Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3668 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-01
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4

Amazon.co.uk Review
As with George Lucas's other movie franchise, there's a vein of mysticism running through the Indiana Jones Trilogy. Watching all three back-to-back it's possible to unravel the chronology and chart the spiritual journey of our hero: the idealistic Young Indy ("It belongs in a museum", implores River Phoenix in the opening escapade of The Last Crusade) grows up to become a cynical fortune-hunter seen trading archaeological treasures with Chinese gangsters at club "Obi-Wan" in The Temple of Doom. From there we follow his path to redemption via three mystical religious objects: respectively Hindu (the Shankara stones in Temple of Doom), Jewish (the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders), and Christian (the Holy Grail itself in Last Crusade).

But that's just the subtext. Along the way, this knight-errant archaeologist undertakes improbable adventures (featuring spiders, snakes, rats, insects and Nazis galore), rescues damsels in distress (even when they really don't want to be rescued, such as Kate Capshaw in Temple of Doom), and still finds time to bond with his dad (Sean Connery, in one of cinema's great cameo roles as Dr Jones Sr.)

Steven Spielberg revels in Lucas's recreation of 1930s cliff-hanger serials, infusing every scene with kinetic energy and infectious enthusiasm and creating any number of iconic sequences that have become touchstones of cinematic history. Director and producer are more than ably assisted by regular composer John Williams, whose swashbuckling Korngold-inspired Raiders theme casts Harrison Ford as a modern-day Errol Flynn. Although a fourth movie is promised, this trilogy plays like a self-contained whole that leaves nothing wanting: from the witty dialogue and breathtaking action choreography to the near-perfect casting, this is popular movie-making at its very peak. --Mark Walker

Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Action Movies
Don't bother with the new boxset release of the trilogy, this one is far superior and has better and more in-depth special features. The restoration done to these films is amazing, they all look like they were made yesterday. Raiders has aged superbly, better actually than Temple of Doom and Last Crusade which do have some rather dated looking effects in them. Raiders is easily the best, it just has a certain `something' that the other two lack, but they are still superb films in their own right. Temple of Doom is refreshingly different and has a much darker edge to it whereas Last Crusade tries abit to hard to emulate the style of Raiders rather than finding it's own, but it does win points for the casting of Sean Connery as Indy's Dad. With the imminent release of the fourth film in the saga, there's never been a better time to snap up these films. Unbeatable entertainment.

Best films ever!!!!!
I think the films alone are well worth the price coz I never bother looking at the special features. I bought this so I could watch the first 3 before the new 1 came out. BUY THIS NOW!

Great entertainment
The Indy trilogy is great fun and has stood the test of time well. Raiders of the Lost Ark hasn't aged at all and neither had The Last Crusade. The Temple of Doom has a few dodgy effects and is a tad corny in places but is still nevertheless very entertaining. It's worth revisting these films on DVD before the fourth installment comes out later this year.
Great fun.