Harrison Ford, Kate Kapshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, Roy Chiao, David Yip, Ric Young, Chua Kah Joo

A thrill-a-minute, high-spirited action film, which also happens to explore issues of dining etiquette and culinary xenophobia. Spielberg's family feature offers a menu of the grotesque that, seen in the context of Indy's (Ford) flight to cultural and emotional primitivism, is what scholar Andrew Gordon describes as a "preoedipal realm of oral terrors" (Foods of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction [U Georgia P, 1996]). Eat your bugs.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)