WAS THIS TRYING TO OUTDO STAR WARS T.P.M?

Rating: 5/10 (11 July 2001)

I went in expecting a little more than I would of a movie of this S.F.X-laden genre. Unfortunately I was expecting a wee bit too much. I didn't like the first Mummy, so hoped this Sequel would better it - and it did, C.G.I wise! But the story is so lame, boring and cliche-ridden one must have all brain cells surgically removed (or maybe the whole brain!), or try not to think (and confuse oneself) about the events of the first movie.
WARNING! MUMMIFIED SPOILERS!
The plot revolves around our two main characters, she being the reincarnation of an Egyptian pharoah's daughter and he being the Saviour of the world (say what??). This is pretty hard to grasp unless you suspend all disbelief. Question: How come Imhotep (the Mummy guy) doesn't recognize her in the first movie??
There is so much action scenes they become boringly tedious and the sound (which was cranked up to max in my theater) was absolutely hideous. To hear stuff scream (and there is a LOT of stuff screaming in this flick) at 200 decibels is rather pain-inducing. The anubis army charging over the sand dunes in their thousands is too much like the droid armies in Star Wars T.P.M. We also borrow ideas from Indiana Jones, but this doesn't 'make it', because the overuse of fake C.G.I is SO obviously fake.
Hollywood End Acts are becoming mandatory these days. We have the just-escaped-by-the-skin-of-the-teeth-from-certain-death scene. Not once, but several times! We are even subjected to the good-guy-dies-but-is-brought-back-to-life cliche. Oh puhleeeeeze!!!! No more brain numbing cliches! But wait - there's more.
Dear Hollywood: Audiences DO have IQ's above sea level. There is absolutely nothing wrong with adding a story to truck-loads of C.G.I effects. HONESTLY!!!