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- 1985
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
- 1985
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
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.
Directed By: Lewis Teague
Written By: Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner, Diane Thomas
- 1985
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
- 1985
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
The Jewel of the Nile
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6.4
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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.
Directed By: Lewis Teague
Written By: Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner, Diane Thomas
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
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55% Mixed
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9% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
53
36% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
55% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
We walk into the theater expecting absolutely nothing of substance, and that's exactly what we get, served up with high style.
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.
The major problem with the sequel therefore is really the script, which was not written by Diane Thomas and which, coincidentally, did not meet with immediate approval by Turner. And so instead of surprising us in the rapid-fire manner of the original, ''The Jewel of the Nile'' takes people we know and runs them ragged through a new but unappealing location--the Arab desert--as they get caught in the middle of a holy war that doesn`t have much entertainment value given the recent number of incidents involving real-life terrorism in the area.
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.
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]
Derivative as it was, ''Romancing the Stone'' did have a certain spunk, thanks to its contrast between the workaday life of Joan Wilder, romance novelist (played so gamely by Kathleen Turner), and the far-flung adventures into which the screenplay propelled her. Sadly for the sequel, the novelty in that contrast was more than used up the first time around. This time, through no fault of his own, the director Lewis Teague (the first film was directed by Robert Zemeckis) has little more to do than construct a retread.
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.
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