The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones – Volume 1

Reviewer: Jordan Brown
Issue 101 March 2008

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He no nuts, he’s crazy!

The Lowdown: A bright-eyed and inquisitive lad, young Indiana Jones spends his childhood exploring the world, rubbing shoulders with some of history’s most important figures and getting into the odd scrape. After all, it takes a bit of work to become the world’s most beloved whip-cracking, relic-hunting explorer.

Review: With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of the Crystal Skull due out this year, it’s hardly a coincidence that George Lucas has finally released the early exploits of the archaeologist adventurer on DVD. However, if you’re expecting the first season of Indy’s early adventures, you’ll be in for a surprise.

Upon first airing, the series’ timeline was all over the shop. With Indy as a headstrong teen in one episode and a pre-pubescent kid in the next, it was a tad confusing to say the least. Luckily the problem has been sorted for the DVD release as Lucas has put the episodes in chronological order and tacked them together into feature-length TV movies.

While this sounds like a top idea, unfortunately it means that the gist of this first set is from the viewpoint of an eight-year-old boy. While utterly entertaining and informative to boot, it means that, until you get to the episodes featuring the adolescent Jones, there’s little action to be found. It means that fans of the rough and ready Indy that we all know and love may be a little disappointed.

Still, the focus here is on having fun while learning and in that respect, the mammoth 12-disc box set delivers in droves. With a heap of historical featurettes for each film and the likes of Liz Hurley and Max Von Sydow showing up to help tutor the young explorer, education has never been this much fun.

FILM: 8 EXTRAS: 8

DVD Info:
Certificate: 12
Release Date: February 25th
Starring: Corey Carrier, Sean Patrick Flannery, George Hall, Lloyd Owen, Max Von Sydow, Elizabeth Hurley
Directed By: Various, 1992-1996
Distributor: Paramount
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Visuals: 4:3 Fullscreen
Running Time: 649 mins
Price:            £44.99
Film supplied by:  Shine Communications

Special Features:
Historical Series Overview
39 Historical Featurettes
Interactive Game
Interactive Timeline

 

 

One Review of “The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones – Volume 1”

  1. robinparker Says:
    May 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    I never really paid much attention to this when it was on TV, but with the upcoming release of Indy IV it might be time to give it another look

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