Steve Rogers was always the Boy Scout of the Marvel Universe: He didn’t drink, he didn’t smoke, he didn’t womanize and he didn’t agonize over the hand fate had given him when he was turned into a Super Soldier by an army experiment. He is a product of the 1940s, when Capt. America was created to defeat the ‘bullies’ of Nazi Germany, and remains so even when he is thawed out after 70 years of frozen slumber in an iceberg. So why is Captain America: The First Avenger one of the best superhero movies in recent memory? It’s because that instead of trying to update the character to appeal to a younger crowd, director Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer) embraces the ‘uncool’ qualities of Captain America’s personality and lets the action of the film (and the humor) show us how great a hero he really is.
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