Review of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure (1999) by Zac G — 08 Mar 2009

This episode always makes me smile. Yet again two totally different episodes edited together, here it sorta works as one represents Indy before he left school, the other, well the other is pretty crazy.

The first episode, Princeton 1916 is our sole oppurtunity to see Indy in High school, and what a geeky Indy he is. Far from the soldier and spy he becomes in later episodes, here Indy works as a soda jerk, reads Tom Swift, and cares only about what car he'll be driving to the prom. Its all very entertaining in its goofiness. Indy gets involved in what amounts to a Nancy Drew mystery with his girlfriend Nancy, meeting Thomas Edison along the way. Its fun, pure and simple enjoyable stuff. The second part is also the companion piece to what is now 'My First Adventure', and therefore wraps up many of the plot strands set in motion there, for once the linking segment isn't so bad and its not long before Indy is in Mexico and fighting alongside Pancho Villa. Indy's goofiness continues in what is a very admirable episode, particualrly a segment in the Hacienda of William Randolph hearst where Indy and his Mexican (and Belgium) friends watch news reel footage about the war. Its intelligent television, moving and effective at times, and the central performance by Sean Flanery holds it all together. Great Stuff.