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| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-davies
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $12.28
You Save: $17.71 (59%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $9.54
Avg. Customer Rating:  (126 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1366
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Greek (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 127 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD132844D
UPC: 097361328447
EAN: 0097361328447
ASIN: B0014C2FX8
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 1989
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 another best of the best May 24, 2008
Incredible movie considering it's a sequel. I keeps you captivated from start to finish. Another one of the best adventure films made. I still returned it after learning it is in a 2.35 aspect ratio.I still don't get why these are not made for 16x9 wide screen TV's. So people be aware, "enhanced for wide screen TVs" does not mean you get to watch a full picture on your wide screen TVs. I'm still watching my laser disk version and won't give it up untill a "made for 16x9 TVs" version comes out in a 1.78 aspect ratio, a version to produce a full screen on a wide screen TV.
 At Least It's Better than TEMPLE OF DOOM May 13, 2008
2 out of 3 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 4 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 9 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
6 out of 42 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.....
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