Captain America II: Death Too Soon

TV Movie
1979
TV-PG
1h 23m

IMDb RATING

3.7/10

1.8K

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Reb Brown in Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)

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The star spangled hero must battle a villain's plan to poison America with a chemical that horrifically accelerates the aging process.The star spangled hero must battle a villain's plan to poison America with a chemical that horrifically accelerates the aging process.The star spangled hero must battle a villain's plan to poison America with a chemical that horrifically accelerates the aging process.

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IMDb RATING

3.7/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
According to Reb Brown, when they were filming this movie in Los Angeles, California. He walked out of the trailer in full Captain America outfit. Some drunk sitting on the wall looks at him in the costume with a shield, falls down off the wall, and says as he looks at his bottle of booze, "I really gotta to stop drinking this stuff." Looks back at Brown in the costume, blinks his eyes a couple of times. Knowing that Brown is really there in costume then says, "Well, maybe not."

Goofs
Reb Brown and his stunt double have noticeably different physiques; the double's chest is much more defined.

Quotes
Miguel: Who in the world would think of looking for the famous terrorist Miguel inside an American penitentiary?

Alternate versions
There are two different opening sequences: One begins with a recap of _Captain America_ (1979) and uses the comics-book-cover logo (seen on the video box art) as the title without the "II" or subtitle. The other omits the recap and uses a more generic font for the title, spelling "Captain America II" on three lines in red, white and blue (one color for each line).

Connections
Featured in The Spoony Experiment: Captain America Review: Part 2 (2010)

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Captain America II (1979)

* 1/2 (out of 4)

This sequel has Captain America/Steve Rogers (Reb Brown) going up against a bunch of thugs who pick on old women as well as a mad man (Christopher Lee) who has created a way to speed up the aging process and he plans to use this to wipe out cities unless he is paid. It's funny but the first film is considered one of the worst superhero movies ever made but I liked it's campy and silly charm. This sequel is considered by many to be the better of the two films but I actually thought there were a few too many problems to fully enjoy it. I think the biggest problem is the screenplay, which offers us up a rather neat idea but never really ever gets done with it. We keep hearing about this deadly chemical yet we never get to see it in full action and by doing this the viewer gets to know that it's not going to happen so there's never any real drama or tension that something bad is going to happen. Another problem is the dialogue, which once again is pretty laughable at times and what makes it worse here is that much of it takes itself so serious that you can't help but roll her eyes. Even though this film is shorter than the first I found it rather hard going at times because some of the pacing was just way too slow and there are many sequences that really go no where and contain very little entertainment. There are a few good things here and one is the performance of Lee. No matter what you think of the man, and I think little of him, he at least gives it his all even when appearing in something such as this. I thought he delivered another fine performance and really sold himself in the part. Brown doesn't turn in a "good" performance but I thought he was quite a bit better here than in the first movie. I also enjoyed most of the action scenes and the added bang given to Captain America when he exits his van was a plus as was the final fight between he and Lee. With that said, CAPTAIN America II still has way too many weak spots to be a complete success. It's worth noting that both Brown and Lee would appear in HOWLING II: YOUR SISTER'S A WEREWOLF.