Movie Review - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Movie review number 33

PLOT
This movie starts in the Nevada Desert in 1957, with the arrival of an Army patrol at a Highly Restricted Army Base.  They're initially refused entry, but then armed personnel jump out of the vans, and gun down the US guards and force their way in....... and then park the vans outside a storage facility and drag Indiana Jones out of the boot of one of the vans!!!  The Army patrol turn out to be Russian KGB headed by Cate Blanchett wanting to search the storage facility for something that Indy had found ten years previously...... which eventually turned out to be a corpse of an alien!!!  Indy escapes, only to find the US army are about to test a nuclear bomb!!!!! OH NO!!!
He escapes from that to return to his university campus, only to have the FBI ransack his office and then he gets fired from his job.  He packs, and gets on a train somewhere but is accosted by a young man (Shia LaBoeuf) on a motorbike who later explains that young man's Mother (who Indy knew in movie one) is lost in South America somewhere having gone there to rescue young man's stepdad (John Hurt) who was lost searching for a crystal skull, that is the key to the gold of El Dorado.  Russian Spies find them, and there's a mad car chase ending in Indy and Young Man on a plane to Peru!!!!
In Peru, Indy and Young Man are kidnapped by Cate Blanchett and the Russians, who also have John Hurt (who's half mad) and Young Man's Mum who Indy then recognises as Girlfriend from movie one....... and then discovers that Young Man is actually his son, Henry Junior the third!!!!
They find the location of the Crystal Skull and also the location of where it's supposed to be.... and after another crazy car chase and some human-eating ants.... there's a very exciting ending AND A WEDDING!!!!!

RECOMMENDED
Oh yes indeedy!!

SCORE
9 squeaks out of 10

SCOOBY SNACKS
Make your own tacos with refried beans and Dos Equis beer

Movie Review - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Movie Review number 29

PLOT
This movie starts in the late 1890s with a schoolboy Indy Jones (played by River Phoenix) on a boyscout trip out into the Arizona Desert.  After horse trekking for a while, they stop near a cave, and Young Indy investigates and discovers treasure being stolen from a mine.  Young Indy steals the treasure from the baddies and takes it home (chased by the baddies!) to Dad.  Just as Young Indy arrives home, the sheriff arrives - with the baddies to reclaim the treasure!!!
Fast forward to Harrison Ford Indy, now Professor of Archaeology in University, and he's just back from a trip to the High Seas, claiming back more treasure for the museums.  After class, he goes to his office and picks up a small package that arrived in the mail, and then escapes the mass of hormonal female students outside his office by escaping out of the window.  A Man In A Suit And Hat arrives in a posh car (with other men in suits) to discuss something The Man In A Suit is interested in....... The Grail!!  Man In Suit had sent "someone" to Venice to try and discover clues to find the grail, but "someone" had gone missing, so Man In Suit came to see Indy, but Indy says Indy's Dad would be the guy to talk to as Dad's life's work was where the Holy Grail was hidden....... and it turns out that the "someone" who'd gone missing WAS Indy's Dad!!!
So..... Indiana Jones then takes a plane to Venice Italy, to find his Dad.  He is met by Blonde Female Professor who takes him to the library where Dad went missing... and Indy discovers a tomb underneath the library (converted church) of one of the Knights who had hidden the Grail, and then finds the missing part of clue!  Then there's a speedboat chase through the canals between the Grail Guardians and Indy and the blonde Professor.  Indy and the blonde Professor discover that Indy's Dad is being held in a castle on the Austo-German border.  So off they go to the castle!!!
In the castle, they find Indy's Dad (played by Sean Connery) and then discover that the blonde Professor is one of the Nazi's who'd kidnapped Dad!!!  And so is the Man In A Suit And Hat!!!  OH NO!!
Indy and his Dad manage to escape the Nazi's and then there's a motorbike chase to get away.  They go to Berlin first to get Dad's Grail Diary back, and then board a Zeppelin to get out of Germany.  But the Nazi's discover them, so Indy and Dad board the little plane underneath the Zeppelin to escape!!
THEN they go to Alexandria which is the nearest town to where the Grail is hidden, closely followed by the Nazi's.  Indy and his Dad find the temple where the Grail is, but just as they get there, they find the Nazi's got there first...... but will they find the Grail and will it be the right one????

RECOMMENDED

Oh yes indeedy!!  Sean Connery does a very good Indy's Dad!!

