Our daily series where Allison Keene watches the Indiana Jones movies for the first time. Read her intro/explanation here, and here's her reviews of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom) Praise be to the sequel gods for The Last Crusade, which did right by the franchise by stabilizing things from the shaky ground of Temple of Doom. After I had some time to digest that later film I still think it's the odd man out in the franchise (so far). It's a B-movie from front to back, and while that's not a bad thing on its own, it just doesn't fit in with the rest of the Indiana movies. For Last Crusade, Steven Spielberg wisely returned things to their Lost Ark roots: Nazis, Biblical artifacts, and a new PG-13 rating. After what I had seen under the PG banner in the last two films, I was practically expecting a two hour orgy of sex and death. Instead, I got a really funny and engaging movie. Whodda thunk? Hit the jump for why this was definitely the best of the franchise. The time jumps have never made a lot of sense to me. Why did we jump back in time in the second installment just to yo-yo forward in the third, especially when there's no relationship continuity to keep track of? Short Round never turned up again, neither did Marion (which surprised me). In fact, the Ravenwoods seem to be forgotten entirely -- whatever happened to Abner Ravenwood, supposedly Indy's ...
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