Too much stuff, not enough time

Rating: 4/10 (29 May 2001)

"The Mummy" had a certain 'classic' feel to it. The film was a lot like the "Indiana Jones" series, though "The Mummy" was much more airheaded. There was also a good balance of special effects, character development and story advancement. In "The Mummy Returns" director Stephen Sommers thought for some reason it would be a good idea to scrap everything good from the first one and fill the sequel with tons of special effects and action sequences, to distract the viewer from realizing that this movie wasn't very good. The action overload gets quite overbearing after the first 35-40 minutes and just becomes tiresome about halfway through, at which point I considered leaving but decided to give it the MST3K treatment instead.
The only good parts of the movie were actor Oded Fehr and actress Rachel Weisz (who looked oh so beautiful in this film). It just wasn't very good and the last battle with 'The Scorpion King' was so ridiculous. *1/2 out of 4 stars.