National Treasure: Book Of Secrets (PG)

May 31 2008 By Graham Young

SLOW to start and very silly throughout, this modern take on Indiana Jones still manages to offer a fair amount of fun.

Parents of young children should be warned that it's a PG-rated Disney movie with gunfire.

But older children will hopefully have the sense to realise that it's history, and not violence, which can be the most exciting thing of all.

In his first sequel, Nicolas Cage plays 'treasure protector' Ben Gates, shaken by the discovery of pages from the diary of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth which implicates ancestor Thomas Gates in the murder.

Along with archivist Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) and the technically-minded Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), they embark on a globetrotting adventure in a race against time with Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris).

With the cast including Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel and Helen Mirren, there's plenty here to attract cinephiles into popcorn territory and cosmetic dentists will be fascinated by Cage's ominpresent gleaming gnashers.

Directed again by Jon Turteltaub (While You Were Sleeping), this is another guaranteed till-ringing smash for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, to add to the likes of Beverly Hills Cop, The Rock, Armageddon and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Out to buy for £17.99 (DVD box set £22.99 / Blu-ray £23.99), the extras include extended and deleted scenes.