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Sure, you can't have actors pretend to be doctors anymore, but nobody said you couldn't dub over existing actors' voices to make them sound like shills for your product.

When we had finally secured a good copy of 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,' run home, and put it in the DVD player, the level of excitement couldn't have been any higher. But excitement soon turned to confusion, confusion turned to dismay, and dismay turned into righteous indignation. Throughout the entire viewing the same nagging question kept popping up in our heads: If we were willing to buy into the idea that the Ark of the Covenant could melt the faces of Nazis, Indian cult leaders could rip out hearts and put voodoo hexes on people, and that the Holy Grail was attainable and magical, why should we have any trouble with the believing that the El Dorado existed and was ruled by aliens? The answer, after hours of discussion with trusted friends, boils down to the unsatisfying 'I don't know, it's just somehow too ridiculous.' This film tests your suspension of disbelief threshold and fails miserably.

This has nothing to do with Shanghai, or China for that matter. But we can't get enough of these Japanese television commercials for Suntory Boss coffee drink featuring Oscar-winner and Harvard-grad Tommy Lee Jones. Jones has been appearing in Boss ads for a year now, we think, but we first learned of the campaign recently after a friend returned to Shanghai from Japan confused about the billboards he saw all over the place featuring huge, and not particularly flattering, head shots of the craggy-faced Mr. Jones.