National Treasure: Collector's Edition DVD Review (2007)

Just in time for the sequel comes the two-disc collector’s edition of John Turteltaub's "National Treasure,” a ripe, ridiculous B-movie served up with generous helpings of cheese.

Nicolas Cage is Benjamin Franklin Gates--insert groan here--whose family has been trying for generations to find the buried treasure of the Knights Templar.

Allegedly, on the back of the Declaration of Independence is an invisible map that offers a series of clues that will lead Cage and his assistants to a colossal bounty.

Since Gates wants that map before thieves get to it first, complications and machinations abound, only a few of which--remarkably--deal with the actual theft of the declaration itself.

The action scenes in "Treasure" are passably entertaining and the movie doesn't take itself too seriously, but maybe it should have.

Nothing here is extraordinary and nothing matches what Spielberg created in the "Indiana Jones" movies, which "Treasure" tries to emulate in its own third-rate way.

Rated PG-13. Grade: C-