Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventure Collection (Raiders of the Lost Ark / Temple of Doom / Last Crusade / Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
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Actor: Harrison Ford, Karen AllenDirector: Steven Spielberg
Brand: Paramount
Producer: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Published: 2008-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
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- Condition: Used, Good
- Format: DVD
- Closed-captioned; Color; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventure Collection (Raiders of the Lost Ark / Temple of Doom / Last Crusade / Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
DVD Review: 4 1/2 stars-Entertaining adventure movies!
Summary: 4 Stars
With an almost $2 Billion(!)worldwide gross so far(theatrical take only,this doesn't include DVDs and related merchandise),the Indiana Jones movie franchise has certainly been one of the most successful of its kind in movie history.Certainly with its throwback to the old movie serial story arcs,the plots and action have continued to hold up extremely well.Now with the release of this five DVD set,they are now bundled into one package for your convenience;"Raiders of the Lost Ark"(June,1981),"I.J.and the Temple of Doom"(May,1984),"I.J.and the Last Crusade"(May,1989) and"I.J. and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"(May 2008).
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" concerns the story of and search for the Ark of the Covenant.Set in 1936 the movie opens with Dr.Jones(Ford)in the Peruvian jungle trying to obtain a golden idol head.Through some remarkably tense moments he does so but barely escapes with his life.Just as he thinks he is home free a Frenchman and rival by the name of Belloq(Paul Freeman)confiscates the head.Jones flees for his life and just makes it out.Back home he is approached by Government agents who put him onto a search for the fabled Ark of the Covenant.His first stop is Nepal and his old friend Dr.Ravenwood who has an important artifact and clue.But he has passed away and his daughter Marion(Karen Allen),with whom he has had "contact" before,has possession of the artifact.Before Indy can obtain it Nazis show up also looking for it.Marion and Indy flee to Cairo where they meet up with old friend Sallah(John Rhys Davies)who helps Indy with men,materiel and and his vast local knowledge.After more harrowing times Indy finds the location of the Ark and they just manage to escape with it to England aboard ship;from under the nose of his rival Belloq(who is working with the Germans).But they are intercepted and taken to an island in the Mediterranean to test the Ark.It is opened and a tied up Indy and Marian look away as the Ark's powers destroy the Nazi's.
"I.J.and the Temple of Doom" is set in 1935 and opens with Indy trying to get himself out of the clutches of a Chinese gang in a nightclub in Shanghai.With another hot and fast opening like the previous film,Indy barely manages his escape,but does so with the help of young friend called Short Round(Ke Huy Quan-better known from "Goonies") and accompanied reluctantly by club singer Willie Scott(Kate Capshaw).They flee in an airplane which is unfortunately owned by the self same crime boss he just escaped from.Over the Himalayas the pilots jump out leaving Indy and company to their own devices.They escape near death with the help of a self-inflating raft pushed out the plane and down into a river.They end up in a village which has come upon vary hard times.According to the leader it is because their sacred Sivalinga stone has been taken to the Pankot Palace,where an ancient cult has again arisen to enslave the land and its' peoples,especially the children.Indy goes to the palace and and at first all appears normal until he stumbles onto the truth and finds that a cult is indeed trying to rise up through possession of a number of Savalinga stones.Through more harrowing and life threatening moments Indy retrieves the villages' stone and returns it along with its' previously enslaved children.
"I.J.and the Last Crusade" starts out with a young Indy in 1912 out with a boy scout troop on horse back.He stumbles upon a group of men who have unearthed the Cross of Coronado and which Indy believes belongs in a museum.He steals it from the men and through a very long chase on horseback,on a train and finally on foot he makes it back home;only to have the local Sheriff take it from him and give it to the "rightful" owner.Fast forward to 1938 and he is on board a freighter and the self same "rightful"owner is taking back that self same cross from Indy once again.This time Indy escapes with the cross and the owner and ship both go down together.After being back home a Mr Donovan(Julian Glover) approaches Indy with a proposition to find the Holy Grail,telling him a party of men he has hired has gone missing including its' guide;the guide being Indy's father.With the help of his fathers' diary which he received recently in the mail,he goes first to Venice and meets a rep of Donovan's;a Dr Schneider.She accompanies him during which time he uncovers a tomb of one of the knights of the Crusades and a clue to the starting point of his search.After many tense moments with a group dedicated to keeping the Holy Grail a secret,Jones leaves for Salzburg to rescue his father Dr Jones Sr(Sean Connery).From here both Jones's end up in Turkey and in a cave filled with booby traps.The Nazi's(again,and with Dr.Schneider being one of them)force Indy to go through three deadly traps and into the grail room.It is guarded by one of the original knights who tells him to choose wisely.Donovan is there and chooses unwisely but the cup is not fated to leave the cave and all the good guys barely escape with their lives.The film ends with all riding into a glorious sunset.
