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ABOUT“Steven Spielberg creates an atmosphere of happy disbelief: the more breathtaking and exhilarating the stunts are the funnier they are. Nobody has ever fused thrills and laughter in quite the way that he does here.” — Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
SYNOPSIS
In her laudatory New Yorker review, film critic Pauline Kael suggested that director Steven Spielberg’s hotly debated follow-up to Raiders of the Lost Ark makes a case for momentum itself being the subject of a movie. Set in 1935, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom launches archaeologist-adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) from a chaotic Shanghai nightclub into a breathless chain of escalating dangers alongside nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and his pint-sized sidekick Short Round (Ke Huy Quan). Their journey leads to an impoverished Indian village whose sacred stone and missing children point toward a lavish palace concealing a subterranean temple where a sinister cult performs rituals in honor of the goddess Kali. What follows is a delirious cascade of traps, escapes, and set pieces staged with comic-strip exaggeration, pushing Spielberg’s pulp-adventure style to its most frenzied extreme. Its caricatured depictions of India and its shrill damsel-in-distress heroine have long drawn criticism, yet the film’s audacity, craft, and sheer velocity remain unmistakable. Loved by many and loathed by others, it endures as the most fiercely debated entry in the Indiana Jones saga, best experienced with a crowd and a big screen.
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