The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series) Prague, August 1917 (1993) User Reviews

Kafka can be funny

[JerseyJim77 · 5 March 2010]

One of the more interesting, humorous and bizarre Young Indy episodes. Indy must receive a critical phone call in his Prague hotel room. Unfortunately there is no phone and Indy is thrown into a Kafkaesque nightmare trying to get one installed in time. Indeed, Franz Kafka himself is one of the clerks in the phone office. The bureaucratic labyrinth, arbitrary policies and uncaring sadism of the "system" Indy faces will be familiar to anyone who had ever dealt with government agencies. This episode takes a comedic and satirical approach to our fear of being a rat in a bureaucratic maze. Tim McInnerny is outstandingly creepy as Kafka.

Really funny, good for variation!

[Hanngall · 10/10 · 18 December 2012]

An excellence way to show some variation from the killing and serious war episodes. Sean is such an good actor and it really shows in this epic episode full of laughter and surprises. Papers can become your enemy too, particularly bloodsucking bureaucrats!

It is not hard to understand it at all and really fun for the whole family. Nice to watch a rainy day with your kids to just let hard things go away and have a good laugh together.

That is precisely why I like the young Indy series, it's full of sad moments, like Vicky saying no to Indy or Molly dying in his arms but this is so fun and simple.

I will give this 10/10 because I think that the series need some variation from the more serious episodes, like Oganga or Trenches of Hell.