To say it in crude South Park language, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg “raped” Indiana Jones. The series should have never been resurrected. It should have been protected from this type of horrible movie. The movie is so bad that I recommend that you DON’T rent it solely for the fact that it may wreck whatever good feeling you had about the Indiana Jones series. Lets start with the plot. Okay, a supernatural conclusion in an unsupernatural movie NEVER works out. Its like having Desperate Housewives conclude with Eva Longoria in a bikini but taken away by aliens from the (dwarf) planet Pluto. Okay that made no sense, but this new Indiana Jones DVD doesn’t either, so everything fits.
And don’t get me started on the casting of Shia LeBeouf as the son of Indiana. Okay, I started and I must finish the deed. As in his other roles, he plays the awkward…wait a minute! He (attempts) to play a bad ass with a motorcycle! Shia + Baddass is never a good idea. Shia absolutely THRIVES when given a geeky and lovable role (a la Sam in Transformers or even as the cute, but possibly bisexual, Louis Anthony Stevens from that Disney show). But he just stinks it up in Indiana Jones. And sorry to break it to ya, but the LAST (L A S T) scene of the ENTIRE Indiana series is Shia awkwardly walking out of a church holding his dad’s hat. Wow. Like imagine the Star Wars series ending with C3PO and R2-D2 buzzing and beeping along, just casually walking away from the camera. LAMEEE!
I can only give Harrison Ford some credit for being so old and at least giving it one more shot. But too bad it had to end with this terrible and tarnishing (to the Indiana series) movie. I only recommend this movie if you are in dire need of something to make you REALLY pissed because you have a UFC match in an hour and you need to get pumped. The scene when Shia swings with monkeys is just MIND BLOWING!
Stats:
Rating: 1/2 out of 5 Bones
Attention Span: 30 mins, then makeout with your partner while listening to the unexplainably stupid dialogue for 90 minutes.
DVD’s Value: A used coupon to Path Mark. Maybe Spielberg will be there and give you food for no good reason! Just like he wrecked the seri…okay, I’ll stop with the hate.