Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - in which Indiana Jones has a short, Asian sidekick who helps him save the children of a small Indian village. First of all, Indiana has his sidekick, Short Round, waiting outside in his getaway car, while he is inside Club Obiwan (we get it, Lucas) trying to get a rare diamond from some Chinese bad guys, and he accidentally takes a blonde singer hostage, but then she kind of helps him get the antidote for the poison, she's really very nice. Willie, is her name. Okay, so they escape onto a plane and it crashes in the middle of no where in India, and the first town the trio comes to is under a curse because some guy stole their magic stone and subsequently, all their children. The old village magic man asks them to go get the kids from the temple. Indiana, Willie and Short Round have no other way to get to Delhi, so they go to the local Mah Ha rajah's palace and temple compound to investigate the disappearance of the children.
So, once
they're there, Indy & Co get invited into the palace because they're
white and India is under Colonial rule, and they're given rooms and
gross food that is basically inedible, so when Indy shows up outside
Willie's room with an apple, she lets him in, and simultaneously tries
to seduce him and be seduced. It doesn't go great, but then Indy finds a
secret passage way into a dark, insect covered corner of hell filled
with booby traps and insanity. So, he and Short Round get trapped in a
shrinking room with spikes and Willie heroically saves them even though
she has to touch a hundred stick bugs and mega-millipedes and jurassic
beetles. Well, they make their way through to the temple inside the
palace and find Molaram tearing hearts out on the regular with a crowd
that really knows how to chant. Oh, the magic stones are there, on the
altar. They also have confirmation of the mass child enslavement when
they get captured and Shorty is enslaved and Indy is hypnotized with a
blood cocktail.
Next day,
Willie is about to be sacrificed to the hellpit and Indy is helping
until Short Round (seriously, he has no real name) burns him and frees
him from the trance. Molaram still has a bunch of strong guys and the
pre-pubescent Mah ha Raja under his spell, so it takes a long time and a
mine cart ride to escape the temple and the palace. There is a rickety
and exciting rope bridge to cross, but Indiana and his sidekick save
Willie and one of the magic stones. The kids are returned to the
village, and the bad guys are eaten by crocodiles. Everyone rides off on
elephants.
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