The Jewel of the Nile

Name: The Jewel of the Nile
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Released: December 11, 1985
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Avner Eisenberg, Danny DeVito, Howard Jay Patterson, Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas

1985

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: December 11, 1985 | PG

Starring: Avner Eisenberg, Danny DeVito, Howard Jay Patterson, Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Paul David Magid, Randall Edwin Nelson, Samuel Ross Williams, Spiros Focás, Timothy Daniel Furst

Summary: When Joan Wilder is abducted while on a trip along the Nile, her boyfriend, Jack Colton, and friend Ralph rush to rescue her and retrieve a fabled jewel.

Director: Lewis Teague

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 106 min

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Roger Ebert

We walk into the theater expecting absolutely nothing of substance, and that's exactly what we get, served up with high style. Read full review

David Ansen

If the truth be told, my eagerness to sit through a sequel to "Romancing the Stone" only slightly surpassed my desire to revisit my periodonist. Surprise: The Jewel of the Nile, the further adventures of romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) and adventurer Jack Colton (Michael Douglas), is a good night at the movies. [16 Dec 1985, p.82]

Paul Attanasio

Splashy, spoofy and goofy, The Jewel of the Nile, the sequel to "Romancing the Stone," is both more fun and less touching than the original -- what was once a love story is now an out-and-out romp. Though overproduced and uninvolving, "Jewel" is also a smartly written and playfully directed crowd pleaser, and in this Christmas season, you take what you can get. Read full review

Rita Kempley

The sparkly but flawed sequel to the couple's last caper. [13 Dec 1985, p.29]

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As a sequel to Romancing the Stone, the script of The Jewel of the Nile is missing the deft touch of the late Diane Thomas but Lewis Teague's direction matches the energy of the original. Read full review

Bob Thomas

It is mainly the characters who have suffered in Jewel of the Nile. The bouncy relationship between Turner and Douglas has been lost; she appears mindlessly headstrong, he devotes his time to extricating her from trouble. A superior comic, DeVito has a one-note role of constant choler. [16 Dec 1985]

Dave Kehr

It's a rare sequel that fritters away the appeal of the original so completely: within minutes, this continuation of Romancing the Stone has reduced the Kathleen Turner-Michael Douglas couple to a nightmare pairing of the gushingly idiotic and the sourly venal. Read full review

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timone

Dec 1, 2021

Whilst I've been watching Romancing the Stone, I've decided to watch a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile. I was thinking about both of them films are as good as each other but in the recent years, it seems deteriorated because it's not as good as the first film. I remember watching it when I wasWhilst I've been watching Romancing the Stone, I've decided to watch a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile. I was thinking about both of them films are as good as each other but in the recent years, it seems deteriorated because it's not as good as the first film. I remember watching it when I was a big kid back in 2007. The action scenes were pretty good. Lots of explosions and gun noises. Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are back and Danny DeVito is back as a crook again and this time he teams with Jack Colton to find Joan Wilder in Arabia near Africa. Omar who is a villain who has the jewel, the jewel of the nile who arabians called him ''Al-Julhara''. So they found Joan, escape from Omar and fly the jet aircraft and Ralph is left all alone with arabians. They go to the african people, go to the train and got kidnapped by Omar. The Jewel of the Nile is not as good as Romancing the Stone but it's still good. The song that Billy Ocean sings is good. "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going." I like that song even though Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito singing along with Billy. As long as he film gets cheesy, it's still an enjoyable movie that has it's moments.… Expand

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