This week, in homes across the land, there is one guarantee: somewhere, someone will be watching one of the Indiana Jones films, and it’ll likely be the first or the third in the series.
Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are little less than perfect seasonal comfort food: witty, exciting, stuffed full of indelible characters and unforgettable set-piece action scenes. These films stand as those rare pictures that, however many times you watch them, continue to be fabulously entertaining. The others in the franchise – Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – are less effective, and the latter has become a byword for mediocrity. Yet all are, at their least, an entertaining enough way of passing a couple of hours, and, at their best, considerably more than that.
It should therefore be good news that a fifth Indiana Jones film – as yet untitled beyond Indiana Jones 5 – will be released in June, featuring the return of the now 80-year-old Harrison Ford to his most iconic role (sorry, Star Wars and Regarding Henry fans).
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