A big effects movie, with poor effects

Rating: 2/10 (27 May 2001)

The Mummy Returns, what a load of rubbish. For a start, the cast, could they not have ditched the hugely annoying, massively wooden Brendan Fraser, has he ever acted well, or delivered a decent line, I think not. The woman was OK and the Kid, yuk, It sickens me. However apart from the awful script and the hideous acting, there is the effects. Admittedly, some of the effects on the main baddy character are quite nice, and the pyramids are ok, but when a film is billed as a effects movie, you expect some nice effects. The waterfall effects were awful, it looked like a 2 frame bitmap image! The army fight scenes, some of the scorpian arm were simply pasted on to the top of the battle scene so it looks like they were on top of the other people. The so called river Nile outside the pyramid, it was two totally separate scrolling images running past each other with no attempt at intergrating them, and and..... the list goes on, and don't get me started on the bloody hot air balloon....