in particular Hollywood blockbuster that rigidly stick to the three - act formula – because it ’s both the long and least clearly defined of the act . The first act is all about setup and the third is all about closing , but the second is just everything in between .
But the second act ofThe First Avengeris creative and engaging . After becoming Captain America , Steve Rogers is n’t sent out to war . In fact , the experiment is deemed a failure and he ’s turned into a propaganda tool . He only have to fight when he adopt it upon himself to salvage some P.O.W.s at the midpoint .
Wrong: Stilted Pacing
The pacing ofThe First Avengercan’t decide on a steady rhythm . Some secret plan point move at a painfully slow rate , while the motion-picture show rockets through other patch point at a breakneck pace without stopping the olfactory sensation the rose .
For example , when Cap is being used as a tool of propaganda , a fate of screenland time is dedicated to his moping . When he finally receive to see action , the movie jump through his former valor in a montage .
Right: Scene-Stealing Supporting Actors
While Chris Evans undoubtedly steals the show inCaptain America : The First Avenger , he ’s surrounded by fantastic supporting actors like Hayley Atwell and Tommy Lee Jones yield their own riveting performance .
Plus , Sebastian Stan ’s stint in the function of Bucky Barnes got off to a promising start , even if his emotionally engaging death scene ended up being a fake - out .
Wrong: Unnecessary 3D Conversion
On its initial theatrical button , The First Avengerwas screened in three-D , but it was n’t shot in 3D. It was converted to 3D in post - output , and it comes off that style .
None of the movie ’s 3D effect were anything to write dwelling about – even when Cap frisbees his shield straight at the camera – so the conversion was exclusively unneeded . It ’s no marvel three-D has decreased in the last few years .
Right: Perfect Ending
on the face of it , the original programme for Captain America ’s MCU debut was to localize the first half of the picture show during World War II before switching to the present twenty-four hours for the second half .
gratefully , the movie maker modify those plan . Cap ’s forfeit made for the perfect worked up coming , while fire up up in the present twenty-four hour period and tell Nick Fury , “ I had a date , ” was the perfect termination for the movie .
Wrong: Existing Only To Set Up The Avengers
Pretty much all of the MCU ’s Phase One entries leading upThe Avengersserve only to set up Marvel ’s ambitious supersized crossover effect . It ’s hard to get excited about a movie that exists only to set up a vainglorious , more exciting motion picture .
A couple of them , likeIron Man , manage to stand up on their own two feet as standalone works , but as the claim would suggest , that ’s not the causa withCaptain America : The First Avenger , which at times feels like a bloatedAvengersteaser laggard .
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