An Original Avenger Still Holds The Worst Marvel Movie Record On Rotten Tomatoes 34 Year Later
Summary
Still, these are far from the worst Marvel movies overall. While Marvel Studios, Fox, and Sony are largely responsible for the modern-day output of Marvel movies with the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises, and the MCU timeline, the three studios didn’t always have such a stranglehold over the superhero genre. This, it turns out, was not such a good thing for Marvel's reputation, as the studio suffered with installments like 1990's Captain America.
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The 1990s were largely dominated by DC’s Batman movies, which would break box office records despite being critically middling. Unfortunately for Marvel, its handful of releases were not so popular, with Captain America and Generation X being two straight-to-video examples of Marvel’s pre-MCU teething problems. 1994’s The Fantastic Four, meanwhile, was never officially released and was ostensibly created so that Executive Producer Bernd Eichinger could keep the movie rights for Marvel's First Family.
Yet none of these releases were quite so poorly rated asCaptain America, which sits at a paltry 12% on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie tells a familiar story, with Steve Rogers’ genesis as Captain America following a similar structure to 2011's Captain America. Creative liberties were taken with Red Skull, whose visage is decidedly less skull-like and who joins up with a crime family. While the movie earned a so-bad-it's-good cult following, the consensus is that Captain America was a prime example of how a superhero movie shouldn't be done.
Why Captain America 1990 Is So Bad![]()
The ill-fated early attempt at a Captain America movie was lambasted for multiple sins, which were summed up by eFilmcritic.com's Scott Weinberg's quote:
Meanwhile, audiences - whose consensus score came out at a less brutal 19% - largely detail being appalled at the comic book inaccuracies, including the fact that Captain America steals a car in the movie. Yet similarly to Madame Web, which currently has the same critics' consensus score of 12% on Rotten Tomatoes (but a much higher audience consensus score of 59%), there is a significant portion of the audience that appreciates its poor quality for the unintentional hilarity. Regardless, ticking Captain America off of the watchlist makes appreciating the MCU's rendition of the character a lot easier.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
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- Captain America (1990) is the lowest-rated Marvel movie on Rotten Tomatoes, with a critic score of 12%, and many critics citing it as a prime example of a bad superhero film.
- Audiences were appalled by comic inaccuracies, cheesy script, and low budget, leading to an audience score of only 19% for the movie.
- Despite a cult following for being so bad it's good, seeing the early Captain America installment makes appreciating the MCU version easier.
Still, these are far from the worst Marvel movies overall. While Marvel Studios, Fox, and Sony are largely responsible for the modern-day output of Marvel movies with the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises, and the MCU timeline, the three studios didn’t always have such a stranglehold over the superhero genre. This, it turns out, was not such a good thing for Marvel's reputation, as the studio suffered with installments like 1990's Captain America.
Related Every Upcoming Marvel Movie: Full MCU Phase 5 & 6 List (& Beyond) Between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment, here is every upcoming Marvel movie release date and what we know about the projects so far. Captain America's 1990 Movie Is Still The Lowest Rated Marvel Movie 
The 1990s were largely dominated by DC’s Batman movies, which would break box office records despite being critically middling. Unfortunately for Marvel, its handful of releases were not so popular, with Captain America and Generation X being two straight-to-video examples of Marvel’s pre-MCU teething problems. 1994’s The Fantastic Four, meanwhile, was never officially released and was ostensibly created so that Executive Producer Bernd Eichinger could keep the movie rights for Marvel's First Family.Yet none of these releases were quite so poorly rated asCaptain America, which sits at a paltry 12% on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie tells a familiar story, with Steve Rogers’ genesis as Captain America following a similar structure to 2011's Captain America. Creative liberties were taken with Red Skull, whose visage is decidedly less skull-like and who joins up with a crime family. While the movie earned a so-bad-it's-good cult following, the consensus is that Captain America was a prime example of how a superhero movie shouldn't be done.
Why Captain America 1990 Is So Bad
The ill-fated early attempt at a Captain America movie was lambasted for multiple sins, which were summed up by eFilmcritic.com's Scott Weinberg's quote:"This is what superhero flicks looked like before someone got a clue."Several critics took aim at leading star Matt Salinger's performance, which was not helped by the subpar script, which was criticized for being overly cheesy and stiff. A low budget also didn't help the final product, which Rob Gonsalves of Rob's Movie Vault called:
"One of the dumbest movies of all time."Director Albert Pyun also did not come out unscathed, with Variety's Lawrence Cohn describing his direction as "leaden."
Meanwhile, audiences - whose consensus score came out at a less brutal 19% - largely detail being appalled at the comic book inaccuracies, including the fact that Captain America steals a car in the movie. Yet similarly to Madame Web, which currently has the same critics' consensus score of 12% on Rotten Tomatoes (but a much higher audience consensus score of 59%), there is a significant portion of the audience that appreciates its poor quality for the unintentional hilarity. Regardless, ticking Captain America off of the watchlist makes appreciating the MCU's rendition of the character a lot easier.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
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