As a genre, the superhero movie has gone from strength to strength over the past few years, and even though we’ve got to wait until next year to see both The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, 2011 gave us a handful of fan-pleasing, blockbuster, superhero films, that were as big on fun and heart as they were on spectacle, and you can find our top three superhero movies of 2011 below (all of which can be purchased directly from amazon.co.uk by clicking their respective titles)…
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X-Men: First Class
Format: Blu-ray (Triple play), DVD Classification: 12
Stars: James McAvoy (Wanted), Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds), Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids), January Jones (Unknown)
Set years before the events of the X-Men trilogy, First Class shows how Professor X and Magneto, before they were enemies, became friends, and presents an alternate history to the Cold War; as the mutants’ personal struggles find them entangled with the Cuban Misslie Crisis, and a possible World War III.
Thor
Format: 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray (Triple play), DVD Classification: 12
Stars: Chris Hemsworth (A Perfect Getaway), Samuel L. Jackson (Iron Man), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
Not just a Marvel superhero, but the God of Thunder, Thor finds himself banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, and must not only try to blend in with our customs, but fight to reclaim his lost powers, and fend of the invasion force of other-worldy beings sent to destroy him, if he is to save the Earth, and his father’s crown.
Captain America: The First Avenger
Format: 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray (Triple play), DVD
Classification: 12
Stars: Chris Evans (Scott Pilgrim), Hugo Weaving (The Matrix), Samuel L. Jackson (Thor), Tommy Lee Jones (Men In Black)
A weak man with a desire to fight is turned into the ultimate soldier and set loose on Hitler’s most dangerous forces in Captain America: The First Avenger.