"I.J.the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" finds us in 1957 with a fast moving convoy of Army trucks.They come upon a fenced off restricted area and shoot the guards there.We soon find out they are Commies and Indy and a former friend McHale(Ray Winstone)have been kidnapped.They are in Nevada at an Area 51 warehouse and the Soviets,led by Spalko(Cate Blanchett),want Jones to retrieve a case containing an alien body that Jones himself and others unearthed 10 years before in Roswell(Jones was unaware of the contents until then).After escaping the warehouse Indy stumbles into a peaceful"town" only to find it is a phony,one that is in range of a nuclear bomb which is ready to detonate.Indy survives by hiding in a refrigerator and getting blasted into the desert.After decontamination Indy is grilled by the FBI who thinks he's working wuith the Commies.When the FBI later show up at the college where he works the college decides to let him go,not wanting the adverse publicity.Aboard his train leaving Indy is approached by a Mutt Williams(Shia LaBeouf)who says his old professor and friend Dr Oxley(John Hurt) and his mother have been kidnapped in Peru.Off they go and they find Oxley had been in a mental facility there but had since left.However he left behind clues to his whereabouts.They discover a temple with a crystal skull(in the shape of an alien head) and shortly after are captured by the Soviets.In their camp on the Amazon they find Dr Oxley and Mutt's mother Marion Ravenswood(Karen Allen),who tells Indy Mutt is his son(!).After a harrowingly pitched battle run through the jungle,Indy and the gang escape the Commies and find the fabled Akator city where the skull originally came from and a room ringed with skeletal crystal aliens.It seems these are inter dimensional beings and when the crystal head is replaced onto its' proper body it transforms from several into one alien, which comes alive.Spalko takes the knowledge she seeks from the Alien with her to her grave while the rest of the gang barely make it out alive.Indy and party watch as a giant flying saucer rises from beneath the temple rubble and vanishes.The film ends with Indy and Marion finally marrying.
The last film puts a wonderful"cap" on the entire series as it comes full circle with Marion and Indy marrying.The ending also leaves us with a possible opening for a future Indiana Jones movie,but if this turns out to be the last with Harrison Ford,it couldn't go out in any better fashion.Ford climbs into his Indy character here without so much as a hiccup and its shows how he has made the part very much his own.
I think the weakest of the lot here is "Doom",with the first one being the best and the others just a tad below that.I used to think "Crusade" was the weakest but I have gained a new appreciation for the film I originally hadn't had in its' first run.
All the DVDs come with their own multiple special features including trailers,featurettes,new intros by Spielberg and Lucas,photo galleries and more.The only difference in them is that the "Crystal Skull" comes with an extra disc for its special features.The films have all been transferred wonderfully and there are no complaints here at all in picture or sound.All are presented in their original aspect ratio widescreen format and are beautiful to behold.Each disc comes in their own individual slim case.
If you wanted the entire series of Indiana Jones features,these are the ones to get.Each movie has its' patented boffo opening designed to pull you into the film as soon as possible and heart pounding finish,and generally all succeed famously.In between the two are some of the most memorable moments of adventure ever filmed.It's a throwback to the serials of the 30s and 40s for sure but with a more modern sensibility and better special effects.Ford is solid from his first appearance to his last and they couldn't have picked a better man for the job.Get your set of adventures right now!
