The Librarian - Quest for the Spear
by Peter Winther
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Actor: Bob Newhart, Kelly Hu, Kyle MacLachlan, Noah Wyle, Sonya WalgerDirector: Peter Winther
Brand: WYLE,NOAH
Producer: David N. Titcher
Writer: David N. Titcher
Producer: Dean Devlin
Producer: Gary Hamilton
Producer: Jörg Westerkamp
Producer: Kai Schürmann
Producer: Kearie Peak
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Latin (Original Language); Mongolian (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Product features:
- Extended Version
Movie Reviews of The Librarian - Quest for the Spear
Movie Review: Wonderful characterization
Summary: 5 Stars
I've watched all three of the Librarian movies, so this will sort of be a conglomerate review of the trilogy. Flynn Carson is adorable as a thirty-something, professional student whose head stores more facts than Encyclopedia Brittanica or reputable ".org" sites. After 16 years of college, he has 22 different degrees (12 bachelor's, 6 master's, and 4 Ph.D's). According to my math (and no differential equations involved with this computation), he should be 34-years-old in the first installment. Yet he celebrates his 32nd birthday in the second movie, when logically, he should be celebrating his 35th. Ahh well, maybe he was dual-enrolled.
His mother is forever setting him up with young women, including his own (a few times-removed) cousin in the third movie. Flynn realizes after a blind-date (arranged, of course, by his fretting mother) with a social worker, that he needs to change in some ways. So, when a Harry Potteresque invitation to apply for "The Librarian" post at the Metropolitan Museum of New York arrives unexpectedly in the mail, Flynn applies for the job. He is selected because he can apply all his book learning to deduce that Charlene, the interviewer, had a reconstructive nose job in early childhood, currently suffers from swollen glands, and has two cats who left practically invisible traces of fur on her blazer. He also knows what's important in life, gleaned from a recent pep talk with his mother: it's the heart that matters more than the mind.
The librarian job is a tour-de-force, and Flynn's prolonged studenthood was a serendipitous (or not so-serendipitous) preparation for the job description: saving the world. These movies could also be called "The Curator," as it seems like a private collections art curator is more apropos; Flynn repeatedly rescues or destroys mythical artifacts that have magical powers.
After much adventure and near-death experiences, Flynn successfully retrieves the spear. However, I thought that one detail was inconsistent. The spear was purposely split into thirds to render it less dangerous. These three parts were hidden across the globe, one of which was housed at the Museum, where it was stolen. The splintered pieces of the spear harnessed enough energy from a pyramid alignment that the spear became whole again. Yet, Flynn is not asked to break the spear apart again once it is returned to the library. I would have thought that he'd have to arrange for it to be splitered again and then hide the remaining two pieces at other remote geographical locations.
Still, a lot of fun. The character of Judson is mysterious. The third movie implies he is much more than director of The Library, perhaps a supernatural deity. Flynn tells Judson, "I know who you are." Flynn persists, "You're over two thousand years old," whereas Judson shakes his head and sallies, "Two thousand years old, think about it, now that is just insulting."
In these movies, myth is history and the far-fetched is fact. A lot of fun and undergirded by light humor. I absolutely love the characterization of Flynn Carson. This character has no idea how gorgeous he is, and he makes bookish and nerdy smolderingly hot.
Summary of The Librarian - Quest for the Spear
When a piece of the magical Spear of Destiny goes missing from the Metropolitan Library's secret collection of artifacts, it is up to a meek librarian and his female bodyguard to keep it out of the hands of an evil brotherhood bent on using it for world dGenre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 30-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
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