ARTS * The Michigan Daily Page 9 Indy 3 goes through motions BY MARK SHAIMAN AND JOHN SHEA Producer George Lucas, in keeping with the maxim that all good things come in threes, has said in interviews that the third installment of the 4 Indiana Jones series will be the last.a In truth, it's the first.- Indiana Jones and the Last Cru- sade is more a remake of Raiders than a sequel. Screenwriter Jeffrey Boam seems to lift several sequences from Lawrence Kasdan's storyboard and placed them directly on his own.' " Did you like the Nazis in the first movie? The desert chase scenes? The. beautiful women and doting youngt1 girls in Jones' archeology class? The breathless pursuit of a priceless rei- . gious artifact? Good. Because they're« all here, again, for a second time. As; if to avoid charges of plagarism, Boam replaces snakes with rats, the Ark of the Covenant with the Holy Grail, and a beautiful brunette with a beautiful blonde (Alison Doody). The only significant difference between the two films (and the only real justification for making the lat- ter) is the introduction of Sean Connery as Indiana Jones' father. As Although Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade joins our hero (Harrison a stuffy, bookworm-ish professor Ford) with his father, Dr. Henry Jones (Sean Connery), the series's whose lifelong search for the grail thrid installment pays more attention to its cinematic forebearer. nas been conducted from Utah, the elder Jones is the antithesis of his son. While Junior fights off those damn Nazis, Dad worries about the safety of his umbrella. Aside from that, Last Crusade pretty routinely parallels its fore- bearer. The opening chase scene in Last Crusade pales in comparison io the wie in Raiders. Its comic- book action, punctuated by cheap laughs, sets the tone for the rest of movie. We see, for the first time, Indy as a young child (played by River Phoenix). In watching his first attempt to save a precious relic from The Annual Michiganensian P[ the hands of evil, we learn how he developed his fear of snakes, love of7 whips, that manly scar on his chin,r and his trademark fedora. The effect is. much like seeing how Billy Batson learned to become Captain Marvel by' saying "Shazaam!" It's cute, but hardly exciting. b The real excitement doesn't starty See Indy, p. 10 t Iiw. EUROPE BY CAR One Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10020 Phone 212) 581-3040 Mail this ad for Special Student/Teacher Taritf. 0 RENTAL 7 LEASE I PURCHASE , aahoot Blues Riffs uncorks night to remember BY MARISA ANAYA AND MICHAEL PAUL FISCHER ON this visit to Ann Arbor's intimate Performance Network, it will seem that you're entering a strange "bar" indeed. You'll sit off in the inclined gallery overlooking it all as the locals saunter in to yuk it up and take turns at some electric blues on the rock-and-roll platform. 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