10 Movies Ruined By Impossible Expectations

3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arib8uWMWsM What We Expected: The first Indiana Jones film in almost two decades, a return to the classic form that made Steven Spielberg famous in the first place. Though Harrison Ford was much older now, he seemed totally game for a work-out going by the trailers, and with a returning love interest in Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), it seemed like even Shia LaBeouf couldn't ruin the fun as Indy's son. What We Got: A frustrating, intermittently OK film that had its share of hiccups, but they didn't matter in the grand scheme of things, because the enormous expectations for one of the greatest franchises of all time getting a new sequel were enough to completely derail it. Even without the fridge-nuking, the CGI prairie dogs and Shia swinging from the vines like Tarzan, this one wouldn't have been able to meet the expectations of a massive fanbase nurtured over an almost 30-year period. Believe me, I'm no apologist for the film, and while it wasn't particularly good, it wasn't the irredeemably awful effort that many Indy fanboys will attest it is either. Cate Blanchett was great fun as the villain, and the extra-terrestrial set-pieces were appropriately loony.