"Home Alone" meets "Indiana Jones"

Rating: 5/10 (6 February 2002)

Somewhere in Hollywood, some guy made a pitch that goes like this: "Mummy was such a blockbuster hit! But we need to get the 5-12 year old crowd in order to sell all these action figures and lunch boxes. Lets do another Mummy Movie: Home Alone meets Indiana Jones! A wise-cracking kid will fend off evil mummies while his worried archeaologist parents try to find him before the end of the world happens."
This film had some good moments, don't get me wrong. I liked the pygmy scene, and the flashbacks to ancient Egypt. Those were great. But what was up with the constant making out between the O'Connells after every "rescue"? Come on, they've been married like 10 years or something...the flame is gone! Its a good thing Alex was with Ihmoutep or he would have probably said "Get a room, Mom and Dad!" Lets face it, Home Alone meets Indiana Jones didn't work in Star Wars Episode I (which was worse) and it doesn't work here!

I would have given this film a 7 but due to all the sappy kissing scenes I give it a 5.