The third installment of the Indiana Jones franchise is perhaps the most self conscious and hence the best of the series. The film remains faithful to the spirit and iconography of the two previous outings though the adventure only becomes bigger, grander and funnier in every sense.

The very first sequence introduces a teenage Indiana on a trip where he stumbles upon a gang of grave robbers. The unfolding of the whole world of adventure, treasure hunt and grand landscapes is thus made possible through the eyes of a boy and it is precisely at this moment that the film succeeds in finding its root in the comic strip imaginations and the world of such 13 year olds. The rest of the plot deals with the Indiana’s quest for Holy Grail across a Nazi occupied Europe accompanied by his Grail crazy Historian father, Prof. Henry Jones.

One of the key items in the film is certainly the father son relationship delightfully manifested on screen by the unmatched chemistry between Harrison Ford and Sean Connery. The effort to put the now familiar characters into a perspective by filling in about their pasts is another toast for the lovers of the series. Finally, the film is all about FUN. Spielberg decides to have some by things like the Hitler sequence, Venice catacombs, the actors especially Connery seems to have the time of his life and the audience seems to lap up the chaos that explodes on the screen.