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Description of Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventure Collection (Raiders of the Lost Ark / Temple of Doom / Last Crusade / Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost ArkIndiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark. A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, among others, Raiders of the Lost Ark is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing 22 million dollars (nearly three times the original estimate), Raiders of the Lost Ark reaped 200 million dollars during its first run. It was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), as well as a short-lived TV-series "prequel."
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The second of the George Lucas/Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones epics is set a year or so before the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1984). After a brief brouhaha involving a precious vial and a wild ride down a raging Himalyan river, Indy (Harrison Ford) gets down to the problem at hand: retrieving a precious gem and several kidnapped young boys on behalf of a remote East Indian village. His companions this time around include a dimbulbed, easily frightened nightclub chanteuse (Kate Capshaw), and a feisty 12-year-old kid named Short Round (Quan Ke Huy). Throughout, the plot takes second place to the thrills, which include a harrowing rollercoaster ride in an abandoned mineshaft and Indy's rescue of the heroine from a ritual sacrifice. There are also a couple of cute references to Raiders of the Lost Ark, notably a funny variation of Indy's shooting of the Sherpa warrior.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged determination to take historical artifacts out of the hands of bad guys and into the museums in which they belong. A grown-up Indy (Harrison Ford) reveals himself shortly afterward in a familiar classroom scene, teaching archeology to a disproportionate number of starry-eyed female college students in 1938. Once again, however, Mr. Jones is drawn away from his day job after an art collector (Julian Glover) approaches him with a proposition to find the much sought after Holy Grail. Circumstances reveal that there was another avid archeologist in search of the famed cup ? Indiana Jones' father, Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery) ? who had recently disappeared during his efforts. The junior and senior members of the Jones family find themselves in a series of tough situations in locales ranging from Venice to the most treacherous spots in the Middle East. Complicating the situation further is the presence of Elsa (Alison Doody), a beautiful and intelligent woman with one fatal flaw: she's an undercover Nazi agent. The search for the grail is a dangerous quest, and its discovery may prove fatal to those who seek it for personal gain. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade earned a then record-breaking $50 million in its first week of release.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas bring you the greatest adventurer of all time in ?a nonstop thrill ride? (Richard Corliss, TIME) that?s packed with ?sensational, awe-inspiring spectacles? (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull finds Indy (Harrison Ford) trying to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent (Cate Blanchett) for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker (Shia LaBeouf) and his spirited original love Marion (Karen Allen), Indy takes you on a breathtaking action-packed adventure in the exciting tradition of the classic Indiana Jones movies!
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
It?s said that the original is the greatest, and there can be no more vivid proof than Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first and indisputably best of the initial three Indiana Jones adventures cooked up by the dream team of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Expectations were high for this 1981 collaboration between the two men, who essentially invented the box office blockbuster with ?70s efforts like Jaws and Star Wars, and Spielberg (who directed) and Lucas (who co-wrote the story and executive produced) didn?t disappoint. This wildly entertaining film has it all: non-stop action, exotic locations, grand spectacle, a hero for the ages, despicable villains, a beautiful love interest, humor, horror? not to mention lots of snakes. And along with all the bits that are so familiar by now--Indy (Harrison Ford) running from the giant boulder in a cave, using his pistol instead of his trusty whip to take out a scimitar-wielding bad guy, facing off with a hissing cobra, and on and on--there?s real resonance in a potent storyline that brings together a profound religious-archaeological icon (the Ark of the Covenant, nothing less than "a radio for speaking to God") and the 20th century?s most infamous criminals (the Nazis). Now that?s entertainment. --Sam Graham
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
It?s hard to imagine that a film with worldwide box office receipts topping $300 million worldwide could be labeled a disappointment, but some moviegoers considered Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas? 1980s adventure trilogy, to be just that. That doesn?t mean it?s a bad effort; any collaboration between these two cinema giants (Spielberg directed, while Lucas provided the story and was executive producer) is bound to have more than its share of terrific moments, and Temple of Doom is no exception. But in exchanging the very real threat of Nazi Germany for the cartoonish Thuggee cult, it loses some of the heft of its predecessor (Raiders of the Lost Ark); on the other hand, it?s also the darkest and most disturbing of the three films, what with multiple scenes of children enslaved, a heart pulled out of a man?s chest, and the immolation of a sacrificial victim, which makes it less fun than either Raiders or The Last Crusade, notwithstanding a couple of riotous chase scenes and impressively grand sets. Many fans were also less than thrilled with the new love interest, a spoiled, querulous nightclub singer portrayed by Kate Capshaw, but a cute kid sidekick ("Short Round," played by Ke Huy Quan) and, of course, the ever-reliable Harrison Ford as the cynical-but-swashbuckling hero more than make up for that character?s shortcomings.
