It's time for an Honest Movie Opinion by Kevin "Dissy" Note: Minor Spoilers, nothing you can't get from the trailers, and some useless information that somehow made the final cut.
I'll admit, I went into the movie with mixed opinions. I was really expecting something a la the first three. The introduction was really lame. The first few minutes made me roll my eyes in disgust. But then, then we get some action going. We see the classic fedora before we see the man under the hat. We also get introduced to the main villian, Colonel Doctor Ivanna Humalot, or something. This isn't your old villians. Kate Blanchet's accent keeps switching from crappy Russian to her normal English one. She also is some sort of psi-ops officer.
We jump into the warehouse scene, and the signature character gets betrayed, oh, and the ark is there as well. He attempts an escape, and succeeds, only to get stuck in a "town" where a nuclear bomb is about to be dropped on. How does he escape? He hides in a lead refrigerator, which gets blown a mile or so away, which he crawls out of. Next scene, we get The Janitor from Scrubs, pretending to be an FBI agent. But we all see right through his disguise. This is just one of Janitor's fantasies. Well, the FBI black lists Indy as a possible Commie. The FBI ransacks his office and gets Indy fired, but ... Lucas has another strange tangent which leads to the revelation that Marcos Brody (played by Elliot Delholm in Raiders and Last Crucade died several years ago) is dead, and so is Dad (Sean Connery).
Next scene introduces Mutt, and we get 30 minutes of American Graffiti. After that, we go to Peru, and we find the said Kystal Skull. From here, the movie is all down hill. I saw this movie with a couple of friends. One of us and I laughed through the rest of the movie, while the other two had facial expressions ranging from disgust to complete surprise(and not in a good way.)
The movie ends, the villain dies, Lucas squeezes in his crappy love story (the same one used in every movie of his), and the fedora is passed on to a new generation, wait, nevermind. Indy leaves the last scene with the fedora on his head, and credits roll.
The first thing that comes to all of our minds as we leave is "MY CHILDHOOD! RUINED!" and "LUCASSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"
Yes, I will most likely buy this movie on DVD, I will go see Indy 5, if it comes out, but I won't shell out 10 bucks to sit though the movie in a thearter again.