It was just what I expected from Marvel. It was just... great cheesy nonsense.
It was no Thor, but the styling was spot on - very Hellboy. Quite camp, and peppered with just the right amount of cringe.
It was boring in parts where it lost pace, and the first third was made uncomfortable by the incongruously deep voice of the skinny Steve. Very jarring. Speaking of which - there was some awesome CGI (skinny Steve), and some not so awesome CGI (train scene)
Chris Evans' and his almost effeminate good looks is utterly convincing has the good natured hero, and Hugo Weaving is excellent as the camp-as-hell Red Skull. Great for cast spotting this film.
Plus, we are loving how Marvel are intermingling their storylines in anticipation of next year's Avengers spectacle. The intertextuality is so very Postmodern dahling! My boyfriend was convinced there'd be an extra teaser after the credits - he'd missed it on Thor. I won't give it away, but it wasn't worth almost wetting himself at his seat for.
It's a film that doesn't quite believe in itself. It was not so much tongue in cheek; it was more... biting it's lip
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