Hollywood moguls still keeping up with the Jones Spielberg, Lucas nurture inner children with an over-the-top fantasy INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Starring: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent, John Hurt and Karen Allen Directed by: Steven Spielberg PG (violence, coarse language, may frighten young children) Running time: 123 minutes BY KATHERINE MONK It's been close to 20 years, but the core of the Indiana Jones franchise remains well-preserved in a sticky cocoon of candy floss and coloured sugar thanks to the talents of proven cinematic confectioners Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Both boy-men may be graying, but there's no doubt the two Hollywood moguls have been nurturing their inner children with over-the-top fantasies about an action-loving archeologist who stumbles across the lingering mysteries of civilization. It's all there on the screen in gorgeously exaggerated colour and eye-popping production design in the fourth Indiana Jones saga, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. From the moment the movie kicks into gear with Elvis Presley's Hound Dog playing over a friendly race between a car full of Bobby soxers and a U.S. military vehicle, we know both creative forces have already planted their tongue-in-cheek with a joint tip of the hat to their respective earlier work, American Graffiti and Duel. By the time we realize we're back at the government warehouse where the ark of the covenant was deposited at the end of the first film, we're reunited with our leading man: Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). See NAZIS ARE C4
