Captain America [VHS]

Captain America [VHS]

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Cap appears an hour into the film!

Reviewed by B-MAN, 2003-09-01

Thats right. This lame late 70s TV movie has about an hour of boredom and then the guy finally puts on the Captain America costume and fights. Up until that point the film is tedious beyond explanation. Directed by Ron Holcomb who did shows like A-Team, Battlestar Galactica, Fantasy Island, and Quincy. Cap is like a boring Quincy episode until the action starts an hour later, then its like A Team. This is extremely small budget and corny, but not in a good way. Captain America does have a cool motorcycle and a van, but most people did in the 70s. 6'3" Reb Brown fits the role physically, but he can't act and is more like a football player than Captain America. Look out for Steve Forrest from the 70s show SWAT. There is actually a sequel called "Death too soon" which pulled out the acting talents of Connie Selleca (TVs HOTEL! Woopee!) and horror legend Christopher Lee who is awesome, but no stranger to camp/cheese. I can't speak for the sequel because after this first one, I didn't bother. This one is 2 hours long with maybe 20 minutes of Captain America in costume. What? Still, in comparison to the other film version of Captain America from 1991...what a disaster, the 70s version isn't so bad. Still this '79 movie is mostly boring and slow until Captain America appears and even then its like "thats it?".

Captain America

Reviewed by Anonymous, 2003-03-21

Well this made for tv movie is better than the 90's Captain America movie that was never released featuring Matt Slinger. This one at least shows the hero in costume for more than 10mins
like the 90's version did. Cap to gets a cool montor bike to ride around. The acting is decent as well. This tv movie is up there with such other tv series movies as Spiderman 70's live action series, Incredible Hulk live action series, Dr. Strange tv movie, Generation X tv movie and Nick Fury Agent of Shield tv movie. If your a fan of Captain America or of superheros check this tv movie out.

Captain America....

Reviewed by blackaciddevil, 2003-02-24

This video is based on the TV series of Captain america that originally aired on CBS(if I remember correctly) which stars Reb Brown as the Captain. Although, it has very little to do with the comic book(the 1989 movie had alot more to do with it,really)- it is still an entertaining movie worth getting and checking out. Just for a walk down memory lane. It's pretty awesome to watch. I highly recommend it to all.

An okay film

Reviewed by Anonymous, 2001-08-22

This was a funny, comic book like film. Reminded me of Batman tv series, lead actor, good, I've seen him in other films and maybe a series or two on tv. He fit the role i.e. athletic build, looked good in tights, etc. All in all not bad especially if you like tongue in cheek type films.

Captain America the Movie ( late 70s)

Reviewed by Anonymous, 2000-07-23

I think that this is good film despite the fact that it totaly different from the comic i do however like ALL marvel comic movies....i'm too young to have oringaly seen them on TV but i enjoy as a hobby collecting all live action comic movies...i have all the batmans all supermans both flash movies all the incredable hulk movies all the spiderman movies including the live action series i just ordered captain america and captain america 2:death too soon and dr strange. i do however like the 92 captain america better which ihave as well but i think that all the comic movies are fair or better i even taped Generation X and Nick Fury: agent of S.H.I.E.L.D so i would say that despite this is cheesy......it is STILL fun movie and great to watch if you want to just relax and watch an old comic movie