Captain America: The First Avenger

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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Marvel's Agent Carter (TV Series)

Original title: Captain America: The First Avenger
Year: 2011
Running time: 125 min.
Country: United States
Director: Joe Johnston
Screenwriter: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely (Comic: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby)
Music: Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Shelly Johnson
Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones, Sebastian Stan, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Dominic Cooper, Neal McDonough, Richard Armitage, David Bradley, Kenneth Choi, Natalie Dormer, Derek Luke, Jenna-Louise Coleman, JJ Feild, Bruno Ricci, Laura Haddock, Samuel L. Jackson
Producer: Paramount Pictures / Marvel Entertainment / Marvel Studios
Genre: Action. Fantasy | Superheroes. Based on a Comic. Marvel Comics. II World War. 3D. Nazism. Steampunk
Movie Groups: Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) | Capitan America
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Official Site: http://captainamerica.marvel.com/
Synopsis / Plot: The introduction and origin of Steve Rogers, a soldier given a serum that turns him into the super-soldier Captain America! After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull (Hugo Weaving).

Critics' reviews

"A real movie, not a noisy assembly of incomprehensible special effects (...) If Marvel is wise, it will take this and "Iron Man" as its templates (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
Captain America: The First Avenger is stolidly corny, old-fashioned pulp fun (...) The picture is nothing, really, that you haven't seen before, but it's the definition of a square, competent, deliver-the-goods blockbuster"

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"It is enjoyably preposterous, occasionally touching and generally likable (...) Captain America” is a reminder, at once successful and self-defeating, of the kind of fun that comics used to be"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"The most stylish comics-derived entertainment of the year (...) It's paced and designed for people who won't shrivel up and die if two or three characters take 45 seconds between combat sequences to have a conversation"

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"Red, white and bland"

Peter Debruge: Variety

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40 My Top 10 Movies from 2011 (106)

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