'America' the beautiful

Almost apologetically breaking into a German POW camp in WWII Austria to save some Allied troops, a brawny rescuer who until recently was as strapping as Vivien Leigh is asked to identify himself. “Um, Captain America,” he says.

You had me at “Um,” Cap’n. Adding goofy uncertainty to shoulders as wide as the East River makes for a disarming hero in one of the spiffiest WWII action yarns ever to march out of Hollywood.

Recombining DNA from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Superman,” “Spider-Man” and even “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Captain America” smashingly layers superhero stuff such as magic serums atop a wry appreciation for campy WWII propaganda and ’60s cinematic rousers that kept Richard Burton, Robert Shaw and Lee Marvin constantly employed.

This is no mere Corporal Canada or Sgt. Spain we’re talking about. Busting out of 1942 Brooklyn to inflict some inspired pulverization on Krautland’s evilest, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is in reality an asthmatic 90-pound bully-ee with a pipe-cleaner build. This guy isn’t puny: He’s puny’s square root. Achieving this effect requires an uncommonly imaginative new usage of CGI to paste Evans’ face on the build of a shrimpy actor. Queasily I began to suspect they were just using footage of me taken surreptitiously the day I arrived in Fort Bragg in 1988. (Or even the day I left Fort Bragg.)

Despite being morsel-sized, Steve is resourceful and brave. In basic training — where he is harangued by a beautiful British drill sergeant/secret agent (the brisk Hayley Atwell, from whom you cannot take your eyes off) — a German scientist (Stanley Tucci) who escaped Hitler, decides it is Steve who should get the secret bulkification serum, spirited out of Germany, that gives a body an instant Barry Bonds treatment. Here geezers may chuckle with recognition, for the expert Hun killer Audie Murphy was a runt too — while John Wayne stayed home.

Instead of merely being an unfortunate orphan like Krypton’s lost boy, Steve morally earns his superpowers in a thrillingly American way. This is meritocracy’s world capital, home of the underdog turned top dog. But if that’s too much to chew on — here’s a Nazi submarine popping up in the Brooklyn docks. And here’s a kindly old antiques-shop proprietress who is also handy with a machine gun.

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'America' the beautiful
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