Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Academy Award × 1·National Film Registry
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After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
What critics thought
Temple of Doom landed as a genuine split decision on release — darker, louder, and more relentless than Raiders, which thrilled some critics and repelled others. The divide was less about craft than tone: detractors found its gross-out gags and child-peril sequences gratuitously brutal, while defenders argued that shameless, non-stop momentum was precisely the point. Over time the film has found more admirers, though the original disagreements about whether its intensity is a feature or a flaw have never fully resolved.
“one of the greatest Bruised Forearm Movies ever made. You know what a Bruised Forearm Movie is. That's the kind of movie where your date is always grabbing your forearm in a vice-like grip, as unbearable excitement unfolds on the screen ... Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom makes no apologies for being exactly what it is: Exhilarating, manic, wildly imaginative escapism”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun”
Colin Covert·Star Tribune
“The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face”
Dave Kehr·Chicago Reader
“Raiders had the wit and lightness of touch not to take itself too seriously. Temple starts well, but promptly loses itself in clamorous self-importance”
Colin Greenland·Imagine
Genres
Action, Adventure
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven Spielberg
StarringHarrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth
ComposerJohn Williams
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Academy Award × 1·National Film Registry
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
What critics thought
Temple of Doom landed as a genuine split decision on release — darker, louder, and more relentless than Raiders, which thrilled some critics and repelled others. The divide was less about craft than tone: detractors found its gross-out gags and child-peril sequences gratuitously brutal, while defenders argued that shameless, non-stop momentum was precisely the point. Over time the film has found more admirers, though the original disagreements about whether its intensity is a feature or a flaw have never fully resolved.
“one of the greatest Bruised Forearm Movies ever made. You know what a Bruised Forearm Movie is. That's the kind of movie where your date is always grabbing your forearm in a vice-like grip, as unbearable excitement unfolds on the screen ... Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom makes no apologies for being exactly what it is: Exhilarating, manic, wildly imaginative escapism”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“sillier, darkly violent and a bit dumbed down, but still great fun”
Colin Covert·Star Tribune
“The film betrays no human impulse higher than that of a ten-year-old boy trying to gross out his baby sister by dangling a dead worm in her face”
Dave Kehr·Chicago Reader
“Raiders had the wit and lightness of touch not to take itself too seriously. Temple starts well, but promptly loses itself in clamorous self-importance”
Colin Greenland·Imagine
Genres
Action, Adventure
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven Spielberg
StarringHarrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth
ComposerJohn Williams
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