We Now Return to the Same Movie. Sort of.

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2013)

How on earth can one movie have such an impact, please so many people, make so much moneythat they honestly believe spending a buck fifty on special effects for the follow-up is a good idea?
The special effects, namely The Rock's Scorpion King, was so bad in The Mummy Returns, I honestly couldn't get past it. Yes, I know FX doesn't make the whole movie experience, but these were so comical, so cartoonish – and even in 2001 – that the movie was more of an unintentional comedy that the humor it tried hard to produce.
The movie is, in fact, bookended by the worst special effects, namely the laugh-out-loud pasted on Rock's head finale, but the overall movie was so much a recap of the original 1999, that I barely remembered I was watching the sequel.
Granted, they decided the best way to make more money or milk this franchise dry like the deserts its set in, is just to rehash everything from The Mummy (1999.) In fact, the only thing that really changed was the transformation of the actual "mummy" took mere seconds when the first film took much more efforts from the characters.
The basic plot revolves around a soul-selling warrior – a la Scorpion King, the new adventures of the new O'Connell family and the Mummy's Revenge, sort of.
Look, I've only seen this movie once in theatres in 2001 and just one more time about a week ago. I've put off the review until now and I've seemed to forget everything that happened in this movie, aside from a fairly decent car/bus chase scene I did like, set in London and the atrocious and hilarious Scorpion King finale. One that was so bad, I never bothered with the spin-offs. Even if they advanced in CGI, I seriously couldn't care less to revisit that character.
This doesn't fair well for this movie. If it's so unmemorable in less than one week, it doesn't get any kind of recommendation from me.