Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Cristal Skull (2008) and Sex & the City (2008)
[Incredulous] "You're named after the dog?"
I could say the real "aha" moment in this installment of I. Jones comes early on, when the aforementioned hero jumps into a lead-lined refrigerator to survive a nuclear blast. "So they really did unfreeze him for this movie," I would tell myself as he struggles out of the battered fridge.
But that's too easy. The fun of the film is in making Jones into a family man. I suppose that's like the last one, putting him in the "son" role, but it works. The lead woman is light, as is the kid, and pretty much everyone, gophers, attack monkeys, aliens and commies included. It keeps a sense of humor and doesn't go on too long, like the other film I saw last weekend, Sex & the City.
Yeah, Sex is stuffed with references and undeveloped characters, so watch the series first. Or don't, and don't. But it is generally a good time and more dramatically interesting than, say, the giant jungle car battle scene in I. Jones.
So go for the killer ants in Jones and the killer fashion in Sex, and stay for the laughs. Or go for a walk instead.
SPOILER ALERT Both of these films end in white weddings, er, weddings of whites.
I could say the real "aha" moment in this installment of I. Jones comes early on, when the aforementioned hero jumps into a lead-lined refrigerator to survive a nuclear blast. "So they really did unfreeze him for this movie," I would tell myself as he struggles out of the battered fridge.
But that's too easy. The fun of the film is in making Jones into a family man. I suppose that's like the last one, putting him in the "son" role, but it works. The lead woman is light, as is the kid, and pretty much everyone, gophers, attack monkeys, aliens and commies included. It keeps a sense of humor and doesn't go on too long, like the other film I saw last weekend, Sex & the City.
Yeah, Sex is stuffed with references and undeveloped characters, so watch the series first. Or don't, and don't. But it is generally a good time and more dramatically interesting than, say, the giant jungle car battle scene in I. Jones.
So go for the killer ants in Jones and the killer fashion in Sex, and stay for the laughs. Or go for a walk instead.
SPOILER ALERT Both of these films end in white weddings, er, weddings of whites.
Labels: action adventure, girl power, Globe-trotting, GOLD, lost hats, Lots of Quotable One-Liners, Sequel
posted by Pete @ 2:50 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:36 PM,
Jon said…
Hahahaha Cristal Skull. Did Jay-Z show up and then reject and denounce the skull as racist?
At 5:05 PM,
Pete said…
The idea that aliens had to come down and teach the natives new technology - think the Pyramids - is central in this film. The spear-throwing locals obviously could not create such beautiful cities on their own. So yes, the skull was patently racist, as Jay-Z would attest.
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