”CAPTAIN AMERICA: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE WITH ONLY HIS WITS, SUPER-STRENGTH, PLEXIGLASS SHIELD, AND A HANG-GLIDING MOTORCYCLE.
After undergoing the formality of being injected with his father’s F.L.A.G. serum and gaining powers in the previous film, CAPTAIN AMERICA returns in this second TV movie to fight the villainous Christopher Lee in his plot to rapidly age an entire city. The new movie improves quite a bit upon the original, with more costume-time, more action, and a nice ‘70s plot that would not be out of place in an episode of Knight Rider or The A-Team.

Reb Brown is still laughably charming as the oafish Cap with a sensitive side. He’s a painter, you see. And he has a cat. At one point, he even does a painting of his cat. When a terrorist known only as MIGUEL surfaces, Captain America goes undercover in a small town to investigate. There, he is jostled by the local ruffians, and wooed by a sassy young widow who cannot help but be seduced by the one-two punch of Cap’s rugged brawn and his cat-painting sensitivity.

It’s always fun when Cap detaches his plastic windshield from his bike. ‘Cause this windshield is also a real shield (GET IT??) Only thing is, instead of slinging it and having it boomerang back into some villain’s head, it hovers hesitantly in flight, like you nerds do around girls. Another thing that magically hovers is the motorcycle itself. At one point (actually, it’s a ten-minute sequence), it even sprouts a hang-glider and flies.

Despite this hilarity, the film’s plotline, centering around Miguel’s attempts to prematurely age an unsuspecting populace, ring unnervingly true in today’s uncertain climate of global terror. When Cap fights three dogs in a prison, I can’t imagine that anyone would be able miss the eerie resonance with the dogs used to terrorize prisoners in Abu Ghiraib. Long after finishing the film, every American will feel the poignant chill of the threat of biochemical warfare in this film which truly makes us contemplate what it would be like to face a DEATH TOO SOON.

• Running Time: 90min
• Format: DVD-R
• Language: English
• Subtitles: None
• Video System: NTSC
• Region: 0 (No Region Protection)
• Audio quality: 7/10
• Picture quality: 7/10