It’s Memorial Day weekend and the Multiplex Overthruster crew roars back to the movies for the Summer of ’84 with their old pal Indiana Jones! On his second outing, Indy stares down the many perils of the Temple of Doom… only it’s more like the “Temple of Holy Crap This Movie is Terrifying!” Look, over the years, Javi has followed Paul and the archaeological Producer Brad on many adventures, but into the Great Unknown Mystery… oh the hell with it, the Great Unknown Mystery here is how did all of the goodness of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” metastasize into this haltingly entertaining but mostly really weird and uncharacteristically dark story of child torture, monkey brains, a lava pit of wildly varying temperature, bloodless but nevertheless childhood-scarring heart ripping, and eyeball soup. It’s Indiana Jones as you have never seen him before… in an immaculate white dinner jacket, then strikingly shirtless and, uh, hypnotized into slapping his nine-year-old sidekick? Could Paul be right in his theory that the true hero of this film is Short Round and that we were robbed of an entire saga of Short Round Adventures? (Spoilers, he is right.) So dim your glowing stones, chill your monkey brains, and take a nice warm seat near the lava pit, because the Summer of ’84 is about to begin - in the bowels of The Temple of Doom!

Show Notes:

US Theatrical Release Date: May 23, 1984

Weekend Domestic Box Office May 25, 1984

Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom Box Office

AFI Catalog Entry

'INDIANA JONES' STIRS RATINGS DEBATE - The New York Times

How ‘The Temple of Doom’ Changed the MPAA Ratings System

Corliss, RIchard. (1984, May 21). Keeping the Customer Satisfied. Time

Theme music by Mike McGuill

Additional voicework by Russell Bentley

Summer of '84 voiced by Colby Elliott

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