The Mummy Returns Rocks (Smell What I'm Cooking?)

Rating: 10/10 (15 October 2001)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I love this sequel to 'The Mummy'. It had everything, action, adventure, comedy, martial arts, great special effects and the basic cast from the first movie. Stephen Sommers is a great director and he & the casting director casted once again, a charismatic cast. I liked the cast a lot. From Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz to Arnold Vosloo and his Sports Illustrated model, Patricia Velazquez to Oded Fehr, John Hannah & the Rock. I even liked Freddie Boath (usually kid actors annoy me e.g. the Olsen Twins, Tina Majorina, the Culkins coz they're taught to overact. but Freddie pulled off a grand performance in my p.o.v.) and I also liked the 'This Box/Chest/Place is cursed!' guy. He was funny. I liked how the plot ran in with the first Mummy eg how Evie was Princess Nefertiri reincarnate and how her son was the chosen one and how Ardeth Bay, Jonathan Carnahan and Rick O'Connell were all the Pharoah's Guards in their pastlives. (You know, Jonathan to protect Evie from birth, Rick to protect her in love and Ardeth to protect them all). The only thing I reckon could have been done better was the death of Anck-Su-Namun. Did she really need to die like that... or even at all? The way Jonathan managed to get the Diamond at the end was expected and well done. It's just Anck-Su-Namun's death really was uncalled for but understandable.
All in all a great future classic, I give it a 8/10.