Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth
Screenwriter: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Story: George Lucas
Producer: Robert Watts
Composer: John Williams
DVD Info
Release:
May 20, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio:
- (unspecified) - Spanish
- Subtitles - English
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Reviews
...makes you wonder if Spielberg and series producer George Lucas might have been going through some sort of drug phase.
While The Temple of Doom is a bit gloomy, puts children in danger, and confines its action primarily to one spot, it's still quite entertaining.
A breakneck adventure that moves at twice the pace of the original but has only half the creative strength.
Fantastically choreographed action sequences and another comely companion for Indy (Capshaw) and gloriously overdone visual devices make up for the shameless lack of plot.
Pic comes on like a sledgehammer, and there's even a taste of vulgarity and senseless excess not apparent in Raiders.
The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face.
Though not as thrilling as Raiders of the Lost Ark, the second chapter still has merits, particularly its fast pacing, spectacular opening scene, and visual effects, which won the Oscars in 1984.
...it's cathartic as hell, for Spielberg and for those of us who go for the ride. The mayhem is transporting, inspired, exultant...
Set years before the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun.
Part of the trouble is that anything clearly does go, including the slender hold on credibility that Raiders managed to maintain.
I honestly think this edgier prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark does an even better job of being a non-stop rollercoaster ride than the original.
All action and little story made for an entertaining followup to the adventure classic.
Terrific opening with 'Anything Goes' in Chinese -- then the kid shows up and it's downhill.
Only so so follow up to "Raiders." Extra points off for the very annoying Short Round.
The kind of movie where your date is always grabbing your forearm in a viselike grip, as unbearable excitement unfolds on the screen. After the movie is over, you've had a great time but your arm is black-and-blue for a week.
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