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the audience applauded

Good movie but grossly overrated

Crappy film

A different way of telling a story

These are curious Young Indy episodes because two 45-minute TV shows from 1993 are spliced together here for a single, 90-minute adventure in love.Corey Carrier, about 12 during filming, is young Henry 'Indiana' Jones, Jr. He, his tutor, and his mom are traveling through Europe with the famous dad. This movie about love takes place in Vienna and in Florence.In Vienna young Indy gets exposed to the new theories of Freud and Jung over dinner, and he tries to discover what love really is. He has been smitten by the young princess of Austria, a girl his age that he met when both were at a riding school. This episode shows that Indy's characteristics we see manifest in the adult Indy, played by Harrison Ford, were already being honed. As an example, when he was denied the opportunity to tell the young Princess goodbye before they parted, young Indy sneaked into the royal compound, eluded guards, and went into a window to tell her goodbye. The second half bridges nicely onto this theme of love, as young Indy's mom in Florence meets Puccini while dad has to travel to another city for a few days. She is flattered by the attention, but when Puccini tells her he has fallen in love, he can't live without her, she must take the train at night and run away with him, she becomes very conflicted. But the tutor, and older and wiser woman, gets her to think about her husband and her son, and in the end she does the right thing. This is a very entertaining and watchable movie.

The third adventure in the Young Indiana Jones DVD series sees young Indy travel with his parents to Vienna, where he falls in love for the first time and then Florence where his mother is forced into a difficult decision....The first part of this segment is far more interesting than the first and Corey Carrier plays his teenage infatuation with the right level of naivete and it's well-played how he breaks into the castle of an Archduke to see his daughter, although the locket she gives him proves handy later. The Florence segment is not as successful, despite the best efforts of the actors and we get no real feel for the dilemma that Mrs Henry Jones is facing.Nevertheless, it's still a solid episode and worth watching.

In this episode Indy first visits Vienna, where he is attending the Spanish Riding School. Besides the geographical and a few historical faults (I am from Vienna), it is a nice story. Indy falls in Love the first time in his life. Romantic and sweet. One of the funnier parts is the dinner, where Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung and Albert Hofmann (he discovered LSD) dine with the Jones family and discuss matters of "Love" with young Henry. It is deep and corny at the same time. But the three psychologists are not only played well (Freud the constant Bigtalk explaining his sexual-repression-thing and unease's the women; Jung, who fights with Freud and is more analytical abstract then Freud; and last but not least, the quiet and calm Hofmann, who, when speaking, punctuates), but also make this part really interesting.The second part, which is a little bit off the time-line (as someone commented before) plays in Florence and the family Jones meets the opera composer Puccini. Indy sees his first opera and is really drawn into it. From this moment on in, the whole film turns into a Puccini opera. Not only the music, but also the story, the cuts, the whole makeup of the second part of this episodes seems to be itself a Puccini opera. I always had the impression, that it is, because this is how Indy remembers the story. After all, all stories seem to be the things old Indiana (as it's a running gag in the later Episodes, where Indy always tells stories to random people) remembers. Actually the whole Series has this flair and I always believed, that the reason why "old Indy" does not show up in the episodes of the very young Indy is, because he does not remember these stories as consciously as he does with the ones he is a little bit older in. If you like opreas, take a look at this one. If not, watch it anyway and try to see the hidden parts.While opera is not for everyone and the story puts Indy in the position of second cast and removed the adventure elements, I think, that for a series, this episode is rather deep. Maybe too deep for what the general audience might want to see when they watch Indiana Jones. For me it adds real heart and shows the amount of subliminal and fine conceptions went into this series, as it happens with a lot of films George Lucas works on.

Young Indy travels to Austria with his parents where he meets Princess Sophie at a riding stable and falls madly in love when they sneak off for the afternoon. But her parents are furious and forbid them to see each other again. After taking dodgy advice from none other than Sigmund Freud Indy runs off to proclaim his love before leaving forever.It's sweet but barely holds the attention past the love story. The second half of the movie is inexcusable though as the Jones' travel to Florence where opera composer Giacomo Puccini falls in love with Indy's mother while Henry Jones Sr. is out of town. The following story of 'will she or won't she cheat' is certainly NOT what I want to see while watching an Indiana Jones adventure. There are plenty of crappy soap operas for that kind of stuff. I can't believe that Mike Newell (Goblet of Fire, Donnie Brasco) directed this.Watch only if your are an Indy completest or a sado-masochist.