I laughed my head off

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2001)

I find it hilarious that people actually expected this film to have some sort of redeeming value greater than that of the first Mummy. Why should it? All the filmmakers did with Mummy Returns was cash in on what worked in the first movie. There was more of everything: more heros, more villians, more effects, more mummys, more locations, and enough plot twists to sink the Titanic twice. Still, it was all in good fun. I laughed my head off at the cheesy dialogue the actors were forced to say, as well as at a lot of the situations. Maybe the things I laughed at weren't intentionally funny, but the movie still left me highly entertained, and well worth the hour and a half i spent in line for it. I was disappointed, however, in the cop-out wall of water effect. If the movie makers were going to cash in on the sand from the first movie, they could have at least made it visually believeable. It worked when it was sand. It was simply annoying as water. The scorpion king climax also left something to be desired... CG people have yet to be perfected. Other than that, the movie contained everything I expected: cheese, cheese, and more cheese. I went into it knowing I wasn't going to discover the meaning of life just by watching the movie, and wasn't disappointed in that respect at all. It makes for a nice start to the summer of the sequel. Let's hope it's not all downhill from here, there are a lot more to come.