Not Raiders of the Lost Ark, but fun anyway

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 1999)

A pretty young Egyptologist and her ne'er-do-well brother are guided by young adventurer Brendan Fraser to the legendary City of the Dead, where she hopes to find an ancient book and her brother hopes to find treasure. When she reads a passage from the book, a cursed Mummy awakes and set out to recover his bodily fluids and his long-lost love and to take power over the world. How Fraser and friends foil his attempt makes for plenty of good comic-book action.
This film had a lot more laughs than I expected. Even some of the action scenes included comic bits. The performances were good, and the special effects were pretty impressive, too. It's not an all-time classic, but it was much better than some newspaper reviews have said. We left the theatre smiling.
Note: We saw this at a matinee attended by some pretty small children, but I would not recommend it for anyone under about 12. (That PG-13 rating is not arbitrary.)