Strictly average movie

Purely Joyful Movie!

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Sean Patrick Flanery is really good as the young adult Indy. In this 90- minute movie he and his pal Remy are traveling to Ireland, working their way on a ship. Their ultimate goal is London, they intend to sign up with the Belgian army to fight in France, but they need to stay in Ireland long enough to work and earn money for the remainder of the trip. Ronny Coutteure, a native of Belgium, is Remy Baudouin and together they make a fine team.In Ireland Indy's eye is turned by a pretty young lass who thinks he is an American millionaire. He doesn't correct that misconception and in his infatuation he ends up spending much of his extra earnings on the girl and her friend, who are not at all bashful about asking him to buy them things. Remy has a conversation with him and Indy realizes it is just an infatuation, and when they leave for London he doesn't even look back.In London he and Remy sign up at the Belgian recruiting station there, and have a few days before getting their orders. Quite accidentally he meets up with an equally young (both about 26) Elizabeth Hurley as Vicky Prentiss, active with the suffragettes trying to get equal pay for equal work for women. Indy brings her to Cambridge for a day, to meet his old tutor, and there they encounter Winston Churchill over dinner. Vicky and Indy really do fall in love but she rejects his marriage request, she wanted a career as a writer and knew getting married would not be best for either of them. Indy is distraught, but he sees her at the train station as he ships off with the other Belgian recruits, and they smile at each other. The most amusing scene was over dinner, just the two of them, Vicky would say something to Indy in a foreign language, and he would respond, fluently, in that same foreign language. French, Greek, Italian, Arabic, Swedish ... until one which he didn't recognize. Asking what language that was she replied, "Welsh." She was surprised he didn't know that one, as Jones is a Welsh name (think the singer, Tom Jones.)Saw it on DVD from my public library.

Indiana Jones (Sean Patrick Flannery) and his companion Remy (Ronny Coutteure) escape from Mexico and travel to Ireland where they are caught up the Easter Revolution, and then to London where Indy meets Miss Seymour (Margaret Tyzack) for the last time...The Ireland part of the story is very well done and features some well-shot Irish scenery, and the passion and ferocity of the Easter Revolution with it's inflamed religious bigotry is also well-told. Foregoing Indy's disposable romance with an Irish girl, it also features a terrific performance from John Lynch as a young Sean O'Casey.The London part is interesting not just for tying up the loose ends with Indy's mentor, but also seeing Elizabeth Hurley making a good stab at playing his girlfriend. Julian Fellowes also makes a strong impression as Winston Churchill.The ending, with Indy and Remy leaving for France will have you begging for more.

What is it with Indy and only kissing the girls he likes? Bond would have them naked in a heartbeat.After escaping Mexico with Remy in tow Indy travels to Ireland and ends up in the middle of a catholic/protestant stand-off. It interesting to get an early 19th century perspective on this conflict but most of it takes a backseat to Indy's pointless romance with a boring girl who mistakes him for a millionaire and wants to go shopping all the time. I would demand sex in return for this but Indy just lets them use him. If there were nothing in it for me I'd show her the door. Luckily she's gone by the second half.After that Indy and Remy go to London to sign up for the Belgian Army and he meets the feisty Victoria Prentiss (Elizabeth Hurley, when she was an actress and not a...whatever she is now), a suffragette bus conductor who clashes with his old tutor Miss Seymour. The romance doesn't last (or get as far as the bedroom) however as Indy is soon whisked off to the front lines when he is called for duty.Not exactly packed with adventure but still worth a watch.

