I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last night with my brother and his best friend. First of all let me just tell you that I LOVE Harrison Ford, and I have since junior high. I don’t know what it is about him, but I think he is so good-looking (although he is getting up in years now - I prefer Star Wars/original Indy era HF) and I will probably go see any movie he’s in. In fact, I have gone to see some not-so-great movies, just because he was in them. It’s my blessing and my curse.

I also have a newfound love for Shia LaBeouf.  I think that kid (I can call him that because he’s younger than me, if only by a year or something like that) is going to be a major star. Maybe not a blockbuster actor, but someone whose movies will always be enjoyable. Like Harrison Ford!  He’s pretty good-looking too.

But anyways, this is not about how much I enjoyed looking at this movie. It’s about how much I actually enjoyed it.  Maybe a little overkill in some parts (the refrigerator, anyone? Or the vine-swinging?) but it was a blast.  And I think it kept true to the spirit of Indiana Jones.

The subject matter was a little bizarre - I won’t go into too much detail because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it, although I think this might be online already - but once I really thought about it, it’s no more bizarre than any of the other Indy story-lines!  I was discussing it with some friends tonight over coffee (and next to a giant sign that wanted to kill us), and it falls more in the supernatural-type category, like Temple of Doom, rather than the Biblically-based stories in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Last Crusade, which might be why people don’t like it as much. Temple of Doom is definitely my least favorite of the four, and I think it’s the same for a lot of other people.

Granted, I would take the other three over this one (although maybe not Temple), but I think any sequel made so long after the other movies in the series have become cinematic history would have that same reaction.  The first three are classics, there’s no changing that. But I think this one can hold its own against the originals. It entertains for a couple of hours, and sometimes that’s just all you need. And come on - any movie that brings Harrison Ford back to the silver screen is going to be ok in my book.