Too Much to pay attention to the movie!

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 2001)

Overboard on special effects, The Mummy Returns doesn't give itself a chance to develop a story. There is too much action going on in this movie. One can't focus on anything else except fight scene after fight scene. The coreography is excellent, but doesn't seem to fit into place for 1933. At times I felt like I was watching the Matrix. I don't think this movie was made to follow the excellent first entry. This one was made to make money, and to spend money. I'm not saying I didn't like it...But it just didn't want to develop a story like the first.
Several of the original cast return, set 9 years after the first film...Here we have Rick and Evie Married with a young, wise-cracking son...Imothep is resurrected again by what would appear to be some kind of cult devoted to him. He is brought back to destroy the Scorpion King, take over Anubis's army and destroy the world. Okay, so that is all good, but nothing too great.
This film floods the audiences eyes with scene after scene of Computered created images in almost every frame. From mummies, to piggmies, to a giant Scorpion/Man thing that looks really really bad. I know they probably spent alot on the effect, but it wasn't pulled off to great.

Weighing too heavy on the shoulders of Sensationalism, this movie can't compete with the first on any level except the effects. The character of Imothep is almost wasted--he isn't nearly has evil as in the first.
I also found plothole after plothole: Where did Ank-su Namn come from? Why was the Mummy in that cocoon? who were these people that brought him back? If Evie was the descendant of the Pharoaphs daughter, then why didn't Imothep notice this in the first one? Why would he be trying to kill her to bring his lover back to life--Through her? Alot goes unanswered in this movie. But, just rest your laurels, leave you brain at the door, and enjoy the spectacular visuals, and have fun
7 out of 10