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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

2004
Comedy, Drama
TV Movie
1h 32m
When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return... (imdb)

Directed by:

Peter Winther
Peter-Winther
7 total credits
Peter Winther has 7 credits at Criticker, including: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Aftermath, The Wicked and Painkillers

Writer:

David N. Titcher
David-N-Titcher
5 total credits
David N. Titcher has 5 credits at Criticker, including: Around the World in 80 Days, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Morgan Stewart's Coming Home and Houdini & Doyle

Starring:

Jane Curtin
Jane-Curtin
31 total credits
Jane Curtin has 31 credits at Criticker, including: Antz, I Love You, Man, Coneheads, The Heat and Can You Ever Forgive Me?
,
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia-Dukakis
60 total credits
Olympia Dukakis has 60 credits at Criticker, including: Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking Too, Mr. Holland's Opus, Moonstruck and Look Who's Talking Now
,
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle-MacLachlan
64 total credits
The "boy next door, if that boy spent lots of time alone in the basement," is how Rich Cohen described Kyle MacLachlan in a 1994 article for "Rolling Stone" magazine. That distinctly askew wholesomeness made MacLachlan a natural to become famous as the alter ego of twisted director David Lynch. Born and a raised in Yakima, Washington, MacLachlan graduated from the University of Washington in 1982. The darkly handsome actor made his feature debut when he starred in the big-budget David Lynch adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune (1984), but only enjoyed real success after appearing in a second Lynch project, the moody and perverse classic Blue Velvet (1986).
,
Kelly Hu
Kelly-Hu
45 total credits
Kelly Hu has 45 credits at Criticker, including: X2: X-Men United, The Scorpion King, Strange Days, Cradle 2 the Grave and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
,
Noah Wyle
Noah-Wyle
44 total credits
Noah Wyle has 44 credits at Criticker, including: Donnie Darko, A Few Good Men, Enough, White Oleander and Pirates of Silicon Valley
,
Bob Newhart
Bob-Newhart
28 total credits
George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide bestseller and reached #1 on the Billboard pop music charts--it remains the 20th best-selling comedy album in history...(wikipedia)
,
David Dayan Fisher
David-Dayan-Fisher
4 total credits
David Dayan Fisher has 4 credits at Criticker, including: National Treasure, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Depth Charge and The Last Post
,
Lisa Brenner
Lisa-Brenner
14 total credits
Lisa Brenner has 14 credits at Criticker, including: The Patriot, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Bad Samaritan, The Triangle and The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
,
Mario Iván Martínez
Mario-Ivn-Martnez
7 total credits
Mario Iván Martínez has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Original Sin, Like Water for Chocolate, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Death and the Compass and Macho
,
Clyde Kusatsu
Clyde-Kusatsu
26 total credits
Clyde Kusatsu has 26 credits at Criticker, including: In the Line of Fire, Hollywood Homicide, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and The Frisco Kid
,
Sonya Walger
Sonya-Walger
22 total credits
Sonya Walger has 22 credits at Criticker, including: Admission, Anon, For All Mankind, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Flashforward

Franchise:

The Librarian

Genres:

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Action

Countries:

