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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

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Release Date: May 23, 1984
On DVD: May 13, 2008
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action
Running Time: 118 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: George Lucas, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Roy Chiao, David Yip, Ric Young, Chua Kah Joo, Rex Ngui

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 Read more

Movie Review

Grade: B 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. Read the full movie review

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