JULY 22, 2011 ( USA )
In 1942,
Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is deemed physically unfit to enlist in the
U.S. Army and fight the
Nazis in
World War II. Volunteering instead for Project: Rebirth, a secret military operation, he is physically transformed into a super-soldier dubbed Captain America. With sidekick
Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), he fights the
Red Skull (Hugo Weaving),
Hitler's treacherous head of advanced weaponry, whose own plan for world domination involves a seemingly magical object known as the Tesseract.