To whet your appetite for the long-awaited return of our favorite bullwhip-cracking archaeologist/adventurer, Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing new special-edition DVDs of the first three Indiana Jones movies on May 13. Not only will you be able to pick up Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade individually for the first time (they also come bundled together in shelve-saving skinny cases), but each remastered adventure contains new special features and hints about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which opens on May 23.
Our favorite extras include “Indiana Jones: An Appreciation,” in which the cast and crew of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull pay tribute to the original trilogy; “The Melting Face,” which includes a re-creation of the Nazi’s melting face in Raiders of the Lost Ark that freaked you out when you were a kid; “The Women: The American Film Institute Tribute,” in which the actresses who played Indy’s women (Karen Allen, Kate Capeshaw and Alison Doody) reunite for a discussion; and “Friends and Enemies” with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas talking about how they created this iconic character and the new ones in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. If you already have the 2003 box set of all the movies, this well-timed double dip probably won’t tempt you unless you frequently don a fedora yourself and hunt for priceless historical artifacts, or you’re just a completist. If you’re the latter, this is still the Holy Grail of Indiana Jones collections—at least until the Blu-ray version is excavated at some as-yet-undetermined future date.
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