Great sequel!

Rating: 10/10 (2 May 2001)

The CGA is incredible throughout the movie. Amazing... until the very end, (you'll know what I mean when you see the movie). I thought they could've done a better job with it (at the end, of course) and I was kind of disappointed. I also was quite happy that they didn't deny that it was, in fact, a sequel. In most sequels, it's either overkill with referrences to the last movie or they try to out do the first one and make little to know referrence at all. It was cute the way things tied in. Also, you don't necessarily have to see the first Mummy to understand the second. It helps to understand the inside jokes and you might notice the reason for a few things that were in the first one (ex: why Rick wears the leather gauntlet type thing on his arm) -- but it's not really a big deal. This one is all about action, rarely does the scene ever drag. There's enough going on to keep the audience in their seats for a couple of hours.
ONE thing bothered me though, and this is coming from someone who is very observant... Brendan Fraser's character had an egyptian eye "tatooed" between his index finger and his thumb (I forget which hand right now) -- WHERE DID IT GO? It couldn't have possibly faded in TEN YEARS, could it? That bothered me because I thought that was a really neat place to have a tatoo. Maybe it was a "mirage..."?