doubleofive said:

Captain America

[...]but the point was gotten across that Cap was everyone's friend and just a nice guy.

SNORE!

I'm not sure what everyone's problem is, I freaking loved this movie. I'm putting it up there with Iron Man in the Marvel Universe pantheon. Something about having a hero that was actually heroic, a villain who did villainous things, and actors who took it seriously made it pretty awesome.

Boooo! You say that seeing this "nice guy" boyscout superhero is a breath of fresh air from the recent brooding hero's we've seen, but that's exactly what Iron Man was, only Favreau and Downy Jr. did it well. I'm sorry, but this movie was boring as shit.

And hell, maybe it isn't fully the movies fault. I've got nothing against Joe Johnston, and Chris Evans proved in Sunshine that he's not completely useless. But I'm sure there's a reason they never made a Cap movie before now (that wasn't straight to video) - he's just not a very interesting character. There isn't any real dynamic, nothing's at stake. We know right from the beginning of the film that he's going to win, kill Red Skull (who looked stupid IMHO), and somehow get frozen for 70 years!!

Of course, there's also the fact that this movie was forced out and most likely rushed to theaters before the Avengers movie comes out next spring. Again, not the movies fault, but it's kind of obvious. It was the same case for Thor a couple months ago - the movies just don't have any reason to be there, they're completely unnecessary additions to the Marvel Universe pantheon. But at least Thor was amazing to look at, and had some intriguing storylines. The First Avenger was just, plain boring.

As one reviewer from the Village Voice puts it, the movie is a "hokey, hacky, two-hour-plus exercise in franchise transition/price gouging, complete with utterly unnecessary post-converted 3-D"