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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 1304
Released: May 3, 2005 |
| Our Price: $9.00 |
| Used Price: $2.47 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, and Jon Turteltaub, director of PHENOMENON, comes NATIONAL TREASURE. It's the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat adventure starring Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (1995 Best Actor, LEAVING LAS VEGAS) as Benjamin Franklin Gates. Ever since he was a boy, Gates has been obsessed with finding the legendary Knights Templar Treasure, the greatest fortune known to man. As Gates tries to find and decipher ancient riddles that will lead him to it, he's dogged by a ruthless enemy (Sean Bean, THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy) who wants the riches for himself. Now in a race against time, Gates must steal one of America's most sacred and guarded documents -- the Declaration of Independence -- or let it, and a key clue to the mystery, fall into dangerous hands. Heart-pounding chases, close calls, and the FBI turn Gates's quest into a high-stakes crime caper and the most exciting treasure hunt you've ever experienced.
Description of National Treasure (Widescreen Edition):
Like a Hardy Boys mystery on steroids, National Treasure offers popcorn thrills and enough boyish charm to overcome its rampant silliness. Although it was roundly criticized as a poor man's rip-off of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Da Vinci Code, it's entertaining on its own ludicrous terms, and Nicolas Cage proves once again that one actor's infectious enthusiasm can compensate for a multitude of movie sins. The contrived plot involves Cage's present-day quest for the ancient treasure of the Knights Templar, kept secret through the ages by Freemasons past and present. Finding the treasure requires the theft of the Declaration of Independence (there are crucial treasure clues on the back, of course!), so you can add "caper comedy" to this Jerry Bruckheimer production's multi-genre appeal. Nobody will ever accuse director Jon Turtletaub of artistic ambition, but you've got to admit he serves up an enjoyable dose of PG-rated entertainment, full of musty clues, skeletons, deep tunnels, and harmless adventure in the old-school tradition. It's a load of hokum, but it's fun hokum, and that makes all the difference. --Jeff Shannon
National Treasure (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Conspiracy for kiddies 
2009-12-12 - 3.4 stars
Not bad, not great, NT is a good flick for kids not old enough to see Raiders of the Lost Ark (however old that is). It's Disney/Bruckheimer, which portends the level of gloss; strange to see Disney working with JB, well-known in Hollywood for savagely beating his many high-priced call girls. But you don't have to have morals to sell morality, fortunately for most of that town, and this flick subtly pushes all sorts of mythology while simultaneously mocking what it purports to celebrate.
Trevor Rabin's score has some fine moments, and nothing is exceptionally poor here, but then nothing is exceptionally fine either, except perhaps the set design, which has some highlights. Cage is typically good but not great, though Voight and Plummer do add some gravitas to the proceedings. There are many egregious continuity issues with the script's factual details, but hey, don't look too closely at the man behind the curtain...
NT is predictably manipulative, with the music telling us what to feel if the script doesn't do it well enough, and if you're looking for vaguely exciting Saturday night mindnumbing, this could pass. All in all, good fun for those who like to believe that the Masonic and Templar theories etc have no truth to them and that all in American history is as we read in the history books. Which, in a nutshell, is what the Disney view of life is all about.
Good to go... 
2009-12-07 - Everything looked new. It was still in the shrink wrap. The movie plays just fine. Standard shipping got it to me within about a week.
Great family film that hopefully gets more people looking into history
2009-11-10 - What a great and entertaining movie.
I love that the movie involves so many historic locations.
Hopefully, it gets more kids and adults interested in history.
The movie is clean, fun, and has a good message.
Disappointed 
2009-10-25 - Took forever to recieve. Thought since they were in my state that it would have delivered faster. If I had read their reviews I would not have ordered from them at all.
National Treasure
2009-10-12 - Very good movie. I am glad I bought the bounus material. There really is a lot of fun interactive activities.
