Our daily series where Allison Keene watches the Indiana Jones movies for the first time. Read her intro/explanation here, and here's her review of Raiders of the Lost Ark.) On the momentum from Raiders of the Lost Ark, I got my popcorn ready for another rough and tumble installment of maybe the raciest PG movie series ever. But Temple of Doom left me and my popcorn cold. It may be the most unnecessary prequel-sequel I've ever seen. It didn't add anything to the Lost Ark storyline. It actually didn't incorporate any elements of the original besides the fact that Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. The museum, the Ravenwoods, the class he never teaches … not even mentioned. Instead we get dropped in Shanghai and confoundingly dazzled by a musical number before a John Woo film breaks out. What? Temple of Doom was violent, but not as much as Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was more specifically gruesome. Still, death by crushing machine, alligator, burning pit of lava, etc, is pretty bad, but them's the breaks when you are dealing with Indy. Hit the jump for why I don't think I'll be setting India as a vacation destination any time soon. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark, there was a really strong old-school adventure feel to Temple of Doom that I liked, but at the same time, there were some pretty gratuitous racial issues. And this being 1984, people should have known better. Was Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan) some kind of reparation for ...
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