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I broke the Holy Grail! On my first day!
I'd never heard of this galloping, funny adventure till I ran across it at Blockbuster; turns out it was made for TNT, which I never watch. Anyway, if you're an Indiana Jones, this is a pretty good way to waste 110 minutes. Noah Wyle from ER is Flynn Carson, a perpetual college student (now thirty-two and with more than twenty degrees) finally forced to look for a job in the real world. He ends up not a librarian but The Librarian, in charge of a secret collection filled with the world's most valuable artifacts -- Pandora's Box, the Ark of the Covenant, Excalibur, the Holy Grail, the goose that laid the golden eggs, etc. (I guess they figured more viewers would understand "librarian" than "curator.") The Bad Guys sneak in and steal one-third of the Spear of Destiny -- the Lance of Longinus -- the other two pieces of which are hidden away, one in a lost temple in the Amazon, the other in Shangri-La in the Himalayas. Flynn, naturally, must retrieve the other pieces and prevent their being rejoined by the Head Bad Guy. He's the brains, the brawn being supplied by Nicole Noone; she's supposed to be an example of perfect beauty but Sonya Walger just doesn't meet that requirement, sorry. It's a light-hearted romp with assorted plot-holes and not-believable stunts and a hero who just knows entirely too much about everything. ("I memorized the world," he says.) On the other hand, any film that includes Bob Newhart as an action-packed Marine unarmed combat specialist is worth watching. Jane Curtin is also there as a gatekeeper-type, and Clyde Kusatsu (remember Admiral Nakamura on Star Trek?) as the head monk of Shangri-La.

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The Librarian is great!!!
I have seen this DVD in stores for a while and I thought that it looked like it might be pretty good. I finally decided to pick it up and man am I glad that I did, it was a great movie. Noah Wyle (of ER fame) is pretty good at comedy, he should do more. Kelly Hu (from X2) was hot as ever, I just wished that she would have been in it more. Bob Newheart and Jane Curtin were funny as usual. <
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> All in all 'The Librarian: Quest for the Spear' was great, I highly recommend it to anybody how like a good old fashioned adventure/comedy movie. So what are you waiting for, get your copy today.

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"B Movie Goodness."
Noah Wyle [Carter from ER] plays Flynn Carsen, a nerdy intelligent librarian that gets recruited by the government to preside over the super secret underground library. This library contains all of the super secret volumes that were only rumored to exist. It also contains things like the Arc of the Covenant, Pandora's Box, Excalibur [still in the stone], The Golden Goose, etc. <
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>Soon after Carsen is shown around the library by Judson, [Bob Newhart], the library is broken into by a crack team of evil doers. One third of the "Spear of Destiny", that was in the care of the library, is stolen. This is the spear that pierced Christ's side. This is a dangerous artifact. Hitler had a third. Napoleon had a third. Generally it's a bad thing in the wrong hands. <
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>Someone is trying to get all three segments together. Very Bad. It's up to Carsen to gather the other parts before the villains do. The first piece is in the Amazon somewhere. While traveling to South America he meets up with Nicole Noone [Sonya Walger] who is basically his protector. Action packed silly adventure ensues. <
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>The villain is villainous. The hero is virtuous. The heroine is competent. And Bob Newhart is the marine who kicks butt. [Go with it. It's funny] <
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>It's not a "Raiders of the Lost Arc", it's not worth going to see in a theater. It may not even be worth buying. But if it's going to be broadcast on the box, enjoy! <
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