Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - Movie Details

Flying over the mountains of Asia, Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott are forced to jump out of the plane using an inflatable rubber raft as a parachute. They soon stumble across a poor village with no children and the community's leader hires Indiana to retrieve the village's sacred stone which was stolen by their neighbors.

Though appearing civilized at first, the temple, and the Maharajah himself, turn out to...

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Movie Review

The Temple of Doom was quite different from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Actually set a few years earlier, Stephen Spielberg took everything that people loved in the original and doubled it. There was more action, more comedy, and non-stop thrills, the whole way through, which beat out Raiders of the Lost Ark. What didn't beat out it's predecessor though was the story which was too dark, too grim, and too gory. Willie Scott was incredibly annoying, screaming hysterically the whole time, which did not make the movie more enjoyable. Usually, people love it when movies are different from one another but Temple of Doom was far more different than Raiders of the Lost Ark to be considered better. Full movie review »

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