A six-minute introduction by Lucas and Spielberg is the prime special feature, with both men candidly addressing the film?s good and bad points (Lucas points out that the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, was also the darkest of the original three; as for Spielberg, the fact that the leading lady would soon become his wife was the best part of the whole trip). Also good are "The Creepy Crawlies," a mini-doc about the thousands of snakes, bugs, rats and other scary critters that populate the trilogy, and "Travels with Indy," a look at some of the films? cool locations. Storyboards and a photo gallery are included as well. --Sam Graham
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Not as good as the first one, but better than the second. That?s been the consensus opinion regarding Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the final installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas? original adventure trilogy, throughout the nearly two decades since its 1989 theatrical release. It?s a fair assessment. After the relatively dark and disturbing Temple of Doom (1984), The Last Crusade (1989) recalls the sheer fun of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). With its variety of colorful locations, multiple chase scenes (the opening sequence on a circus train, with River Phoenix as the young Indy, is one of the best of the series, as is the boat chase through the canals of Venice), and cloak-and-dagger vibe, it?s the closest in tone to a James Bond outing, which director Spielberg has noted was the inspiration for the trilogy in the first place; what?s more, it harkens back to Raiders in its choice of villains (i.e., the Nazis--Indy even comes face to face with Hitler at a rally in Berlin) and its quest for an antiquity of incalculable value and significance (the Holy Grail, the chalice said to have been the receptacle of Christ's blood as he hung on the cross). Add to that the presence of Sean Connery, playing Indy?s father and having a field day opposite Harrison Ford, and you?ve got a most welcome return to form.
Special features include a six-minute introduction by Spielberg and Lucas, who discuss the grail as a metaphor for bringing Indy and his estranged father together and agree that Crusade is the funniest of the three films; "Indy?s Women," an American Film Institute tribute with leading ladies Karen Allen, Kate Capshaw, and Alison Doody each discussing her character (Capshaw candidly describes Temple of Doom?s Willie Scott as "whiny, petulant, and annoying"); "Indy?s Friends and Enemies," a look at the films? various villains and sidekicks; plus storyboards and photo galleries. --Sam Graham
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Nearly 20 years after riding his last Crusade, Harrison Ford makes a welcome return as archaeologist/relic hunter Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, an action-packed fourth installment that's, in a nutshell, less memorable than the first three but great nostalgia for fans of the series. Producer George Lucas and screenwriter David Koepp (War of the Worlds) set the film during the cold war, as the Soviets--replacing Nazis as Indy's villains of choice and led by a sword-wielding Cate Blanchett with black bob and sunglasses--are in pursuit of a crystal skull, which has mystical powers related to a city of gold. After escaping from them in a spectacular opening action sequence, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young greaser (Shia LaBeouf) whose friend--and Indy's colleague--Professor Oxley (John Hurt) has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts. Whatever secrets the skull holds are tertiary; its reveal is the weakest part of the movie, as the CGI effects that inevitably accompany it feel jarring next to the boulder-rolling world of Indy audiences knew and loved. There's plenty of comedy, delightful stunts--ants play a deadly role here--and the return of Raiders love interest Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood, once shrill but now softened, giving her ex-love bemused glances and eye-rolls as he huffs his way to save the day. Which brings us to Ford: bullwhip still in hand, he's a little creakier, a lot grayer, but still twice the action hero of anyone in film today. With all the anticipation and hype leading up to the film's release, perhaps no reunion is sweeter than that of Ford with the role that fits him as snugly as that fedora hat. --Ellen A. Kim
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