Just as the same as the original, but more action and a few laughs

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 2008)

"The Mummy Returns" is the sequel to the 1999 box-office sleeper starring Brendan Fraser as John O'Connell, a swashbuckling adventurer stealing many of the treasures of Egypt along with having to stop an evil un-dead God from taking over the world.
Six years pass as John is married to librarian/archaeologist lover Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) from the first movie where they are doing the same adventures where they have a son, Alexander (Freddie Boath), joining in on the action. Evelyn starts having visions where she pictures herself as this other person back in Egypt before discovering something deep in the caverns of one of their expeditions. The bracelet of Anubis is in the hands of the O'Connell's.
In another part of London, Blatus Hafez (Alun Armstrong) has his own agenda where he wants to raise Prince Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) back from the dead to awake the Scorpion King (The Rock) and unleash hell all over the world. Blatus gets help from Meela Nais (Patricia Valesquez) who bares a resemblance to Imhotep's girlfriend Anuk-Su-Namun from the first Mummy movie.
Along the way, Alex is kidnapped by Blatus's goons where they believe the parents will give when the bracelet of Anubis is handed by them.
John Hannah brings comic relief as Johnathan Caranhan, Evelyn's brother, and gets involve in more action scenes. Oded Fehr returns as Ardeth Bay, the anti-hero from the first movie who plays a much larger role than in the original where he's more of a hero and ally.
It's good fun, but it takes too much formula of the original movie from the special effects, including a water chase sequence that looks like the sand chase from the first movie. There's also a character in the film called Izzy where his name sounds like a derivate of Beni just like in the original. There's more screams and surprises than in the original where there's hardly any laughs despite one or two scenes.