Germany, USA

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

2004
Comedy, Drama
TV Movie
1h 32m
Avg Percentile 32.03% from 242 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

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Compact view
Avg Percentile 32.03% from 242 total ratings
Rated 24 Mar 2009
65
68th
Yes, this is a goofy Indiana Jones knock-off... yes, the acting and writing are cheesy... but there is something very watchable about movies like this.
Rated 24 Aug 2011
0
0th
Tried watching this. Really tried. Didn't succeed.
Rated 01 Jan 2010
52
28th
Quirky and cute, but without any substance. It promises nothing but face-palmingly bad jokes and cheesy music, and we get this in droves. The characters are at least likeable, even if they do tend to fall in love at the drop of a hat.
Rated 09 Oct 2009
18
4th
Omg? This film is just a serie of predictable events splashed after one another without even decent acting or a good plot. CGI effects were also terrible, actually it's just a complete disaster. I wanted to see this because mythologie interests me, but it's just worthless.
Rated 24 Jul 2008
50
38th
This is one of the most B movies I have ever seen. The plot leaps unexpectedly and entertainingly from one ridiculous place to another, which is pretty much what makes it worth sitting through. It doesn't take itself too seriously, which saves it a bit. It's certainly not very good, but it's got some underlying charm. I went in expecting a ludicrous B movie, and that's what I got. I was strangely entertained. If you can't see past a ridiculous plot, avoid.
Rated 03 Jun 2008
80
74th
i guess even if you have a modest budget--no, a terribly small budget--you can still make a solid movie provided you have a good story (even though completely over-the-top) and noah wyle.
Rated 11 May 2008
45
44th
A poor man's National Treasure, with a lower budget, a worse supporting cast (Noah Wyle in the lead is actually pretty good), and much worse CGI. The music is often inopportune and overall the movie has a very obvious B movie feel. But it was kinda fun in a family-friendly way.
Rated 28 Jun 2025
62
53rd
Efficient with its small budget
Rated 25 Apr 2025
40
19th
Good natured, but not very good. Likeable actors (I can never have enough Jane Curtin, though, so I wish she was used more). Ludicrous special effects (he falls for 5 seconds off a cliff, but has only plummeted about 12 feet when she finally lasso's him, for example. There's lots of that kind of thing). But I can easily imagine watching with my family on a Saturday night and having a great time ... it spawned two sequels and a TV series, so it seems like many are looking past its obvious flaws.
Rated 23 Jun 2024
30
14th
I felt nothing but pure joy watching this. It's incredibly low budget, terrible writing, and questionable acting don't matter at all. If you go in knowing that it's just a 2004 tv movie ripoff of Indiana Jones you'll have a great time. Oh, and I’ll totally watch the next one.
Rated 15 Jul 2023
40
29th
don't remember it
Rated 02 May 2021
35
7th
This came out the same year as National Treasure lmao.
Rated 14 May 2016
70
36th
The Librarian was a good romp across time. Noah Wyle is tasked with being The Librarian, a kind of super hero for the Smithsonian Crowd. The movie was equal parts action, historical sci-fi, and comedy. The casting was great. I love seeing Jane Curtin in movies and Bob Newhart always warms the crowd as a character. I am glad to know that there is anothet movie in this series because ,even at a two hour runtime, I craved for more. But then again I liked Da Vinci Code and National Treasure
Rated 31 May 2015
50
22nd
A painfully average TV movie version of Indiana Jones. The first half hour is interesting because it tries to be its own thing. After that not even a whacky Noah Wyle can save the film from boredom.
Rated 09 Jan 2015
58
15th
So cheesy. Its got energy, but objectively, this camp family-oriented adventure film is just not very good. Having watched TNT's The Librarians, which continues the franchise's distinctive style in a TV format that works well, this film provides backstory into Flynn, making it moderately less tedious than it otherwise would have been.
Rated 23 Nov 2012
23
10th
Everything in this movie is rushed and mostly everything made no sense at all. The dialogue was awkward and the main character unrealistic. You see where I am going with this? Making a movie on the scope that The Librarian wants to be but only having half a budget plus a few shoddy writers just doesn't produce very good results. At least Kyle McLachlan was there to pick up some of the scraps. I am a sucker for an Indiana Jones-like setting but it was an absolute disaster of a set-up and a film.
Rated 12 May 2012
40
5th
Worse than I expected.
Rated 02 Apr 2011
49
44th
While watching this, I kept wondering just whom it was geared to (extremely precocious tweens? Yeah, right...), but it's a light-hearted, campy, surprisingly entertaining romp. There are far, far worse ways to pass a couple of hours.
Rated 14 Sep 2010
88
91st
Ok, yes, it's cheesy fun. Bad special effects, hokey score and (with the exception of Wyle, Curtin and Newhart) cardboard characters but I'd still rather watch this than "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".
Rated 20 Mar 2010
68
30th
Really cheesy with not quite enough laughs, but still mindless fun at times.
Rated 15 Nov 2009
75
63rd
Because of it's camp style
Rated 11 May 2009
60
18th
National Treasure meets Harry Potter with some very cheesy acting and a ripoff plot from Dr. Jones.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Peter Winther
Peter-Winther
7 total credits
Peter Winther has 7 credits at Criticker, including: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Aftermath, The Wicked and Painkillers

Writer:

David N. Titcher
David-N-Titcher
5 total credits
David N. Titcher has 5 credits at Criticker, including: Around the World in 80 Days, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Morgan Stewart's Coming Home and Houdini & Doyle

Starring:

Jane Curtin
Jane-Curtin
31 total credits
Jane Curtin has 31 credits at Criticker, including: Antz, I Love You, Man, Coneheads, The Heat and Can You Ever Forgive Me?
,
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia-Dukakis
60 total credits
Olympia Dukakis has 60 credits at Criticker, including: Look Who's Talking, Look Who's Talking Too, Mr. Holland's Opus, Moonstruck and Look Who's Talking Now
,
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle-MacLachlan
64 total credits
The "boy next door, if that boy spent lots of time alone in the basement," is how Rich Cohen described Kyle MacLachlan in a 1994 article for "Rolling Stone" magazine. That distinctly askew wholesomeness made MacLachlan a natural to become famous as the alter ego of twisted director David Lynch. Born and a raised in Yakima, Washington, MacLachlan graduated from the University of Washington in 1982. The darkly handsome actor made his feature debut when he starred in the big-budget David Lynch adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune (1984), but only enjoyed real success after appearing in a second Lynch project, the moody and perverse classic Blue Velvet (1986).
,
Kelly Hu
Kelly-Hu
45 total credits
Kelly Hu has 45 credits at Criticker, including: X2: X-Men United, The Scorpion King, Strange Days, Cradle 2 the Grave and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
,
Noah Wyle
Noah-Wyle
44 total credits
Noah Wyle has 44 credits at Criticker, including: Donnie Darko, A Few Good Men, Enough, White Oleander and Pirates of Silicon Valley
,
Bob Newhart
Bob-Newhart
28 total credits
George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery, Newhart came to prominence in the 1960s when his album of comedic monologues The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart was a worldwide bestseller and reached #1 on the Billboard pop music charts--it remains the 20th best-selling comedy album in history...(wikipedia)
,
David Dayan Fisher
David-Dayan-Fisher
4 total credits
David Dayan Fisher has 4 credits at Criticker, including: National Treasure, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Depth Charge and The Last Post
,
Lisa Brenner
Lisa-Brenner
14 total credits
Lisa Brenner has 14 credits at Criticker, including: The Patriot, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Bad Samaritan, The Triangle and The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
,
Mario Iván Martínez
Mario-Ivn-Martnez
7 total credits
Mario Iván Martínez has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Original Sin, Like Water for Chocolate, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, Death and the Compass and Macho
,
Clyde Kusatsu
Clyde-Kusatsu
26 total credits
Clyde Kusatsu has 26 credits at Criticker, including: In the Line of Fire, Hollywood Homicide, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and The Frisco Kid
,
Sonya Walger
Sonya-Walger
22 total credits
Sonya Walger has 22 credits at Criticker, including: Admission, Anon, For All Mankind, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear and Flashforward

Franchise:

The Librarian

Genres:

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Action

Countries:

Germany, USA
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