'Indy' is, how you say, 'very good' at Cannes

0 Comments | USA TODAY, May, 2008 | by Anthony Breznican

CANNES, France -- The secrets of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are out, and you could read them in the grin on 12-year-old Pablo Schmit's face.

His smile showed every inch of his braces as he walked out of the very first screening Sunday afternoon at the Cannes Film Festival.

"Tres bien," said Pablo, one of the few children in a theater packed mainly with middle-aged journalists. His mother, Cecile Alcais, 38, who works in a local film production office, translated for him: "It's very good!"

It was an opinion she shared, though she said both also agreed that "Harrison Ford (65) may be too old. (Pablo) prefers the young guy." That would be Shia LaBeouf, 21, who plays motorcycle-riding sidekick Mutt.

The afternoon...