I recently rented Crystal Skull, since my son's been on an Indiana Jones kick lately. I only saw it once when it came out, and I was able to enjoy it on some level, in spite of some really bad parts. My son liked it quite a bit.

THE GOOD: Cate Blanchett is always a treat in my book. The Russians are a worthy adversary, and the crystal skull is a great macguffin. The return of Marion was a good way to tie into the earlier movies, and they have some good repartee between them. The chase in the jungle between the boat-jeep things and trucks had some good action and was pretty well paced.

THE BAD (as if I need to repeat what many others have said before): Ford was too old, and so many of the fight scenes border on unbelievable. The ridiculousness of the fridge cannot be underestimated (are there fan edits that remove this?)

For me, the series took a turn for the worse with Crusade, which had too much of the inappropriate light-hearted humor that Lucas has become known for.