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[Note: To those who caught this trailer right after I posted it, I apparently uploaded the wrong one. The new one, as you can see now, actually shows the Crystal Skull, it also shows a plane flying over what looking to be some "markings" in a farm land and it has a series of people yelling "Jones!", just in case we didn't know his name... Sorry about the error. All is fixed now.]

As if just for good measure, the folks at Paramount Pictures have released yet another full-length trailer for the upcoming blockbuster-to-be Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This time around you will notice that not a lot has been changed from the trailer that was just launched via the film’s official site — in fact, I had to watch them side-by-side once just to be sure — but trust me, this one has some new stuff. One thing that I found to be new is a really anti-climactic, soft end to it. Instead of charging out with a fury of kickass imagery and iconic Indy moments, it sort of starts quick and then putters to a close. My hope is that the film doesn’t follow suit.

I may or may not have said this before, but I have been thinking it for a while — Indiana Jones 4 is the film that worries me the most this summer, in a very serious way. I know that there are fans of the series who have been waiting most of my life for this movie to finally come to fruition, but for some reason I still feel as if there is a lack of energy in its final thrust toward its release on May 22nd. It is not due to a lack of marketing, or even poor marketing for that matter, but rather a lack of interest, possibly from the younger generation. As a fan of the franchise, I hope that my gut instinct is wrong here, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Indy doesn’t live up to the hype that is 20 some odd years in the making.

What do you think, will Indy 4 live up to the hype? Will it perform well at the box office, despite being in the middle of the most competitive month of the summer?

View the trailer in high definition over at Apple.com.