While he is no Batman or Superman, Captain America is lovable in his own right. The same goes for Captain America: The First Avenger in theaters now! Clean-cut with old-fashion senses, the film makes its way easily into your heart with its cartoonish characters and their sentimental scenes.

Chris Evans plays a comically scrawny Steve Rogers, an altruistic Brooklyn native who, after numerous attempts to be enlisted into the American army, finally earns the opportunity to become a genetically enhanced soldier for WWII in 1942 through the

help of Bavarian scientist Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci). Before his transfiguration, Rogers becomes acquainted with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), a tough-skinned British officer who is easily identified as the protagonist’s love interest, and Col. Chester Phillips, a stony but sarcastic colonel whose ridicules and taunts towards Rogers during his army training provides the film with

most of its comic relief.

Let’s not ignore the other party. Captain America’s bone-chilling nemesis Nazi Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) grows excessively obsessive over world domination and after finding an exceptional source of power. The megalomaniac strays from

Hitler and becomes Red Skull, cultivating his own evil military force with vaporizing weapons and setting out to conquer New York City first. However, Captain America, donned in a theatrical costume, is so self-sacrificing and valiant, it is hard to be afraid of the Red Skull.

With his iconic shield, Steve Rogers ultimately becomes immortalized as the earnest Captain America, a national hero, as he battles opponents and critical movie viewers, winning them over with his quick-wit and patriotism. With tidbits of classic lust

and tragic, “Captain America” serves well as an entertaining action-packed summer flick to share with friends. Overall, I’ll give this movie a B++.