A good return

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2001)

Well first of all I must say that when I watched this movie, I was not in the movie mood. Not because somebody dragged me to the cinema to see this film, I simply couldn't pull it off to get in the right mood. I mean I would not have gotten into' this movie if I had one of them Last action Hero tickets'. But maybe all that just has me looking at the film a bit more objectively or maybe it just has me seeing some of its flaws better.

First of all I must say that in this film there is an almost uncountable amount of effects, way more than in the first part and I must say that the guy I was watching it with was right when he said: This was almost as full of effects as Star Wars Episode 1. That did no harm in this film though. There were actually only a few things that really did. First of all there is The thing with the message bird' that I think is not correct, for birds can only run messages around if the guy that is supposed to get them stays at one point and one point only. Second of all the (SPOILERS AHEAD???!!!) the figures made of sand by the boy are much too good and pretty and third of all I really dislike two scenes on the air transport. First scene is the Oh I want my son back  weeping' scene and the second is the flashback  falling scene'. It is only the almost falling that bugs me, for the rest it is a great scene. A thing I also disliked is, that I immediately knew Evelyn was going to be resurrected with the book of the dead, after she died (SPOILERS END!!!). Also I thought that the guy who played Jonathan did not do too well some times and really stank, just like the cheering scene of the good guards'.

That is it for the bad parts then (oh wait did I mention that Imotheps lady love was not as pretty as I thought she would be after that first glimpse in The Mummy + Rachel Weisz looked better in the original too). But that's only for shallow people and it is only my opinion and perhaps the only opinion of that kind in the world. Getting to the good stuff, the direction was good, the effects were good, the acting was good (except Jonathan (see above)). There were a couple of good jokes (some even mocking the genre (not quite as much as Scream though)) some of which were very obvious, while others were less (like the one in the beginning with all the scorpions in the mummy filled room). What I really liked though was the great music and the epic, emotional feeling the film sometimes delivered. This is a film that is at no times boring and even though I never really left the seat to become one with the characters, the story and the action I enjoyed this film

8 out of 10