10 Movie Sequels That Didn't Go The Way They Should Have

Thanks to The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, we have a comprehensive list of things that simply don't work in an Indiana Jones movie, and they include aliens, Shia LaBeouf, CGI monkey and nuke-proof refrigerators.

Crystal Skull needed to be something truly special to justify a 19-year wait, and while it was never going to live up to such hype, the least it could have done is treated one of the most iconic heroes of all time with the respect he deserved.

The fridge-nuking scene alone was enough to reduce Indy to a parody of his former self, and having spacemen serve as the movie's McGuffin was too radical a departure from the series' traditions for some fans to stomach.

As for how Steven Spielberg and George Lucas should have made Indiana Jones 4, perhaps it's more a case of they shouldn't. The Last Crusade's final shot, in which Indy and his father ride off into the sunset, was beyond perfect.

Reports suggest Indy 5 will take the whip-cracking archaeologist back to his roots, but that might be difficult considering his roots are fleeing from boulders at high speed and battering Nazis, and Harrison Ford will be 77 by the time it comes out.