Captain America: The First Avenger gets a longer trailer

The captain can’t fight ET cheese.

So finally, after months of waiting; after surviving on a starvation diet of 30 seconds of quick cut, Super Bowl, trailer sugar cubes we finally get to see a much longer, 1 min trailer! Take “see” literally, because, at time of writing (the very small hours of Wednesday the 23^rd of March) all we have available is the trailer featuring a mildly annoying voice over from the self proclaimed “best” ET (Entertainment Tonight). I’m not sure what they think they’re the best at, given that they trailed their Captain America exclusive as a first look at “The Next big super hero blockbuster”. An odd comment given that Fellow Marvel Studios’ film Thor opens nearly 12 weeks before this film and that film will be followed by both Warner Brothers’ Green Lantern and Fox’s X-Men First Class. So they're not “the best” at film knowledge or research then.

Courtesy of EW.com

As for the trailer itself, which you can see at the end here, it’s pretty good. We get to see even more, Benjamin Button like, Chris Evans before transformation into Captain Pecs America. Hints that Evan’s elite squad won’t be just kicking standard Nazi butt; The Red Skull reveal is still a little blink and you’ll miss him (hence my adding the rather impressive still photo of Hugo Weaving’ Nazi nasty, and Hydra ..Er... hyena, hater) but plenty of HYDRA goons and tech is on display, including the very handy personal submarine, futuristic guns and those pesky goons with the mental double flame throwers.

Origins

The film makes an odd change in that here Steve Rogers tries to enlist after America (finally) joins WWII following Pearl Harbour. One of my favourite things about This character, and his creators / publishers, was that he tried to join the army before the American’s entered WWII and that he was created, published and even shown punching Hitler on the nose BEFORE, the Americans entered the war, in one of several attempts to persuade the people in charge that sitting around waiting to see how the whole “rest of the world war” thing turned out, might not be the best policy.



 But the good news is that it takes place between his origin and an event near the end of WWII that enables him to join Iron Man, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow, War Machine and the rest of Nick Fury’s “Superhero boy band” The Avengers in the present. It seems silly treating something that’s been in the public domain for around 50 years as a spoiler, but most people only know these characters through their movies, so I won’t ruin the end of Captain America for you. So the benefit of having the movie cover a 3 or 4 year time period is that as well as having a Captain America in the present you have years worth of WWII set stories to tell as well. Either by having future films set in 2 time periods, the present with jumps to the past, Godfather Pt II style, or set entirely in WWII. It is yet another thing that distinguishes Captain America: The First Avenger  from other super hero movies and gives the lie to the oft spouted rubbish that somehow 5 or 7 super hero movies, out of over 130 movies, a year is  too much.

But of course the most important thing for nerd, geeks and fan-boys / girls across the world are those 2 brief glimpses where “Captain America throws his mighty shield...”... It actually looks pretty impressive, way more so than such a thing has any right to do in live action; oh and he catches it pretty well too. I’ve also embedded the 6 seconds of young Steve Rogers standing up to a bully, before being rescued by his future sidekick Bucky. (Hey it’s the 40s)

Here ya go..........

........ Bully time...

TheRealEverton