I'd say that Captain America: The First Avenger is my favorite bad movie of all time. Pacific Rim comes close but The First Avenger takes the prize.
Steve Rogers (Chris Hemsworth) is a ninety pound asthmatic from Brooklyn who wants to go fight in the war. Prohibited by his physical condition, he is offered "a chance. And only a chance" by Army researcher Dr. Erskine (a great performance by Stanley Tucci). He passes training and becomes... Captain America!
He has super strength and everything, which he uses to fight Nazis, specifically their research team known as Hydra.
It features a witty screenplay by Christopher Marcus and Stephen McFeely, and has a few good laughs. The problem lies, in my opinion, in director Joe Johnson. His style of shooting is unoriginal and in my opinion, somewhat boring. He is also responsible for the legendarily bad ending, deciding to differ from the script and create an ending made little to no sense. Captain America is that comic book movie that we've seen a million times before. I really wish Joss Whedon had directed this. He was probably busy with one of his other projects, but I think that he could of done a much better job and made it a better film.
It does have good sides, however. The action sequences are cool even if they are a bit of the "he could never survive that" variety. It's fun to watch, despite the plot holes and the lack of anything new.
I do love comic book movies, and I'm probably to only reviewer out there who doesn't think that The Avengers was overrated. I suppose that's part of the reason that even though I hate everything that this movie is and the style of comic book movies that it represents, full of special effects and a pet peeve of mine (masks that look like faces that hide your true identity), I still enjoy watching it. I've seen it three times. And there are other movies that are a lot better that I've seen only once.
Overall: 2 out of 4 stars. If you enjoy comic book movies or all out action movies you'll enjoy this. It's a good time, just not a good movie.
Reference scale:
Iron man 2 < Captain America: The First Avenger < Thor
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