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(Courtesy www.comingsoon.net) (Comic-Con) Captain America - It doesn't get any more patriotic than this Hollywood, CA - First Green Lantern lights up the box office with one of the most anticipated summer blockbuster comic book heroes, now another- Paramount Studios with Captain America: The First Avenger Based on the Marvel Comics character from World War II. A brave, yet mild-mannered young soldier named Steve Rogers, volunteers to undergo a series of experiments for a US army Super Soldier program. The military succeeds in transforming him into a human weapon, but quickly decide that their Super Soldier is far too expensive a creation to risk in combat. So, they decide to put him to use as an army celebrity and parade him across Europe to boost morale by performing in USO shows for American troops. He is even given a costume that bear the colors of Old Glory for the stage. Then, when a Nazi plot reveals itself Rogers must rise up and and become the First Avenger, in order to save his country. Steve Rogers becomes Captain America and he earns his way into the hearts and souls of every American, bringing hope and justice to a war-weary nation. Later, during a mission to Germany to stop his archenemy - The Red Skull, from launching rockets at the allies, Captain America sacrifices himself and winds up frozen in ice for almost six decades! Revived, Steve Rogers now must join forces with new heroes and become an Avenger of the modern age. |
Opens nationwide tonight
- two thumbs up
"Captain America" is a 1990 Action Adventure film
directed by Albert Pyun. Starring Matt Salinger,
Scott Paulin, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty and Darren
McGavin. Steve Rogers is injected with the Super
Soldier formula, becoming Captain America as a
last ditch effort to thwart a psychopathic Nazi
agent known as the Red Skull from launching a
Missile at the United States during the height of
World War II. Trapping himself in the Arctic by
deflecting the rocket, Rogers is freed 50 years
later to find that not only is the world a much
different place...but the Red Skull is still alive
and still a menace.
directed by Albert Pyun. Starring Matt Salinger,
Scott Paulin, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty and Darren
McGavin. Steve Rogers is injected with the Super
Soldier formula, becoming Captain America as a
last ditch effort to thwart a psychopathic Nazi
agent known as the Red Skull from launching a
Missile at the United States during the height of
World War II. Trapping himself in the Arctic by
deflecting the rocket, Rogers is freed 50 years
later to find that not only is the world a much
different place...but the Red Skull is still alive
and still a menace.
Original 1990 Captain America trailer
The cast is an amazing ensemble of great
people, so this editor gives two thumbs
on another good family movie.
Cast
(in credits order)MAYO PR - "We don't guarantee media, we just get it!"
