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Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-davies
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 242
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Greek (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 126
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 132844
UPC: 097361328447
EAN: 0097361328447
ASIN: B0014C2FX8
Theatrical Release Date: May 24, 1989
Release Date: May 13, 2008 (New: This Week)
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INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE - SE (DVD MOVIE)
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 At Least It's Better than TEMPLE OF DOOM May 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I couldn't decide whether to give this movie a two star or a three star rating. It is infinitely better than 1984's dreary TEMPLE OF DOOM but still way, way behind 1981's awesome RAIDERS.
What I've never liked about the Indiana Jones sequels is the consistency of the main character. In RAIDERS, his character was perfect: a humble but passionate scholar in the classroom and a two-fisted, determined adventurer everywhere else. No hint of ego, only drive and even obsession about the next great find.
In TEMPLE OF DOOM, he's first seen in a Shanghai nightclub in a tux like he's James Bond. The rest of that movie is too much of a train wreck to even pay attention to him after that.
In THE LAST CRUSADE, he starts off well enough...but then there are silly scenes that take away from the movie's overall tension. The "Ah, Venice" lines took away from why Indy was in Venice in the first place: he smiles and says "Ah, Venice" upon arrival--as if completely forgetting that his father's been kidnapped--and then reads some silly lines before ending up on the floor with the Fraulien before ending the sequence with, "Ah, Venice." Nice device...in another movie. In LAST CRUSADE, it felt like Indy forgot just what he was in Venice for in the first place.
Then having Indy show up at the castle doing a really bad Scottish accent was just schtick and, again, drained a lot of tension. Look at how the humor in RAIDERS never took away from the overall momentum and tightening of the tension in the story and you'll see what I mean.
The action sequences were also a far cry from the first film. The Nazi fighter plane zipped around like an X-wing from a STAR WARS movie. The big tank sequence didn't have any of the unpredictability and energy of the main chase in RAIDERS (didn't it look obviously staged that Indy is dragging along a completely straight wall alongside the tank, coming close to a suspiciously squared block at the end of it?). Both of the sequels appeared to have too many special effects and not enough spontaneity in their action set pieces.
I was also disappointed that they chose to play Marcus Brody as a bumbling oaf and Sallah became more of an Arab caricature than ever.
But I won't be completely negative. Some of it worked. Sean Connery was great as Dr. Henry Jones Sr. and his scenes with Harrison Ford made the movie. The Holy Grail was a much weaker storyline than the Ark of the Covenant but it was still so much better than the glowing rocks from TEMPLE OF DOOM.
Yes, these movies are about having fun--but they're much funner when the characters DON'T look like they're having fun too.
I still gotta go with RAIDERS as the only great Indiana Jones movie. I hope this new one coming out next week is good!
 The Best on a Special Edition DVD! May 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am so excited that "Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade" is coming out on a Special Edition DVD! It is my favorite movie out of the entire collection...well, I will have to see how "Kingdom of the Crystal Scull" rates on that list. Harrison Ford is probably the main reason these movies are as good as they are. Can you see anyone else playing Indy and cracking a bullwhip?
THE LAST CRUSADE finds Indiana Jones as a teenager living with his father a feisty archeologist(Sean Connery) who is obsessed with finding and studying The Holy Grail. As the years pass by, their relationship starts to strain. But when the two of them end up in Europe after some clues about the location of The Holy Grail, their bond strengthens as they narrowly escape being caught by Nazis and eaten alive by rats.
This is a great action movie that you won't get tired of watching!
 Last Crusade, Last in Grade May 9, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Last Crusade is the least favorite of mine in the Indy series. However, it's in great company and still a fun edition to anybody's collection. And in terms of George Lucas "grabbing people's money", it's the distributor who decides when and how they will release and re-release a film. George is not the distributor. When the VHS versions of Star Wars were released in 2001, fans kept complaining that they wanted it on DVD. George didn't want to release them on DVD until after the prequels had finished because of the recent VHS release. The distributor, however, decided to give the fans what they wanted, and just two years later, they released the trilogy on DVD. Fans were now outraged that the original versions of the film weren't available. Therefore, the distributor decided to re-release the trilogy again, this time with the original version. Fans complained again because they had just bought the trilogy on DVD. Well, George has very little authority on distributing DVD releases and the distributor was only reacting to the feedback from the fans. Get a grip people. George is not desperate for money, he already has as much as anybody could dream of.