Capter seven in the continuing adventures of young Indiana Jones features the first regular episode, "London, May 1916". One of the most memorable installments, it featuring Indy's first real love, Vicky (played by the then still quite unknown Elizabeth Hurley). When the series was first broadcast, it was made clear that this was Indiana's one true romance. True, there were two other episodes in which Indy encountered love shot for series one (thought inconveniently these were shown in the U.S. as part of series two). But in one of those he was only 9 year old and the second saw him losing his virginity to Mata Hari. But even so, during the Mata Hari Affair mentioned that he did not have the same kind of feelings for the older Mata as he had had for Vicky. Unfortunately, this sentiment was thrown out the window during production of the second series when the scripts on the whole became less dramatic and, taking a page from the cinematic Indiana, Jones began to fall in love in just about every single episode. When "London, May 1916" became part of this feature length adventure, it was partnered with "Ireland, April 1916", in which Indy indeed is dating an Irish belle, Maggie (Susannah Doyle). Although this takes away a little bit of the weight of the original love story, Vicky's tale has lost none of it's power and at least the writers were smart enough not to screw up the continuity by having Indy fall head over heels with another woman before meeting her.We start off with a brand new sequence aboard a luxury steamer heading from Mexico to Ireland. After some stock shots that resemble the opening footage from 'The Love Boat', we learn Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin had tried to hitch a ride as stowaways but were captured on the first night out and put to work cleaning the engine room. As in most of the new wide shots in these bridge sequences, the composite shots of the ship look really fake. The people leaving the ship are translucent! Sean Patrick Flanery's hair is also noticeably longer and blonder in the new scene. It's suddenly shorter when we see him waiting tables and twirling bottles like Tom Cruise at the start of the Ireland episode. Indy and Remy have taken jobs at a café to earn enough money for the ferry to England. Before they manage to do this, Indy meets opinionated playwright Sean O'Casey, witnesses the Easter Monday revolt first hand and spends most of his hard earned money on Maggie and her girlfriend Nuala, who think he's an American Millionaire. It seems writer Jonathan Hales tried to put a bit too much of everything into one script, ending up with a rather uneven story. In the original coda, Old Indy even added the fact that Maggie's brother, the hot headed Sean Lemass, later became prime minister of Ireland! As mentioned before, the second series was much more comedic than the first. Unfortunately, as Remy, Belgian actor Ronny Coutteure wasn't really all that funny. He just complained and whined a lot. Oh, I forgot that's the kind of humor George Lucas really enjoys.After the revolt and a scene in the famous prison from the original Italian Job, Indy and Remy get on the boat for another quick new bridge scene. Notice they failed to come up with an excuse for Remy to shave off his curly mustache before arriving in London. His 'stache is a continuity error that will pop up on his nose only to disappear again in many more adventures to come. 16 year old Indy is still hitting on every girl he sees (even though another second season episode revealed he had a girlfriend back home in Princeton). Encouraged by Remy, Indy tries his luck sweet talking a posh war widow (Shelagh McLeod) while failing to be impressed by a quick witted female bus conductor until she saves his life during a zeppelin air raid. The bus conductor is of course Vicky Prentiss, who, though skeptical of the young American at first, soon turns out to have a lot of common with Indy. He follows her to a suffragette meeting, where the main subject of this story is revealed: women were still deprived of equal rights during the first world war. Vicky's outspoken views on this subject make her beloved by Sylvia Parkhurst, but less so by Winston Churchill (it wouldn't be a real Young Indy episode without some prominent historical figures now would it). Indy takes her to meet his former tutor, Miss Seymour and for some reason, in her last chronological appearance, Margaret Tyzack's credit got lost in the shuffle. But as the time nears form him to join the Belgian Army he and Remy have just joined, their young love must come to a bittersweet end. During their last fateful dinner scene, you can just about spot the fake Harrison Ford scar on Sean Patrick's chin. Vanessa Redgrave guest stars as Vicky's mother and in the original broadcast version, Jane Wyatt made a brief appearance as older Vicky, reunited with 94 year old Indy at last at the very end of the episode. It's a shame they couldn't keep that lovely scene (even if it was a bit contrived). Now all that is left of George Hall's performance are his old hands closing the diary at the end of each Indy film.9 out of 10