Quick, get in the fridge. There’s a bomb-a-coming

I came across a great phrase the other day – Nuking  The Fridge.  In a way it kind of means the same as jumping the shark but more sort of aimed at movie franchises than TV series. 

It takes it name from the god awful-pissing-on-his-legacy-for-more-cash-Lucas_written-Spielberg-directed Indiana Jones 4.  A film which gave you a burst of nostalgia by managing to recreate the feeling you got when you found out Santa was your dad.  In the film Indy finds himself in a testing site for a nuclear bomb and so he hides in a fridge which then gets blown a couple of miles away.  He walks out of the fridge completely fine.

Basically the phrase means the point when a film streches believability.  No, not quite believability but… Most films require you to suspend your disbelief but it’s when a film takes the piss and does something that doesn’t seem quite right.  Spidey jazz dancing in Spiderman 3, the whole of Batman & Robin.  I think it’s the point when a writer thinks ‘fuck how do I finish this?  Sod it I’ll just put a magic portal here which sorts everything out.’

This webiste has been set up which can define it much better than I.

Also there’s a rumour that George Lucas might make an Indy 5.  This is really very upsetting.  Can’t you just leave your franchises alone George?  Haven’t you done enough?