When The Exaggeration was Scarier than The Mummy !

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2008)

The morning after (The Mummy) was released, its producers at (Universal) phoned its talented and diligent director (Stephen Sommers) asking him: "We need another one!". And the rest is history.. and foolishness as well!
It's not that bad at all. On the contrary, it tries to be bigger than the first one, achieving dazzling image, hot pace, being like vivacious comic book. However, while the first movie was a lesson in how to make a pure cinematic adventure full of action, thrill, comedy and imagination to the extreme, this one is weaker and less cohesive. I think, this time, it exceeded the extreme; and that was a problem!
Script wise, it was crowded. The long flashback in the movie's middle weakened the flow, there were too many storylines, and the dramatic logic of the whole thing was flimsy; for instances: Who's that modern girl with the soul of a "Anck Su Namun"?, how "Imhotep" did get his life back after being mortal in the first one?, how the scorpion king will destroy the world?!, moreover why did the god of evil betray him in the first place?!, well, it'll be so silly indeed to add also the historical corrections for the main story; but who cares? It's a crazy action fantasy after all; which became here a very brainless one too!
The CGI was hasty and embarrassingly needy sometimes. I see that its aspiration was more than the movie's abilities, and this is obvious at the visual momentum of the climactic sequences.
The outcome was a cross between (Indiana Jones) movies & (The Lost World - 1997), however heavy, vociferous, and a little poor. I know that I got a headache because of it. So its impressiveness fades away after the watching, and lessens as time goes by. Not like part one, (The Mummy - 1999), which is close to iconic "B" movie and still that young and entertaining till now, unlike its idiotically exaggerated sequel that destroyed itself by its own exaggeration.