 Hi,I'm George and want your money March 11, 2008
5 out of 40 found this review helpful
The Indiana Jones Trilogy is a landmark in movie entertainment.Years ago fans around the world bought the first installment of all DVDs in a box set and where pleased.Now the fourth film is ready for release and HAPPY GEORGE tries again to enlarge wealth.The new discs will arrive in more or less additon of strange specials,which doesn't justify the price.It is your choice to buy these films but i would suggest to prove the difference between the old and this new edition.
And then you can see how this new edition sucks.
But once again my name is George.....
New Last Crusade Special Collector's Edition due out May 13th, 2008! March 8, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
The details of new DVD editions of the three classic classic Indiana Jones movies with all-new special features have been announced. They'll be available separately for the first time on DVD, or as a set. They were previously only available on DVD as a set.
The new releases will coincide with the new movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which comes out on May 22nd. They'll have new special features designed to introduce new Indy fans to the old movies, as well as to introduce old fans to the new movie.
The Indiana Jones movies are George Lucas's recreation/update of the serialized adventures of the 1930s and '40s. Made in the '80s and set in the '30s, they feature Harrison Ford as a mild-mannered archeology professor who moonlights as an adventurous seeker of priceless antiquities. This takes him to exotic locations across the world, and gets him in some very tight spots of the kind that only a movie hero could get into, or out of. He invariably finds himself opposed by dangerous men with evil plans for the powerful objects only he has the skills to recover. There are elaborate set pieces with creepy critters, ancient traps, fights with weapons from bare hands to airplanes and tanks, and sometimes supernatural forces. Along the way Jones manages to have some romance too. Humor is a big part of the fun.
This is the third in the series, after Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It begins with a teenaged Indy trying unsuccessfully to save an artifact from thieves, during which we get background on his signature fedora, bull whip, fear of snakes and his father. Then we jump to 1938, when Indy learns his father, played by Sean Connery, has gone missing while searching for the Holy Grail, which the Nazis have designs on for world domination. Joining with a somewhat dim museum owner and the beautiful woman Indy's father had been working with, Indy has close calls in Venice, Austria, and Turkey as he closes in on the Grail and, in the end, bonds with dad.
This one returns to the lighter tone of Raiders, after the somewhat darker Temple of Doom, and perhaps exceeds Raiders in its emphasis on humor (though I still find Raiders funnier). It's fun to see Ford and Connery working together. As always there are very involved set pieces, including a tank battle, an intricate plot full of mystery and action, and some magic. And critters: this time thousands of rats.
If you don't want the whole set and don't want to wait until May, you could get a used copy of the old Last Crusade DVD (people sell them out of the sets). The difference is in the extra features. The bonuses from the old set are on their own disc, so what you get when you buy just the old Last Crusade DVD is pretty bare. The new release, on the other hand, has the following, all new:
-- "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: An Introduction" by director Steven Spielberg and creator/producer George Lucas
-- "The Women: The American Film Institute Tribute," in which the three Indiana Jones women (Karen Allen, Kate Capshaw and Alison Doody) reunite for a discussion
-- "Friends and Enemies," in which Spielberg, Lucas and Indiana Jones writers discuss how they created the original characters, and a look at new faces in the new movie
-- storyboards: the opening sequence
-- DVD galleries of illustrations, props, production stills and portraits, FX/Industrial Light and Magic stuff, and promotion/marketing materials
-- "Lego Indiana Jones," a demo and trailer for a game based on the trilogy
If you like a few extras, you'll probably prefer this new DVD, though maybe not enough to upgrade from the old one, or to wait until May. I like audio commentaries, myself, and since they're easy to produce and tend to bring out points not covered in other features, I subtract one star for a special edition without any, but I look forward to the rest. If you don't care about commentaries, this may be a five-star DVD for you.
There have been rumors of deleted scenes, but none are included.
Some will want to wait for a high-def release, which makes sense if you have the equipment or plan to get it. Many speculate that a Blu-ray release will come out for Christmas, but that's sheer guesswork.
There's also some speculation that an even better edition with all four movies will soon supersede this new DVD. They may bundle the four together, but I doubt that there will be a better edition of this movie soon, if ever, on standard DVD. Keep in mind that the previous set came out over four years ago, and if not for the new movie, that would probably be the only release during the decade of standard DVD. The next upgrade may be high-def only, and may not happen for a while.
If you do want the whole trilogy (highly recommended), the new release is here, the old set is here. If you want to pick up one of the others from the new set, the new edition of Raiders of the Lost Ark is here, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom here.
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