Captain Catholic: The Movie

I have posted about Captain Catholic before. Those were about the short sketches that Tony DeGennaro uploaded to the internet. He made a movie a while back. I haven't sat down to watch the whole thing yet, but it looks like its just under an hour. From the preview it seems to have combined all the villains from Episodes I-III.
In the meanwhile since the release of his movie, Tony has also released Episode IV. Episode IV is on the Catholic position about immigration, illegal or otherwise. I plan on reviewing the movie and Episode IV later on, but for now that will have to wait until I have time.

Here are the links to the Episodes:
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I
II
III
IV

Captain Catholic, Episode 3

After a short hiatus Captain Catholic has returned for another episode. This time the subject is Catholic teaching on sweatshops. The full length video is here or you can watch the 3 youtube pieces one at a time.
This time Tony even threw in the destruction of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the original Ghostbusters.
And apparently the Captain Catholic team is working on a feature length film for Captain Catholic before they make Episode 4.

Captain Catholic, the Prequel

Tony is back at it again. He's just put out the latest issue of Captain Catholic. Captain Catholic 0, that's right zero, is the origin story of Captain Catholic: Why he left the Swiss Guard, why he came to America and somewhat more of an explanation of his mission. One can find it at the link below:

Episode 0

Captain Catholic comment

I was surprised (and somewhat honored since mine is an obscure blog) to find out that the writer and creator who also plays Captain Catholic wrote a comment in regards to my Captain Catholic post. He also left a comment on the Snoring Scholar blog. However, I will only repost the comment that Tony left on 50 Days After:

Tony said...

Hey there! It was interesting finding this blog, because I'm actually the creator and writer of the Captain Catholic series (Tony DeGennaro - I also acted as Captain Catholic in the series). Thanks for the kind words about the series - although yes, as far as the devil horns and hitler mustaches, I wasn't thinking about how they might be offensive when I put them on. The series is primarily targeted towards teenagers, so it's meant to be taken lightly. You have a good point though - people not a part of the discussion group wouldn't know that.

It's hard to script because I want to have the Church's authentic teaching as the main part of the series, but it's hard to target towards teenagers without putting in 'gags' such as hitler mustaches. You're correct, Extra Ecclesia Nulla Salus is an extremely important part of our Church today, something I was thinking about as I made the video - the thing is it's target audience (the 600 teenagers in the discussion group) are mostly liberal teenage pseudo-Catholics - in other words, they need something to bring them back to the Church, and I thought this message would draw them in.

As a fellow Catholic I'd love to have more advice from you. I want to make sure I'm following the Church's teachings, I do hours of research for each episode. My email address is degennaroa2 at scranton dot edu

Also, if you remember from watching the video, the primary idea of the series is the discussion board, which is located here:

http://scranton.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2218279902

There's about 600 members now. I also have a few multi-page essays explaining the purpose of each episode and the Catholic Church's viewpoint. Thanks for watching, take care and God Bless

Captain Catholic

As I was cruising the internet this morning I discovered two videos on google apparently meant as part of a larger series. I linked to them at the bottom of this post. They are the first two episodes of the Captain Catholic series. That's right, Captain Catholic. His tagline is "Love, Hope and the Catholic Way". He quickly changes, like Superman, into a costume with a cape and boots to take on his nemesis. He also has a "Sin Sense" which tingles like Spiderman's "Spider Sense" I included links to both videos on Google Video since YouTube broke each episode into 3 or 4 pieces each. The videos are a bit over the top, but they have some good apologetics. The second video seems to forget Extra Ecclesia Nulla Salus.
The first video is about greed, capitalism and the church's teachings about both. The villain is Dick DeGreedio. Its only about 17 minutes compared to half hour for the second episode.
The second one deals with Sola Fide, Faith Alone. The villain in this episode is Evangelical Earl. Although I do not agree with Sola Fide I do not agree with their treatment of Evangelical Earl. In the video they drew horns on him along with a Hitler mustache. Aside from that crass attack, it would be an enjoyable video.
Its an interesting and somewhat funny way to get Catholic teaching out there. It has potential and I personally would like to see the future videos.

Episode I

Episode II