Upon showing my father the trailer for Captain America on my brother’s iPad he made a face. The idea of a man having the force to make a shield do what Cap does isn’t scientifically possible and Dad’s not having it.

“Do you know how heavy that thing would weigh, if it can take that much damage and still be in one piece?” He asked.

So we explained the concept of Vibranium to him. And he thought about it.

“If it absorbs all impacts, how can it bounce off a wall at all? Wouldn’t it absorb the impact of hitting the wall and fall to the ground like a rock?”

When I told Dad that I would let me readership know that he says Captain America was impossible his response was “I didn’t say it. Physics says it.”

Despite my dad’s misgivings, I went to see Cap last night and I loved it. I loved everything about it. And I’m excited about the Avengers now because I get to see more Captain America. Everything about that movie was handled right and I can tell you spoiler free that it’s hard NOT to have fun watching that movie.

It doesn’t hurt that it was directed by the same guy who directed The Rocketeer, another fave of mine. So there’s that.

***SLIGHT SPOILER TEXT – READ ONLY IF YOU’VE SEEN THE MOVIE****

One line the movie that floored me was when Abraham Erskine said to a skinny Steve Rogers “People forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.” I am of mixed heritage. German-Italian. Mom’s side is Italian, and my dad’s is German. Dad’s an immigrant who came over on the U.S.S. United States in 1957. If you ask him he tells you he’s an American. When he visits Germany he tells them that he’s a visiting American in fluent German. He’s very proud of his German heritage and culture but has not always felt it was okay to be so.

When we watch WW2 movies (which we both love) and he always says “There were good Germans too. They never say that. Germans sufferd at the hands of the Nazis too.” And I always have felt bad about that for him. Because he’s as American as they get. But he loves all things German too.

So here we have this comic book movie STEEPED in a rich history of punching nazis and sticking it to the Germans. I can’t tell you how much it meant to me that the screenwriters took the time to make Abraham Erskine say those words. And to ask Steve point blank “So you want to kill Nazis?” as a test. It was just the most amazing part of the film for me.

I know that when my dad gets a chance to see the film, he’ll appreciate it too.