Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls (SPOILER HEAVY)

Hey, Just a warning, there will be a loooot of spoilers, considering how this is what got me to make this blog in the first place.

Alright, so, it opens with the amazing Elvis and his Hound Dog song, as the camera pans across the desert. Teens speeding along carefree in a car. Amazing. It’s how I always pictured the 50’s. They drive up to a bunch of army cars and race them down the highway, until the army cars turn off down a stray road and right up to, you guessed it, Area 51. Turns out, these guys are Reds and have infiltrated parts of the government to gain access to certain areas. They kill the guys guarding the entrance and drive to a large warehouse. In their trunk the whole time was Jones and his friend Mac. Here we meet Kate Blancett’s character. And omg she’s amazing. Alright…well, at this rate, I’m going to over kill this page SOOOO, Jones unwillingly helps them find a crate from the Roswell crash, which contains a mummified body and Mac turns on him, cause the Red’s pay better. Indy escapes them, then an atomic blast, and gets fired from his teaching job. He gets on a train to go to New York when he is stopped by Mutt, who was sent to him by his mother, Mary. Mary knows a friend of Jones’s and they’ve both been kidnapped. Here the skulls are introduced. Blahblahblah, they go to Peru and find the skull, they get captured by Reds, and Indy is forced to succumb to the power of the skull. Here they run into Mutt’s mom, whom is none other than Marion Ravenwood. YAY! Hehe, yep, and she reveals later that, *gasp* Indy is the father!? Oh yes. Mutt is really Henry Jones the Third. From there they fight for the skull and make it to El Dorado where they find a room full of alien skeletons and the Russians catch up and return the head and are abducted and destroyed and the aliens fly away and Indy and Marion get married.

What I liked:

1. The whole 50’s air was perfect. The music and the greasers and the styles. It was so great.
2. Indy’s spirit wasn’t weakened by his age. He fought like he was 30 again.
3. All of the characters were perfectly written.
4. Indy had a kid!!!!
5. And he finally settles down and marries Marion.
6. The sound effects were great. They had all of the POW and WHAM that the others had.
7. The visual effects were absolutely astounding!
8. The music was spectacular.
9. The hat saving. Oh yes.

What I DIDN’T like:

1. The aliens. Ok, just….wtf? I wanted the skulls to be like..the glasses in transformers. With secrets embedded inside and all…it just kinda killed it for me when a space ship flew outta the ground.
2. Random things like the ground hogs and the monkeys that just appeared and made faces at the characters.
3. Marcus Brody’s beheaded statue. D; I almost cried.

So, I got most of what I wanted. And I know many people were happy with the ending. I feel that most people didn’t really get it though. It’s still my Indy though. It’s just another adventure.