![]() It’s all totally lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek and never dares to be serious about anything, which is refreshing. Which he does, with the help of a kick-ass girl bodyguard, with whom he does eventually things that make Mom happy (and creep us out a little once we think about his mom - ewww - thinking about what he’s doing with the kick-ass girl bodyguard). (The blatant invocation of Raiders of the Lost Ark somehow defuses all possible complaints that the film is stealing Indy’s thunder, even though it is.) There are, naturally, evil societies out to grab those powerful toys for their own use, and it’s up to Flynn to stop them. But when he gets kicked out of school by a professor who’s had it up to here with him, Flynn lucks into a job with “the Library,” an amazing repository of secret powerful artifacts, like Excalibur and Pandora’s Box and, oh yeah, the Ark of the Covenant. Flynn is, at 30something, a perpetual student with 22 degrees and a mom (Olympia Dukakis: The Great New Wonderful) who despairs of him ever finding a girlfriend. But when the press kit arrived from TNT with a preview DVD of the new film and Wyle ( Enough, Donnie Darko) looking so adorably Indiana Jones-ish, in a pleasantly nerdy way, on the cover of the packet, I thought: Why not give it a try? So I Netflixed the first film ( buy at Amazon), and checked it out, and what a hoot. That first movie had, frankly, looked pretty dumb, as far as I could see, so I gave it a miss back in 2004. I’d never seen the first film, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, until just this week. Flynn Carson … not a medical doctor but a professional geek and know-it-all in the made-for-TV Librarian movies, the second of which, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines, debuts on TNT this Sunday night, December 3. ![]() But now I’m reminded how darn cute he is by his totally charming Dr. John Carter got so annoying on ER - but then, everyone got so annoying on ER that I had to give it up. I forgot how darn cute Noah Wyle is after his poor little rich boy Dr.
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