mind numbingly awful, badly scripted, terrible story and poorly acted

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2001)

i enjoyed the first one as a tongue in cheek funny adventure in the style of indiana jones but taking itself even less seriously. The second completely failed to recognise everything that made the first film any good and was just a hodge podge of ludicrous scenes, immense holes in the plot and a story line that seemed to be being made up as it went along. The script was mind numbingly bad, the actors had immense trouble with their dialog and some scenes they struggled so badly it was obvious they were people struggling to bring a role to life. And the addition of the kid was excruciatingly bad. I've yet to see if it was the same director on both films, but obviously whoever had control of it was given a shedload more money than they knew how to handle but wanted to spend it all anyway. Some elements of the CGI were good but it was all sensory input and utterly devoid of substance. It fails on all levels, even as a fantasy action adventure.
The scariest thing is that after nearly 3000 votes, IMDB user rating is 7/10. That above all makes me mourn humanity.