excellent sequel close in quality to the first one

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2008)

I have and continue to describe the first "The Mummy" as one of the quintessential action-comedy movies of all time. The sequel, featuring the return of the most important cast members, called "The Mummy Returns" is a follow-up that is additionally very good, full of intelligence and humor that combines elaborately and with effectiveness, and has its fair share of action sequences and fights of all kinds. Like its predecessor, "The Mummy Returns" never gets dull or boring and although it is still just lots of fun, most of it silly fun, is highly entertaining for this reason.
Most of the traits that make "The Mummy Returns" effective are described in my review of the first "The Mummy" so I will not begin to restate them again and just advise readers to check the aforementioned review for my ideas on why I think this film and the one before it are excellent and good enough to be called quintessential action-comedies. "The Mummy Returns", in short, is well-paced, full of action, has intelligent and well-acted laughs, a great cast of characters, sword fights, gunfights, fist fights, doesn't become too serious in any of its traits, is not too scary or frightening, and although not as good as the original, is still very fun to watch.