FairgroundTown is not a "blockbuster movie" kind of guy. The last one we saw was Spiderman I, which got reasonable reviews at the time, but which left us feeling like we were maybe just getting too old for this sort of thing. Interestingly enough, "too old for this sort of thing" is exactly what people have been saying about Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones film; but when an old school friend suggested it might fill a few hours on a lazy Sunday afternoon, we said "what the hell".

And to be honest... we had no regrets. And not just because the alternative was following Mrs FairgroundTown around Karen Millen and Monsoon for two and a half hours!!

Certainly, it is NOT a great movie; perhaps not even a great blockbuster. The story didn’t really go to any great lengths to make sense – it was more of a series of set-pieces strung together with vaguely archaeological-sounding gobbledegook – the equivalent of those scenes in Star Trek where the engineer tells everyone that all he needs to do is "re-route the phase couplings through the holographic inversion matrix" to hold off the alien ship for another few seconds.

But then, we weren’t EXPECTING a great movie – just some popcorn on a Sunday afternoon – which is EXACTLY what we got. And it occurred to us that it is a bit like the roller-coaster in Lego-Land. It isn’t the longest roller-coaster in the world, and it certainly isn’t the scariest. It doesn’t swing you upside-down through 100-meter curves at forces a trained fighter-pilot would find challenging; and it is so short they let you go round twice. But if you relax, put a smile on your face, and stop bitching about how it isn’t as good as Air at Alton Towers... even though it TOTALLY ISN’T... then it really is quite a lot of fun!