You don't deserve this.

Rating: Null/10 (20 June 2001)

This film is a cynical waste of everybody's time, and we should stop passively accepting this kind of trash with comments like "Its only entertainment, its not trying to be Citizen Kane". Orson Welles' career was crippled by studios who shunned his work in favour of more commercial fodder. Until audiences start motivating film-makers to put some thought into movies before throwing us a scrappy sequel to shut us up till next summer, The Mummy Returns is all we're going to get. Why do they assume that, because we all liked the first movie, that we want to see a sequel crammed with more of everything? There's no room for all these characters, action scenes, (poorly-rendered) CGI and noise. We are not stupid, and film's like this are an insight into how little the major studios really think of us. Even if you thought it was good fun, you deserve better. This is s**t. It will always be s**t. And you are champagne.