Like RETURN OF THE JEDI it plays like a watered-down yet bigger budget version of the first film. More family conscious, overtly so. None of the gross out stuff from the previous two films, no gore f/x, no grit. The female lead is forgettable. Too much winking at the audience. Too many one-liners. I could do without the young Indy prelude but I really dig the brief 2nd prelude it ties into on the boat in the storm.

While the film has a less comicbooky tone than TEMPLE the characters themselves are unfortunately more caricatured.