Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is a skinny kid with a big heart. In fact, in one scene in the film when he is seen without a shirt someone says, “Somebody should get that kid a sandwich!” However, after he is infused in the muscles and cells with a special serum, his body becomes that of a body builder and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), who already liked him, takes to him even more. Steve is the kind of young man who wants to fight for his country during World War ll and he gets every opportunity to do that when he becomes Captain America. At first he simply puts on a cloth costume and appears in film shorts about the war, sells war bonds and makes appearances to audiences and groups of soldiers along with dancing girls. Then he decides he must become the real thing and he does so with no passion held back.

This is an energetic, well-scripted and action-packed movie and it is very well directed. The acting is superb. Of course the likes of Tommy Lee Jones and Hugo Weaving and Stanley Tucci are involved. In fact, Tommy Lee Jones plays a colonel who gets to deliver some of the film’s best comedic lines and Hugo Weaving makes a terrific villain, Red Skull. The movie features underwater action, aircraft scenes in the skies, ray guns, bombs exploding, and about every perilous situation imaginable.

Unfortunately for our Dove families, the movie contains a lot of violence, almost non-stop, and the violence level hits a three, missing our mark of acceptability and therefore we are unable to award our Dove “Family-Approved” Seal to the film.