How does Steve Rogers stack up against the recent glut of super hero movies? According to this critic, he mows them down like so many Nazis.
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In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Chris Evans is shown in a scene from the film "Captain America: The First Avenger." (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures) By Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel--There is so much "business" that the fourth big comic book movie adaptation of the summer has to take care of that frankly, it's astounding that director Joe "Jumanji" Johnston is able to take care of it all, and with style. "Captain America" has to connect this World War II-era hero to modern times. The movie has to tie into all the other Marvel comic book movies that are part of "The Avengers," because as the title implies, the good captain is "The First Avenger." It has to deliver the origin myth how Captain America was born out of a "super soldier" experiment during WWII. The film has to back-engineer its way into the meeting between the Captain (Chris Evans) and the Avenger leader we know as Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), and give us a credible version of future Iron Man Tony Stark's inventor dad, Howard Stark. And it has to be fun. It is. The fourth comic book movie of the summer is the best comic book movie of the summer. Johnston has delivered a light, clever and deftly balanced adventure picture with real lump-in-the-throat nostalgia, with Nazis--who make the best villains--and with loving references to "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
