Girl One and I finally got to see this this week. Here are five things that I thought about it:
Perhaps because we hadn’t built it up in our heads at all, and had had any expectations that we might have built up smashed down by dissapointed audiences, we both really enjoyed it. It’s difficult to know whether it will be relegated to the same “loved watching it, never feel like watching it again” status as “Last Crusade” was for me, but it felt like a better rounded and more individual film than any of the other Indy sequels.
It’s a beautifully made and wonderful looking film, and I can forgive CGI groundhogs and monkeys – there’s the tweeness in Raiders of the little monkey after all, and it doesn’t upset me there – but there are a couple of odd moments. Early on, Indy and one of his traditional “end boss” baddies fall through a skylight onto a hanging light array, and there’s a quite obvious glitch where the wires slow them down before they land on it.
And that snake? That it looks fake isn’t a problem, but I’m fairly sure a real snake’s head might pop off if you tried to use it that way.
Harrison Ford as Indy does a convincing enough job, though, that we didn’t find ourselves struggling with his age nearly as much as when he started dating Callista Flockhart.