RATING

8.5 out of 10

SCOOBY SNACKS
sauerkraut and baklava cakes

Movie review - "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"

movie review number 24

PLOT

This movie starts in Club Obi Wan in Shanghai with a blonde cabaret singer singing a Bing Crosby song in Chinese.  Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) walks in and sits with three Chinese businessmen to do a deal.  He receives first some money which he rejects and gets a diamond and a poisonned drink.  He hand over a valuable vase in exchange and takes a sip when they tell him it's poisonned.  There's then a huge fight in the club while Indiana and the blonde singer try and get back the diamond and the antidote for the poison and then they escape by jumping out of the window and falling into a car driven by a little kid.  Then there's a high speed chase to the airport where Indy, Blonde and Kid jump into an airplane that takes off!!
When Indy, Blonde and Kid fall asleep, the two pilots take the only two parachutes and jump out of the plane!!  Indy & the others wake up and escape the plane by using an inflatable rubber dingy as a parachute!  The plane crashes into a mountain, and the three end up "skiing" the dingy down the mountain, jump off the mountain side and into a river!!  They come ashore in India, and follow an old Indian man to a tiny village...... with no children in it...... Uh Oh!!
Indy, Blond and Kid are told a story of a magic Shankara stone that's been stolen by A Hideous Nasty Cult, who have also stolen all the children and that Indy has been brought to the village by Shiva, to rescue the stone and children!!!!  Indy, blond and Kid are shown the way to A Big Palace with the Maharaja lives..... who's about 10 years old!  They're served a fancy dinner of bugs and Eye Soup and chilled Monkey brains before retiring to bed.  THEN, Indy discovers A Secret Passageway!!!  He decides to follow it (so do Kid and Blond eventually!) and they discover the Hideous Nasty Cult is under the Big Palace!!!  And some of the Maharajah's staff work there!!!!!  OH NO!!!
It turns out that Hideous Nasty Cult have stolen three Shankara stones and are using the stolen children to dig in big caves to find the other two so Cult can Rule The World!!  Indy then decides to steal back the three they've got..... but he gets caught and made to join the cult!!  And THEN they try to make a human sacrifice of The Blonde!!!  OH NO!!
But they all manage to escape and have a really exciting rollercoaster ride through the tunnels in a big mining trolley, but then nearly get washed out of the tunnels by a big flood!!!
WILL THEY GET HOME SAFELY?????
You'll have to watch to find out!!

RECOMMENDED

Oh yes indeedy!!

SCORE

Beanie says nine squeaks out of ten - lost a squeak because the blond screams so much.  She's a bit annoying.

SCOOBY SNACKS
Classic popcorn movie

Movie Review - "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark"

Movie review number19

PLOT

This movie stars Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, archaeology professor by day, Adventure man and saviour of democracy on his vacations!!  It's set in the 1930s around the time the Nazi party is in power in Germany.
 This story concerns a medallion that describes the location of the Arc of the Covenant which has been lost in history but the Nasty Nazi's are hunting for it so they can use the Arc's powers for bad stuff.
 This movie starts in a ramshackle bar in Nepal, and a drinking showdown between a local drunk and the American lady bar owner.  Who wins the drinking match and then tells everyone to leave because the bar's closed.  As she tidies up, Indiana Jones arrives asking about a Medallion that her father owned (and it's clear that the bar owner and Indy know each other and can't stand the sight of each other!)  She pretends she doesn't know what he's on about and tells him to bugger off, so he does.  She then pulls out the medallion on a chain from under her blouse, takes it off and hangs it near a lit candle in a bottle.
Then some Nasty Nazis arrive asking about the same medallion...... and threaten the bar owner and Indy comes to the rescue and a fight starts!!!!  The bottle with the lit candle that has now has the medallion on it falls over and starts a fire!!  OH NO!!!  One of the Nasty Nazi's sees the medallion and goes to grab it but because it's been heated by the fire, it burns him and he screams and drops it!  The Nasty Nazi's run away and Indy saves the woman and the bar owner.
Indy and the woman then go to Egypt to try and discover the Arc of the Covenant before the Nasty Nazi's get it, only to find the Nasty Nazi's have found the location..... but are digging in the wrong place!!  Indy discovers the "right" place (infested with snakes which he's totally phobic about!), finds the arc but then the Nasty Nazi's discover that he's found it and pinch it off him.  There's then a mad race between the Nasty Nazi's and Indy to recover the Arc........ and the Nasty Nazi's all come to a very gruesome end!!
The Arc is then place In A Safe Place which is revisited in a later movie.....!

RECOMMENDED
This is great fun!!!!

SCORE 

Beanie says 9 squeaks out of 10!!

RECOMMENDED SCOOBY SNACKS
Jellied eels and smashed up cookies or English biscuits.