Don't let it return again, please.

Rating: 5/10 (21 May 2001)

It is a real atrocity that this movie would even be remade but even more of an atrocity that people will actually be flooding to see it. They will for the simple fact that it is big. Big in special effects to the point of overkill, I mean this bad-boy feels just like a computer game. The problem with a lot of computer games is that they don't have a plot, well dito for Mummy Returns.
It was evident from the first one that Sommers just hasn't got a clue how to write, I mean there are barely any standout moments of dialogue and the fact that it feels like the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is a bad thing. It feels like an infant has pencilled a few odd words and the whole thing has been jumbled around and strectched into a screenplay. There is simply no struture to the script, not plotting devices, no moments of dramatic tension and no reason for anything that does happen, to actually happen.
The film is bad to worse material. The ever reliable Brendan Frazer is, as ever, reliable. Weisz is OK but Hannah does a risible effort at comedy. There is no point in billing the rock up as he is blink and you'll miss him material. It is a crying shame that so much money should be heaped into such a lame and contrived piece of writing. Fear not though as it is not only writing which is haphazard but the direction itself. Whenever there seems to be some sort of motion to the piece there is an unneeded 10 minutes of slow silent nothingness.
I cannot help but be subjective because the objective opinion would probably make people feel as though this is a decent movie. After all special effects is the only two words which people need to be sold on a movie.