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Crystal Skull isn't bad -- there are a few dazzling sequences, and a couple of good performances -- but the unprecedented blend of comedy and action that made the movies so much more fun than any other adventure series is mostly gone.
There's nothing but entertainment value here.
The action is the movie's raison d'être, of course, but the setups are wittier than the payoffs.
Crystal Skull is a fun ride, but if we have to wait 19 years for the next one, that's OK by me.
Expecting Brando-esque menace or Dreyfus-ian uplift from the Indiana Jones tetralogy is like going to the candy counter at the mall multiplex and asking for some goat cheese and a nice cabernet.
Even as the movie occasionally trips over its nostalgias, it's still a likable, if unremarkable, entertainment, a pleasant echo of past delights.
Senior citizens' special of the year, a popcorn movie made from, uh, mature corn.
If anyone was worried that Ford was just too old to put the hat back on, Crystal Skull should lay that to rest. There's still life in the old franchise yet.
I'll answer the most important question first. Yes, there is a Wilhelm scream in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- the fourth movie about Henry Jones, Jr. -- is as comfortable as an old shoe. Or an old hat. Actually it is old hat. It's comfortable, but it's also worn and slack.
Although it carries a certain level of slickness to it, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull shows that although the times have changed - both in the film and for the viewing audience - Indiana Jones hasn't. And that's a problem.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull may not be Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it's hardly Spielberg and Lucas raping your childhood hero.
The DVD release is worthy of the series' name.
as close to an encyclopedia of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as fans could wish for
Thank your lucky stars that Harrison Ford still has the charisma to reinvent one of the most-beloved characters in screen history.
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