- Why kill off Henry Jones Snr? I can understand killing off Marcus Brody - it's hard to maintain an iconic character when the actor is dead (Denholm Elliot died in 1992) - but "the King of Scotland" aka Sean Connery is still alive. He might have added some gravitas to the proceedings. (Wikipedia says that Connery turned down the chance, saying he was enjoying his retirement too much. I wonder if it was the script. It would have been great if he'd walked in on the last scene, towing some piece of treasure with him.)
- What nationality was Alan Dale's character? He was probably meant to be an American Army General, but a) I couldn't see the US flashes on his shoulders, and b) his accent was appalling that that was the reason I looked. He didn't quite sound his native Australian, but he certainly didn't sound like any American I've ever heard.
- Whoever thought up the comb fetish for Shia LaBeouf deserves to be shot. Throughout the first half of the movie, he combs and re-combs his hair in a "look at me, I'm cool like Fonzi" action, at the most inopportune times. It is really irritating. And irrelevant. He looked far better once he'd been doused in water.
- Kate Blanchett's Russian accent is just not convincing. It almost works but then she says something with a long "ay" sound (as in "say") and the way she says it sounds totally wrong.
- What is it with the gophers? And the monkeys?
- Anyone who has seen The Mummy will remember the scarab beetle scene. So why repeat it twice with the big ants? Definite overkill. On the other hand, it had the desired effect of making me want to curl into a ball and hide from creepy crawlies.
- Pam
