stupid, when it should have just been silly

Rating: 3/10 (13 June 2001)

Good Lord. Even by the standards of the genre this is a waste of time, money, and a cast who should know better. Where 'The Mummy' was silly but fun and had some witty dialogue, 'The Mummy Returns' is a series of disjointed special effects shots, tied together by a plot which, once you've made the effort to figure out what's going on you wonder why you've bothered. There isn't one decent line of dialogue in the film. The couple's child speaks (as does almost every child in every film, to be fair) as though he was written by a 40 year old. Don't get me started on the multitude of gaffes and logical chasms. ***Potential spoiler by way of an example*** : Men cannot run faster than light, even if they have the physique of Brendan Fraser.