One thing that can be said about ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ is exactly Ford’s line from the movie: “Same old same old.” And if this is usually a bad thing about a film, the rule does not apply to this one.

The Indiana Jones saga is too much of a legend to allow people, even if they are its creators, to experiment. It is perfect just the way it is. Indy is basically one of the very few characters that can dodge bullets and escape from impossible situations without making any viewer say “Yeah, right…Like I’m supposed to believe it.”

Yes, scenes are not shot so beautifully like in ‘Schindler’s List,’ but this is exactly what makes people love the films. It is just a story, and the director and the whole staff do not want to make you think anything else.

It is most probable that both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had similar thoughts because they have managed to give the movie the series’ ’80s look. It seems that CGI was almost never used and Harrison Ford, though aged 65, has performed his own stunts just like in the good old days. Spielberg has even made the film’s director of photography, Janusz Kaminski, study the technique the cinematographer of the other movies in the saga, the now retired Douglas Slocombe, used.

But the big issue remains whether Indy will manage to get kids to come watch it, or will it be seen by older cinemagoers mostly. During the last years, kids have been the ones to decide a movie’s box-office success in its first days of screening. This is why the producers have led a strong marketing campaign focused on children, which consisted both in movie trailers on kids’ television, and actor appearances at kid shows.

If ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ will manage to both bring the kinds to watch it, and make them love it, the movie’s success will be complete: the producers will make a lot of money, and a new generation of Indy fans will emerge.