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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

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Reviews Counted:58

Fresh:49

Rotten:9

Average Rating:7.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Filmmaker Steven Spielberg returns as director for this rip-roaring prequel to 1981's smash hit RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Here dashing, whip-wielding archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison... Filmmaker Steven Spielberg returns as director for this rip-roaring prequel to 1981's smash hit RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Here dashing, whip-wielding archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is joined by comely chanteuse Willie (Kate Capshaw) and a 12-year-old sidekick named Short Round (Ke Huy Quan). Together they search for a mystical stone stolen from an Indian community and stumble upon a dangerous Thuggee cult. Exotic locales, wild chases, death-defying cliffhangers, last-minute rescues, screaming damsels, and tribal sacrifices are the order of the day as the threesome attempt to acquire the stolen stone. A few scenes originally planned for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK showed up in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM--most notably the mine chase sequence, which was part of the 80 percent of TEMPLE OF DOOM shot on a soundstage. After the film's release, the MPAA's Classification & Ratings Board created a new rating--PG-13. Spielberg cast actress Kate Capshaw, who would later become his real-life wife, for the film. [More]

Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri

Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone

Director: Steven Spielberg

Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Story: George Lucas
Producer: Robert Watts
Composer: John Williams

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Fantastically choreographed action sequences and another comely companion for Indy (Capshaw) and gloriously overdone visual devices make up for the shameless lack of plot.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/05/08
Channel 4 Film
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Part of the trouble is that anything clearly does go, including the slender hold on credibility that Raiders managed to maintain.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 1 Comment
06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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exciting, but the weakest film of the trilogy

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09/19/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

There's plenty of rip-roaring action to distract us from the more unpalatable elements.

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01/10/02
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
BBC
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The sustained furore of humour, visual panache and headlong momentum makes for dazzling cinema. All of which makes it possibly Spielberg's most underrated film.

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01/01/00
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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Click to read the article

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment 1 Comment
06/10/08
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

...an obvious step down from its stellar predecessor...

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05/26/08
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

[T]he best of the Indiana Jones movies...it's insanely wonderful, in every sense of those words.

Full Review Source: LYTRules.com | comment 1 Comment
05/25/08
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
LYTRules.com

It lacks the sense of detail that made Raiders such a treat. It isn't very clever, very funny or very compelling.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment 1 Comment
05/22/08
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

The reality is that this is the film that comes closest to reflecting the racism, sexism and jingoism that fuelled most of the serials that originally sparked Spielberg and George Lucas's impressionable young imaginations.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
05/21/08
Eric Henderson
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine

Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
05/21/08
Brian Holcomb
Brian Holcomb
CinemaBlend.com

If it was a sign of the times for Indiana Jones to take on more of a comic-book aspect, the film's accomodation of darker themes and explicit imagery came as something of a shock to many.

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
05/14/08
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

...makes you wonder if Spielberg and series producer George Lucas might have been going through some sort of drug phase.

Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm | comment 5 Comments
05/07/08
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm

While The Temple of Doom is a bit gloomy, puts children in danger, and confines its action primarily to one spot, it's still quite entertaining.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
05/07/08
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

A breakneck adventure that moves at twice the pace of the original but has only half the creative strength.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/05/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Pic comes on like a sledgehammer, and there's even a taste of vulgarity and senseless excess not apparent in Raiders.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment 1 Comment
05/05/08
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 11 Comments
05/05/08
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader

Though not as thrilling as Raiders of the Lost Ark, the second chapter still has merits, particularly its fast pacing, spectacular opening scene, and visual effects, which won the Oscars in 1984.

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04/29/08
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

See website for more details.

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03/10/08
Rory L. Aronsky
Rory L. Aronsky
Screen It!

darker indiana, still grand

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment Comment
02/15/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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