TxMike I find these Young Indiana Jones movies very interesting and entertaining. Like most everyone else my introduction to Indy was via Harrison Ford and "Raiders of the Lost Ark." So now, these prequels of sorts allow us to see how young Indy at 10, traveling the world because of his dad, and young adult Indy at 22, traveling the world on his own, already was developing the characteristics we see in the Harrison Ford movies.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.

cinefreakdude The adventures of young Indiana Jones is a fantastic, funny, and also educational series. I highly recommend this series to anyone, but you will like it best if you are a die hard Indyfan like myself. Corry Carrier, Sean Patrick Flannery, Ronny Coutteure, and George Hall all do a legendary job of acting! The best thing about The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is that over the coarse of 22 episodes it really clears up Indy past and gives you the inside story about the adventures, hardships, and romances Indy went through in his years as a kid, years in WW1, and college years. There are three volumes in the series. They are, The Early Years, The War Years, an The Years of Change. The Early Years is the funniest, and probably the most heartwarming, funny and enjoyable. The War Years has the most action and tragedy. For many of the episodes I was on the edge of my seat. The Years of change is the most diplomatic, it doesn't have as must action, though certain episodes such as Treasure of the Peacocks Eye, masks of Evil, and Mystery of the Blues do. The best episode in my opinion is Mystery of the Blues because it has a cameo with Harrison Ford. The whole episode is Indy having a flash back on a memory.

Alain English I remember the "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" only very vaguely. They consisted of being largely historical, fact-based dramas rather than the knockabout adventures of the movies with Indy meeting and learning from people such as Picasso, Tolstoy and Freud. It didn't interest many people, and consequently the series never quite reached completion and many stories were never filmed.The impending release of the fourth Indiana Jones movie has reignited interest in them, not least in their recent DVD releases. I checked them out in the "Star Wars" website which looked in-depth at the individual episodes as well as the documentaries produced to back them up. The series has been reorganized for DVD now, and the episode bookends, with an older Indiana Jones narrating each episode, have been removed and the stories are now told entirely in complete chronological order. I made it down to my local Blockbuster and rented out Volume One of what's now renamed "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones".Whilst it's probably unrealistic to think Indiana Jones met so many people who would later figure strongly in the history books, doing it this way makes for a richer and interesting background that for the most part does work as a drama. Occasionally it does get a bit too dull and talkative, but most of the time a thread of adventure is successfully weaved into the action.We begin looking at nine year-old Indiana Jones (Corey Carrier) as he accompanies his father Henry Jones Sr (Lloyd Owen) as he travels across the world on a lecture tour. Indy travels to Egypt, France, Russia, Greece and China among other places and later as an older teenager, played by Sean Patrick Flanery, he joins the Belgian Army and fights in World War One.Corey Carrier maintains interest well as a carefree, risk-taking Indy as he braves the Egyptian pyramids and Parisian backstreets with enthusiasm and spirit. He is well supported by Margaret Tyzack as his typically stern tutor Miss Seymour, as well as Lloyd Owen filling for Sean Connery as Indy's bookish, well-mannered dad. Sean Patrick Flanery picks up the thread later on, playing an older but no less adventurous Indy who falls in love and gets to take on the world. It should be no surprise that Flanery's adventures are more action-packed with considerably more interesting characters and relationships.Here are the best of the first few episodes of "Young Indiana Jones". If I manage to see further instalments, they will be reviewed separately: "My First Adventure": Young Indy climbs the Egyptian pyramids and gets involved in a murder mystery with Laurence of Arabia."The Perils of Cupid": Young Indy needs advice from Sigmund Freud when he visits Austria and develops a crush on a princess. There's a brilliant scene with Indy sneaking around a castle, climbing walls and evading guards, in order to reach his friend."Love's Sweet Song": Intending to join the Belgian Army, a teenage Indy crosses the Atlantic Ocean, stopping off in Dublin, Ireland where he gets involved in a local uprising and meets controversial Irish playwright Sean O'Casey.The series is definitely worth a second chance in the new DVD format. "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones" can bought or rented from local DVD stores in the UK.

Indyfan82 This was one of my favorite tv series and... oh wait, it STILL is!!! Indiana Jones, whether in the movies, or on TV, ROCKS!!! The tv show had Indiana Jones meeting real life history makers and was actually quite educational, which I enjoyed. Of course, episodes like The Treasure of the Peacock's Eye show Indy starting to get into what will become his future career - archeaology. The episodes showing him fighting in The Great War - later known as World War I, are really cool too and really paint an accurate as possible picture of what it really was like. It showed different events in Indy's life that shaped his values and ideas and made him into what he is now. Sean Patrick Flanery did a great job as Indiana Jones. The show rules!