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This is a two-disc set containing the three Librarians made for TV movies, starring Noah Wyle in his first major post-ER role. Wyle stars a Flynn Carson, a perpetual student with a multitude of pretty useless degrees and no life. Flynn receives an invitation to apply for a job as the librarian at the New York Metropolitan Library. He discovers that the Librarian collects and protects magical and supernatural artifacts like Excaliber, Pandora's Box, and The Ark of the Covenant. In the first movie, The Quest for the Spear, the Spear of Destiny is stolen from the Library, and Flynn and his Guardian, Nicole Noone, (played by Sonya Wagner) have to recover it. In the second movie, Return to King Solomon's Mines, Flynn and an archeologist named Emily Davenport (played by Gabrielle Anwar) must find, and guard the secret of King Solomon's Mine. The third movie, Curse of the Judas Chalice, is set in New Orleans and has a storyline that involves vampires and their version of the Holy Grail.
The movies are basically Indiana Jones knockoffs with even more supernatural elements than the Indiana Jones movies, mixed with a love story. In each movie, Flynn ends up falling in love with the female lead (Wagner in the first movie, Anwar in the second, and Stana Katic in the third) during an adventure to find and recover some ancient relic. None of the movies had a huge budget, so the special effects could be a bit cheesy, but I think cheesy was the vibe they were going for.
Each of the movies has some extras including deleted scenes and some behind-the-scenes featurettes. The extras run about 15 minutes or less per movie, so none of the movies have an extensive amount of bonus content, but it is there for you.
I'd say that the movies are good, but not great. They do have strong supporting casts including Jane Curtin, Bob Newhart (both of whom reprise their roles in the spin-off TV series The Librarians), Kelly Hu, Kyle McLaughlan, Olympia Dukakis, Bruce Davidson, Erick Avari, and more. They do take a lot of suspension of disbelief, but they are generally well-written and acted and some of the storylines carried over into the TV series. I cannot say they will appeal to everyone, but if you generally like action-adventure movies with some fantasy elements mixed in, this is worth watching.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
Many other people enter those doors with the crouching lions in front, but only a special few get to access the REAL library behind hidden doors. The real library has artifacts of myth and legend. As Judson, head of the library tells Flynn, "Some of the items in the library violate the known laws of science. But that is only because our brains are so small we haven't come up with laws to explain them."
One of those items is one of three parts of the Spear of Destiny. Whoever joins the three parts has a spear of awesome power and can take over the world. On Flynn's very first night, ninja's break into the library and steal it's spear part. Flynn's mission, as explained by Judson and Charlene, the library administrator, is to use an ancient book and recover all three parts of the spear for the library. Good thing the bumbling Flynn isn't sent into the wild alone.
That is "Quest for the Spear", the first of "The Librarian" made-for-TV movies, first airing on TNT. The other two movies follow the same general formula. This is family fare in the vein of the the movies shown on "The Wonderful World of Disney" (1969–1979). Though I don't think any of The Librarian movies are as good as the best of Disney.
The first movie originally aired in 2004. "Return to King Solomon's Mines" followed in 2006, with "Curse of the Judas Chalice" in 2008. The movies are comedy-adventures with adequate bad guys and far-fetched fantastical plots. Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin are good as Judson and Charlene. The first movie has Kyle Maclachlan as the man out to rule the world. Sidekicks are pretty good. See Stana Katic in the third movie, just before she became Detective Kate Beckett on "Castle" (2009-2016).
English subtitles are available on all three movies. "The Curse of the Judas Chalice" has four Bonus Features:
...A... "Deleted Scenes" (7 minutes) Three extended scenes.
...B... "Visual Effects Deconstruction Sequences" (7 minutes) For 11 scenes in the movie, they show the green screen as filmed and the actual altered scenes.
...C... "A Look Behind the Monastery Scene" (3 minutes) A short video of a rehearsal.
...D... "Previews" Trailers for 5 other movies.
I didn't dislike the three Librarian movies, they are OK, with the 1st, "Quest for the Spear" better than the rest.
Happy Reader
Family Made-for-TV movies, comedy adventures with good sidekicks!
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
Flynn Carsen, 32 years-old and a professional student has been kicked out of college after getting only 22 degrees. He is dispiritedly going through the newspaper job ads when a strange envelope comes in the mail. It's from the Metropolitan Public Library, "You have been selected to interview for a prestigious position." It turns out its him and a hundred other people. But Flynn's the one who lands the job as Librarian with a 6-month trial period.Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
Many other people enter those doors with the crouching lions in front, but only a special few get to access the REAL library behind hidden doors. The real library has artifacts of myth and legend. As Judson, head of the library tells Flynn, "Some of the items in the library violate the known laws of science. But that is only because our brains are so small we haven't come up with laws to explain them."
One of those items is one of three parts of the Spear of Destiny. Whoever joins the three parts has a spear of awesome power and can take over the world. On Flynn's very first night, ninja's break into the library and steal it's spear part. Flynn's mission, as explained by Judson and Charlene, the library administrator, is to use an ancient book and recover all three parts of the spear for the library. Good thing the bumbling Flynn isn't sent into the wild alone.
That is "Quest for the Spear", the first of "The Librarian" made-for-TV movies, first airing on TNT. The other two movies follow the same general formula. This is family fare in the vein of the the movies shown on "The Wonderful World of Disney" (1969–1979). Though I don't think any of The Librarian movies are as good as the best of Disney.
The first movie originally aired in 2004. "Return to King Solomon's Mines" followed in 2006, with "Curse of the Judas Chalice" in 2008. The movies are comedy-adventures with adequate bad guys and far-fetched fantastical plots. Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin are good as Judson and Charlene. The first movie has Kyle Maclachlan as the man out to rule the world. Sidekicks are pretty good. See Stana Katic in the third movie, just before she became Detective Kate Beckett on "Castle" (2009-2016).
English subtitles are available on all three movies. "The Curse of the Judas Chalice" has four Bonus Features:
...A... "Deleted Scenes" (7 minutes) Three extended scenes.
...B... "Visual Effects Deconstruction Sequences" (7 minutes) For 11 scenes in the movie, they show the green screen as filmed and the actual altered scenes.
...C... "A Look Behind the Monastery Scene" (3 minutes) A short video of a rehearsal.
...D... "Previews" Trailers for 5 other movies.
I didn't dislike the three Librarian movies, they are OK, with the 1st, "Quest for the Spear" better than the rest.
Happy Reader
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Roberto
Purtroppo l'audio è in inglese ed è senza sottotitoli in italiano.
Reviewed in Italy on May 5, 2023Otis
The librarian trilogy is a good start to a fun tv series called The Libarians
Reviewed in Canada on March 23, 2018Reid A. Nelson
Excellent introduction to the Librarians series
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2022
