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The Adventures of Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark/The Temple of Doom/The Last Crusade) - Widescreen Customer Reviews (49 - 51 of 140 Reviews)

PG? Ha! Not Great for Kids After All
My kids (5 and 7) are just starting to appreciate action movies, so my husband and I checked out the rating (a nice, safe PG) and thought Indiana Jones would be perfect. Wrong! Way too many shootings and cursing, not to mention bodies with spikes through their heads, corpses aplenty, bad guys getting chewed up by plane props and blood splattering everywhere... and let us not forget the Nazi's face melting when the Ark is opened. The scores were also far more lackluster than I had remembered, and I do love John Williams. Overall, disappointing.

Each movie is a 5, the set is a 4
Ok this set could have offered a lot more and they should have known the fans would be very demanding. The extras are pretty limited. Also this set does come with a lot of defects. I actually bought my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd set at Best Buy. They were sorry for all my troubles. The thought it was a great idea to piece together a working set from all of the defective ones. Thankfully they had labeled each set with which movie was defective. They also gave me a $10 gift card for my idea. Apparently a lot of them came damaged so don't be too surprised if it happens to you.

I am assuming everyone has seen the movies so i will just give a brief description of each:

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indy gets recruited to by the U.S. government to find the lost Ark of the Covenant. He is in a race against a rival archaeologist and the Nazis to recover something that could tip the scales in Hitler's favor. Most of the movie takes place in Egypt with a quick stop to Nepal. Indy gets the girl.

Temple of Doom: Indy evades getting shot by a Chinese mob boss only to go down in a plane crash at the hands of the same boss. He crashes into India and meets up with a dying Indian village. He must save the village's children, recover a mystical stone and defeat an ancient cult. This movie takes place in Shanghai China and India. Indy gets the girl.

Last Crusade: This is a new take on the Grail legend. Indy's father disappears while looking for the Grail. Indy goes looking for his father and gets caught up in the search for the Grail. In this he is also in a race against the Nazis. This movie also shows Indy as a kid and how he came to be the archaeologist that we all love. This movie takes place in America, off the coast of Portugal, Venice, Austria, Germany, and Turkey. Indy loses the girl.


This is some of Steven Speilberg's best work
I have seen all three of these films on VHS tapes and on TV and I can say I love all three. Raiders Of The Lost Ark is a good film, The Temple of Doom is my personal favorite of the three, and The Last Crusade is the second best in the trilogy. I have yet to own these DVDs but, when I get the chance I will get them.

P.S. These, DUEL, THE FIRST TWO JURASSIC PARKS, JAWS, are Speilberg at his best.

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