how horribly and sickeningly convenient...

Rating: Null/10 (6 June 2001)

When I went to see The Mummy Returns, I expected great special effects, action, and good summer movie fun. I guess, if those were my expectations, I wasn't disappointed - at least, I shouldn't have been. But this movie had me laughing through the entire two hours, and it wasn't at the jokes. The writing is horrible; the audience was smashed over the head repeatedly with all-too-convenient plot twists, cliched dialogue and predictable situations. Maybe I'm being too harsh - no one expects a movie like this to be thought-provoking, and I'm always up for some mindless movie fun. But this was not only mindless, I could feel it sucking the intelligence from my own exasperated brain. I couldn't hold back the laughter at many of the attempted serious moments; the whole movie would have been better if the sub-plot (or lack thereof) of the family Kodak moments had been left out completely. Supposedly heart-warming scenes had me desperately trying not to laugh - I didn't want to ruin the movie for everyone else. But the plot did that on it's own.