It's 1916, and Indiana Jones is living with his dad in Princeton, New Jersey. Spring break is fast approaching, and all Indy can think of is taking his girlfriend Nancy (daughter of cliffhanger author Edward Stratemeyer) to the prom in a slick new Bugati. The car's foreign engine is impossible to get parts for, but a favor from a professor working at Thomas Edison's laboratory raises his hopes. His plans are sidetracked when a mysterious break-in, the theft of an electric motor, and rumors of German spies result in a mystery that only Indy and Nancy can unravel. Indy and his father then head to the southwest to visit family in Albuquerque. With his mischievous cousin Frank, Indy heads to Columbus, New Mexico to sew some wild oats when the town is suddenly attacked by Pancho Villa and his riders. Playing hero, Indy follows the Villistas into the desert and is soon taken captive. As a 16-year old itching for a good fight, Indy is stirred by Villa's words, and joins his cause, riding with the Villistas as General Pershing chases them throughout the desert. Indy meets and befriends the Belgian expatriate Remy, witnesses the intensity of a young George S. Patton, and also finds a murderer who escaped the law eight years earlier in Cairo in this adventure that sets the teenage Indy on a path that will lead him to war-torn Europe. "Spring Break Adventure" is a welcome return to form for "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones". The Princeton sequences, with Sean Patrick Flannery now playing Indy, brilliantly recapture the feel of the early scenes of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", as Indy outdoes a treacherous scientist before taking lovely girl (Robin Lively) to the prom.<br/><br/>Even better is the Mexico sequence with Indy donning his trademark fedora hat and joining in the Mexican revolution, riding with Pancho Villa (Mike Moroff) and meeting Remy (Ronny Coutteure) who will become his companion as they head off into the sunset to join the Belgian army fighting in World War I.<br/><br/>Also keeping in with the movies, Indy has the chance to settle an old score as he reclaims an Egyptian relic stolen that he witnessed being stolen in a previous adventure.<br/><br/>A great and much needed kick in the pants for the DVD adventures of Young Indiana Jones. These two episodes are set in 1916. The first in Princeton and Oragne, NJ, including the factories of Thomas Edison. The second at Spring Break time, in New Mexico and Mexico during the revolution.<br/><br/>Sean Patrick Flanery is really good as young Indiana Jones. The first episode (45 minutes) involves the school prom and his wanting to borrow his girlfriend's dad's Bugatti to impress the other kids. But the car develops a generator problem and Indy finds out that a scientist friend working for Thomas Edison can repair it easily, they just have to get it to the Labs. They do so by train and bicycle. But just as they arrive thugs kidnap the scientist friend and some plans for new batteries that would make the internal combustion engine obsolete. Robyn Lively is his girl Nancy, and the two of them have to do detective work to figure out who is sponsoring all this.<br/><br/>The second episode (45 minutes) has Indy going on Spring Break with his family to New Mexico. He and his cousin decide they will try to get to the Mexican border to see a bordello, and tell the parents that they are going camping. But as soon as they get to the small Mexican town they encounter a band of thieves on horses, shooting up the town and blowing out the bank to steal money to finance their revolution. Indy gets involved in the cause and meets Pancho Villa, and Indy ends up helping out in a battle, but then decides that "this is not my revolution" and heads home.<br/><br/>Interestingly this is the first time I saw Indy use a bull whip, which later became part of his signature.
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