INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) **1/2 Steven Spielberg played to Kate Capshaw's greatest theatrical talent by giving her a role that required overacting in place of acting. Does she pull it off? No, but she does overact. She also succeeds in making Harrison Ford seem like he's acting, but it's also true that he does at least emit the scent and spirit of the heroic figure he portrays. New writers (Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz) abandon the cliffhanger-a-minute style of Raiders of the Lost Ark in favor of letting some of the better bits percolate a bit, and give viewers an opportunity to linger on the brilliant temple sets. Also features perhaps the most grotesque ever non-egg based dinner footage. Better than the first Indy flick, full of entertaining scenes and good lines occasionally even delivered convincingly, in the sense that in stories of this nature credibility is a currency derived by expectations inaugurated and developed by Marvel Comic Books.