So are you like me and you never saw the first Captain America and your boyfriend/friends/significant other/mom REALLY wants to see Captain America The Winter Soldier this weekend? How much do I really need to know, you keep asking, well have no fear because I asked the same question and I’m here to help.
Sure, I saw all the other Marvel movies but somehow Chris Evans in a patriotic super hero costume slipped through my nerd cracks and I’m under a time crunch. Captain America The Winter Soldier comes out on Friday and the tickets have been purchased and the popcorn is already popping in my head (I LOOOOVE popcorn) so I gotta get a move on.
Captain America
Chris Evans is Captain America aka Steve Rogers but not before he was a teeny tiny, dorky, skinny-ass, future Fox News correspondent. When I say the Cap is into America, I mean he is into ‘MURICA! He is apple pie eating. car flag waving, bald eagle saving, firework shooting, founding father loving, Obamacare signing up AMERICAN!
Steve begins as a tiny, pipsqueak (I’m my mom now) of a kid who wants nothing more than to be in the army with his friend Bucky and save the world from the Nazi’s in World War II buuuutttt unfortch as the Cap’s luck would have it, Uncle Sam doesn’t want him cause he’s so fun sized. BUUUTTTT Caesar Flickerman aka Dr. Abraham Erksine aka Stanley Tucci decides to take a chance on the baby sized Steve and use him for army medical testing to make a super human aka CAPTAIN AMERICA!
The Before and After
BAM! And THAT ladies is why we’re watching this. HOT DAYUM.
The Nazi’s
What good film doesn’t have a little Nazi butt kicking?! Think The Indiana Jones movies, The Rocketeer and others and you get what they’re aiming for here. Of course the Nazi’s are out to take over the world but this time one of the Nazi leaders is the real baddie who happens to get ahold of the tesseract of Thor fame to create a super weapon slash super villain aka Red Skull aka the creepiest thing ever for their secret organization Hydra. Hugo Weaving rips his own face off to reveal RED SKULL and forever ruin your dreams. So of course ol Captain America has gotta go save the world from that.
The Cap Needs To Let His Hair Down
The thing here is that Cap isn’t like some of the other Marvel characters like Tony Stark/Ironman who knows when to have fun and when it’s time to kick ass, for Steve it’s ALL work all the time and well you know the saying there. Not that Stevie is a dull boy but maybe let’s say he’s a bit too earnest and we’re not terribly surprised that there’s more heat between Peggy the girl interest/Army secret agent and Howard Stark (Tony’s dad) aka Dominic Cooper aka someone who knows how to have a good time. ANYWAY, I guess someone’s always gotta be on duty, right? Why not the Cap?
The Winter Soldier
So what’s the gist here? The Captain is now stuck in modern day times and has to figure out where and how he fits in along with somehow working with Scarlett Johansson aka Black Widow to take down the latest baddie aka The Winter Soldier aka Bucky his friend. HIT IT! BUH BU BUUUUUUUUHHHH!
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is out TODAY! Go forth and see it and feel like you’re not missing TOO much. Or better get just rent it on Amazon for 2.99 and know exactly what’s going on.
