Entertaining and Mildly Amusing

Rating: 7/10 (1 September 2012)

'The Mummy' is a pleasing movie that combines light-hearted humour and elements of horror to give an entertaining watch. An excellent cast and decent script gives an entertaining array of believable characters that enjoy some excellent on-screen chemistry, particularly between the characters portrayed by Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss. The locations/sets are well-chosen/designed and look very realistic, and input from real-life experts lends a pleasing reality to when the actors are speaking in ancient Egyptian. The plot is fairly straight-forward, but still contains enough suspense to keep you interested and it retains plenty of light-hearted humour to keep from getting too serious. All-in-all, I really like this movie and will watch it many times again.