dvd of the week
I don’t think there’s much argument that Captain America: The First Avenger ended up being the best surprise of the summer movie season, at least as far as action films go. As I wrote in the middle of July, “Captain America is the fourth massively expensive comic book superhero movie to come out in the last three months, and it’s the only one that I wasn’t somewhat disappointed by. While Captain America is not quite in the league of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films, Bryan Singer’s X-Men or Christopher Nolan’s Batman, Joe Johnston has made one of the few comic book movies in the CGI era that uses technology to tell a mythic story better, instead of hoping technological wizbangs will mask a weak story or terrible script.”
