May 26 at 8:10 am
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"This movie was like Lucas and Spielberg got together and decided to make a movie that was LIKE an Indy movie, but not actually try very hard. The entire alien plot is way outside the realm of the first 3 movies - those all dealt with spiritual realms of fantasy. Bringing in Area51 and the whole alien plot just wrecked it for me. Had they gone with a plot where the crystal skull had some sort of archaeological significance and then added in a spiritual/fantasy element to it, the film would have fit right in with the other 3. But this was just Indy meets Close Encounters. Additionally, there were so many simply poorly written elements - the thing is "magnetic" but only to certain things at certain times (which just so happen to fit that particular moment of the plot). Indy has always had moments of "that's totally impossible, but I'm going to let it go because it's a movie" but they always were at least barely plausible. This one had moments where it was just plain silly - swinging with..." - Paul Griswold
It was entertaining, but I was disappointed to see them go SO over-the-top. Also, the movie was filled with too many winks and nods to the first 3 movies to seemingly appease the fanboys. Including Indy looking longingly at the picture of his dead father that looked like it was taken the day before shooting began. Too much. It was also disturbing to see Karen Allen smiling so much in the movie no matter what the situation. You could tell she was really happy to be in such a big movie. - Vince DeGeorge