*Hated* it!
Maybe if I were 10 years old I would have been all gung-ho for this movie.
There was just too much bad that outweighed what little good there was.
*WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!*
– Stupid CGI groundhogs for a little humor. BAD!
– Brief glimpse of the Ark of the Covenant. SUPER BAD!
It just reminds us of the far, far superior (and more serious) “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
– Mutt’s Marlon Brando entrance. BAD!
– Karen Allen’s part in the movie. BAD!
She’s really only window dressing to help tie Mutt to Indy. Karen Allen was so woefully underused in this movie.
– Mutt playing Tarzan??!?! SUPER, DUPER BAD!!!
– Mac as a double … no, wait … triple agent. BAD!
– Most of the action sequences. BAD!
Rocket Fridge! Tank Chase Through the Amazon! Three Waterfalls of Doom! All super silly and way, way, way over the top (and past any remote possibility of believability).
– Russin Baddies. PRETTY LAME.
As much as I love Cate Blanchett … her character has nowhere near the menace of Toht in “Raiders.”
– Guardians of the Temple of Akator. BAD.
Where the hell did THEY come from and how many years were some of them encased in those columns?!?!
– Aliens. BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD!
I can’t even begin to tell you how much this plot point destroyed the movie for me. They must have thought that they should touch on the “alien” theme since the movie was set in the 50’s. But, honestly, they could have thought something else up. I can buy the “religious” element of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” It’s mysterious. It’s supernatural. It’s scary. To me Aliens and Indiana Jones just DON’T go together.
– The “Happy” Wedding Ending. BAD!
Even with the rest of the movie being pretty lame … this was such an anticlimax. They don’t even give you Mutt putting the hat on (thus shifting us into him being the main character of any potential sequel).
They should have called this movie “Close Encounters of the Indiana Jones Kind.”
Could this movie have been any worse?!?!!?
Ditto.
As much as I wanted to throw this movie a lifeline, it just kept swimming right past it. I was willing to forgive the “nuclear fridge†stratagem (why is it those “duck and cover†schmucks didn’t mention this option?) but the X-Files ending was just too much. I blame George Lucas; he jumped the shark when he turned Yoda in to an animated aerobics instructor and there has been no turning back since.
Yeah. I lay the blame at George Lucas’ feet as well. He hasn’t come up with a good story since “The Empire Strikes Back.”