But I have to say this is the first Indy to truly jump the shark. The gophers, the monkeys, the flying fridge, the waterfalls, the stilted unconvincing action sequences. Even my better half who knows nothing about filmmaking technique thought things looked "wrong".
I believe Indy IV was mediocre (in the dictionary definition). They may have pushed the envelope in post production but they sure didn't show me anything new in front of the camera.
And where was the James Bond-esque pre-title sequence? I didn't think the hot-rodding was that bad, but it was hardly "Indy escapes from giant boulder" or "Indy gets poisoned" or "Indy running along a train" --- it was Russians have a race and pull Indy out the boot of a car. Boring!
What happened to peril on every page? This movie was lazy lazy lazy. But of course it will be successful because there is a huge market for nostalgia. We buy it every time!