I can understand some people being less than enthused, but what UTTERLY perplexes me is the people that HATE it, like personally harbor hatred towards it, when they liked the sequels. I mean, the people that say "Raiders is a classic, but with Temple of Doom it just went off the deep end, and Crusade was too funny and budd-buddy and it was the same movie as Raiders but done poorly"--I can understand those people, even if, in spite of these criticism, I can say "yeah, but the films are still entertaining!" Because Crystal Skull is just more of the same. It really is. I think it has more flaws than either of the two sequels, but there are tons of people that thought Temple of Doom was mediocre at best as well, and Crystal Skull is pretty consistent with what was established in the previous two entries (in fact, its sort of a weird amalgum of the two if you think about it).