Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull: The Race With The Devil Cut

I watched the original around 10 years ago, and watching this edit reminded me of playing Lego Indiana Jones 2, so that was a bonus.

Of course, you got to have the nuke fridge scene, the town of mannequins is pretty surreal and the race to the fridge is tense. But I'm glad it was toned down for this edit, no fridge rocket.

In the jungle chase scene, I'm glad that Mutt was kept from turning into Tarzan, that was just weird in the original.
Mutt became Indy's son (or step-son) in the end, AND without the quick sand scene.

The Alien scene in the original took away the tension, what is he going to tell her? Ayy LMAO? The close up looked just like a meme without text. Now with the gray gone, it's very dramatic and a good end. Because from what I see the aliens are dead and those are their skeletons, with the UFO being on autopilot.

I'll rate 10/10 because it all looks good to me.

First of all, I'll just state the obvious, I don't like Indiana 4 at all. So, I wasn't expecting that I will find a fanedit that will make this movie truly enjoyable for me, but, I'm always curious to see in difficult situations like this what can an editor do. I'm a big fanedits fan, so I enjoy watching them even when I do not expect a film to be truly salvaged for me, like it was the case with this one.

Although I haven't seen it yet because it hasn't premiered, I think there is no mention of Indy's son in the new sequel which bodes well for this edit because DonkeyKonga has removed the fact that the character of Shia is Indy's son. He did well in removing that and it was also excellent the way he made the edit there.

The work done here is extremely good. All the cuts were seamless, almost all of the ridiculousness is gone and we finally have a half decent movie to watch as a sequel. I only saw Crystal Skull once so I can't say that I remember all the changes made here, but the fact that I didn't miss anything and I kind of enjoyed the film, speaks for itself.

I only have a couple of complaints about the edit. The first one is that the editor kept the laughable scene where Indy saves himself from an atomic bomb by going into a fridge. Though he did improve it by making it seem that it was far far away so technically he could be saved in a lead fridge. The second one is that he kept the flying saucer at the end. I mean, ok, we accept the alien part to an extend but seeing an actual flying saucer just pushes it over the edge. The editor explained to me though that this scene could not be removed without the whole sequence becoming choppy. And the third one, a minor, is that we could trim a liiitle bit of some ridiculous parts even more, like the character played by Cate Blanchett that straight up karate chops Shia multiple times in the jeep.

Other than that, if anyone somewhat enjoyed the original movie then I guarantee you this will elevate your experience to a whole new level and it will be your go-to version for any future Indy marathons!

Thank you DokeyKonga for all your hard work and thanks to anyone who read my review!

The theatrical version of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull is and always will be a bad movie with poor plot structure and campy and/or bad acting. It's a bad sequel to an awesome trilogy and many believe it should never have been made because it tarnishes the series. When it came out in 2008, I thought Lucas and Spielberg completely lost their minds. It was atrocious and easily the worst movie they ever made. This fan edit, however, changed my mind and it'll change yours too.

In short, it's fantastic!!!

There have been many attempts at trying to polish this turd and present it as something digestible but no one has come as close to making this movie as palatable as DonkeyKonga's fan edit has accomplished. This fan editor used their magic touch to finesse and extract the best parts of this movie and restructured it so that it is not only entertaining but enjoyable to a great degree.

Tweaking the beginning nuclear bomb sequence doesn't save the opening but it's far better than any other fan editor's out there. Removing bad sequences such as the quicksand scene, the monkees scene, the escape scene, and the vine scene elevate this fan edit far above other fan edits out there of this movie.

Now just removing bad scenes can't save a bad movie. Fortunately DonkeyKonga went the extra mile by restructuring the plot by making vital changes such as removing the horrible plot line of making Indiana Mutt's dad and tweaking as many scenes as possible to streamline the story making it as smooth as silk for this reviewer.

In closing, I can't recommend this fan edit highly enough! It's a completely different film from the one you've always hated in the theater so please give this fan edit a go. It'll change your mind and make you a believer in this Indiana Jones adventure.

DonkeyKonga.... Well done!!!

This edit does so much to improve the flow of the movie! I enjoyed 90% of the edits made and am happy to have Crystal Skull back in my Indy rotation due to this edit.

This still contains some of the out of place goofiness that is not my personal taste, but most of the interesting parts of the movie overcome that due to excellent editing.

Where can I start with this review?

The pacing is vastly improved, and the swinging with the monkeys are gone which is one of my least favorite parts of the original.

To compare, I like to watch the original movie before a fan edit to try and notice all the changes, and I couldn’t.

I can definitively say I have a new go-to version.

I saw it with a person who’d seen the movie once before and they were surprised to learn it was a fan edit.

I do, however, have a few minor complaints that didn’t detract from the overall story.

1. The low environmental audio where Hound Dog was removed in the beginning. Not a big deal at all.

2. Leaving the reaction shot of Mack in after Indiana is slapped by the Russian guy in the original.

To me, the reaction shot didn’t serve a purpose in this new edit.

3. I liked the “I like Ike” joke Indy said in the original.

Other than these 3 small things, it was a fantastic edit.