Fun but irritating

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2001)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS First I have to point out a major inconsistency between this and the first film. Does anyone here remember Imhotep being completely removed fro the picture in the first movie? Yes? Then how come he somehow manages to be encased in this big lump of rock?
Anyway, credit due to Sommers for his knack of putting together silly plots as an excuse to induce some really exciting action sequences. I think this film also rank up there with The Phantom Menace (and the next 2 Star Wars movies) as one of the most SFX reliant movies made so far (not including completely computer animated stuff). The same goes for the music, which I thought was excellent and really in your face - credit to Alan Silvestri, who replaces Jerry Goldsmith from the last movie.
This movie is more comedy-orientated, and as a result lacks any of the feasibility of the first, which was better in my view. The plot is gets needlessly complicated along the way, loads of things cropping up like "He has the Sceptre of thingymabob" and "It's the magic box of watchamacallit". They crop up so much that there isn't much point in seeing this one if you haven't seen the first, for you would have no idea what they're talking about otherwise.
It also felt a tad too long, and the ending battle felt a bit dragged out, predictable, but the Scorpion King was interesting. And the movie was loud - VERY loud, the combination of the music and the shouting and the swords and whatnot making this volume possible.
Exhilirating spectacle it is - comparable to it's predecessor it's not.