Captain America

Hey there folks, welcome to another episode (or post) of Le Cinema Petit. Or if you don't speak French, The Little Petit. Man it has been awhile! I got Hamilton back on board for a second there, and then fell off myself. But I'm back. So lets go ahead and start with the trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger.

You know the drill by now, so let's take a look at the trailer.

Right on. America won the war. Suck it allied effort. But back to the trailer. After the usual green screen of boredom the trailer opens with a phenomenal shot that took me by surprise.

Not a poster.

I came into this trailer completely ready for a- let's just say it- Green Lantern-esque trailer. That trailer was bad yo! This shot alone changed that. When I first saw the "Big Game" spot (You think with how much they shell out for a thirty second spot the could say *removed due to copyright issue*) I didn't much care for the visual style I saw. Its a WWII movie why not take the chance to make this a gritty looking film, much like Batman films take the crime aspect and go with a darker look. This shot told me exactly what the film is going for. It looks so much like an enlist poster form the 40s, the silhouettes with the primary lighting on the recruitment office, and enough american flags to democratize China. This is a high-gloss comic book romanticization as the war would have been portrayed at the time, though comics or newsreels if they were in color. To stop myself from going more into media presentations of war I'll just show this-

Chris Evans did some serious digital weight-loss

A physician barks out the Name "Steve Rogers" and we fade in on Chris Evans looking like a sixteen year-old girl from an anorexia ad. (Note: anorexia is a serious condition, and if you laughed at that last line you're going to hell.) Chris-E (Captain America, AKA Steve Rogers) wants him to "just give me a chance." But the physician (as we all do) knows that war is no place for the scrawny nerds. REJECTED

We get the Paramount (Soon to be replaced by disney on many comic book films *sniffle*) and Marvel logos. Tommy Lee Jones begins to bark a Patton quote at us. By Patton I mean General George S. Patton Jr. Who was the first officer of the WWI US Tank Corp, and the Commanding officer of the Third US Army during WWII. Geez brush up on your history people. Jones' monologue is intercut with Chris-E getting his face beat in and being told he's worthless. Boy are they gonna be wrong.

It's like the universe is even trying to tell him he's too short

Chris-E has made it into a test group to create a super soldier. We know this because T-Lee-Jones has said the words "Super Soldier" pretty much directly into the camera. *Wink Wink* *Nudge Nudge*.

He's trying so hard not to.

And following those two words we get unexplained guns firing and explosions. Now this is what I'm talking about. But we're back to the story telling part of the trailer, Chris-E is getting prepped to be injected with the super soldier serum (Thats is what it is called in the comics, I can only hope they kept the name.) and he wants to know why. A scientist tells us a sort of inverse of the quotable line Uncle Ben tells Peter in Spiderman. (If you don't know off the top of your head just go watch the movie) Then Chris-E is in some sort of metal sarcophagus and T-Lee Jones is gruffing out that "We are going to win this war because we are better than everyone else have the best men" (Note: possible slogan for the gay pride parade; We have the best men.) The scientist tells Mr. Stark (It all connects! Whooo-aaahhh!) to throw the switch.

Paramount: "Hey did you know we're doing an Avengers Movie? No well its gonna be pretty awesome. I mean we're just gonna like have all our super heros form all our movies team up like in the comic books... Ah, have you seen the Thor trailer, or maybe the easter egg scenes form any of our other super hero movies? Yeah we've kind of been subtly hinting at the Avengers movie. Oh you have heard of it. Did you know its going to have all the characters from our super hero movies in it?

Us: We F*#&!%@ get it Paramount!

We see vials drain, lights toggle, sparks fly, steam issues out of tubes, and we get the most badass line of the trailer "And we will personally escort Adolph Hitler to the Gates of Hell." Flash a title card and key heavy music. And Chris-E steps out with pecs like you would see in Dragon Ball Z.

Ladies love Pecs. T-shirt Idea. I said it first. Don't you steal it. Don't you... Damn!

The trailer begins to build intrigue with spies and futuristic submarines, lines of soldiers in dark outfits that never saw the light of day in WWII (because even the nazi party said "Ja I tink de ist too much leather."), T-Lee Jones telling us the enemy is not what we expect, and then reveling Agent Smith from the Matrix!!

Mr. Anderson

And then, oh God!

By the power of Grey Skull!

What was up with that editing. So many black frames! I almost seizured (Note: Epilepsy is a serious condition, for further instruction view note above on Anorexia). And speaking of editing its everyones favorite part of the Trailer, ACTION SHOTS! We get explosions, motorcycle chases, slow motion, and Cap's signature Shield toss.

Okay, I'm gonna say it, I'm pretty excited for this one. Understanding now the visual style, and seeing the Indiana Jones inspired Motorcycle chase, and good old fashioned gun violence. It promises to be a fun comic book inspired summer blockbuster. Will it be better than Iron Man? Of course not, but lets not get crazy here.

As for the trailer it did its job, I have gone from previously dreading this movie because I knew I was going to make myself see it, to being pretty excited about seeing it. I have no real critical breakdown for this one (if I do for any trailer review) but I just know this trailer made me ready to see the film. To quote the last line of the Trailer "I think it Works."

4 Heavy Leathered Nazis out of 5

-Andrew Carey