They finally got the comic book movie right

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2001)

It sure took Hollywood enough tries to get it. Mummy-1 was just such a failure, all special effects but with an unengrossing storyline that passed outside the borders of even comic book credibility.
In Mummy Returns, they nailed it just right and gave us a thoroughly enjoyable summer popcorn movie. But don't bring the little ones, too much gore and scariness for
the six and unders.
The scene where Neela fails to find the courage to rescue her man, when Nefertirri has just rescued hers, so that doom falls to the selfish and victory to the courageous, well, if that isn't old Stan Lee at his best, then what is? You could just see the panels when Patricia Velasquez chooses poorly!
Batman (the 1989 Original) was much more than a comic book movie. Tim Burton took his Magna Opus all the way up to
art film. And the enjoyable Superman-1 was a successful flick but director Donner took the camp route to entertainment. It worked but it was no longer a real comic book film. And
Night Shamalayan's Unbreakable was also much more than a mere comic book movie.
Think of all the failures. The Batman and Superman sequels. The Conan films. The "B" movies with "B" stars.
Here they got it right. It flows like a comic book, has the action, the characters, the plot, the moral at the end. If you hate comic book movies, you won't like Mummuy Returns. If you like them but have been disappointed, perfection is waiting for you.