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Captain America
MGM Limited Edition Collection // Unrated // August 23, 2011
List Price: $19.99 [Buy now and save at Oldies]
The Movie:
If you're like me, you see the need for more movies where the President of the
In 1943 the
A couple of weeks later, before
In any case the Captain gets strapped to a rocket and shot off to
Cut to 1990. Apparently even with the evil workings of Red Skull the Allies win WWII (which makes the whole Captain
Actually he starts walking to LA. He gets as far as
Red Skull... during WWII | ... and after plastic surgery. |
Meanwhile the Red Skull is still in business. He's had plastic surgery (but he still looks horrifically mutilated) and is the head of an international criminal network. When a disgruntled US Army General comes to him with a plan to kill the President of the US , Red Skull has a better idea! It's too expensive and time consuming to kill a president, but apparently it's easy to kidnap one. So he sets in motion a plan to snatch the President and implant him with a computer chip that will allow Red Skull to control his every thought!
So it's up to Captain
As I said in the intro, this movie is so bad it is fun to watch. In this film Captain
That's a good place to keep a piano. |
The acting is pretty bad across the board. Salinger is extremely wooden in his delivery and brings nothing to the roll. It's amazing how little screen chemistry he has. Ronny Cox plays the President with way too much vim and vigor. He tries to make him more of a secret agent than the leader of the free world.
The DVD:
Made in 1990 in the wake of the Batman (1989) craze, Captain America was a low-budget film that was intended for theatrical release. It didn't get one in the
Audio:
The stereo soundtrack wasn't bad, just disappointing. There wasn't much in the way of separation and I was expecting a more dynamic mix from a film from 1990. On the plus side there wasn't any background noise and the dialog was easy to hear.
Video:
The full frame image (see note above) was much less than I was expecting. I've seen Warner Archive films from the 30's and 40's that look better. The image was very soft and so dark in places that you couldn't see what was going on. (Take the fight sequence below. There are two people in the image, believe it or not.) There was a fair amount of dirt on the print too. It wasn't a horrible print, but don't go in expecting much.
Extras:
There is also a trailer for the movie.
Final Thoughts:
From Captain America's shield coming back to him as if by magic... expect when the plot requires it to just fall to the ground to Captain America's lack of pugilistic skill, this movie is filled with odd moments that will cause fits of laughter in bad film aficionados. For those people, and those people only, this disc is recommended.
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