Product: The Mummy Returns [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 5.0
A TRUE ROLLER COASTER, ACTION NON STOP
This is I think the only movie you can call a Roller Coaster, the action never stops, and when it slows down, all that wonderful cast makes it funny, at lest the comic characters. So, the cast, this is Brendan Fraser at his best, funny, not dumb like in the bomb George of the Jungle, plus a good action hero, he kind of reminds me of Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones sometimes, as the whole movie does. Rachel Weisz is both beautiful and a great actress, plus a very enjoyable character, an in this Mummy she had her kicks, plus looked more beautiful. Arnold Vooslo is a great bad guy, because he is a bad guy in love, a thing that had not been done for a long time. John Hannah is very funny, although he is a very stereotypic character, he is still fun to watch, is not his fault that the character has been played so many times, he tries to keep it fresh. Oded Fehr is good, not a sidekick, another important character played nicely. Freddie Boath was a surprise, at the beginning he gives the impression of a truly lame character and performance, but the movie continues and he evolves into a very funny and not lame and corky like most child characters are always, here is something George Lucas should learn when putting a kid in his movies, specially if that kid will be Darth Vader, Freddie would have done a much better job in playing Anakin. Patricia Velasquez is not as great as the other, but still, she is a newcomer and she is going on the right track. And the Rock, well, he looks like he is the master of the ring, but not the master in front of the camera, thank God he has a very, very, very short part, he only appears in the beginning, at the end his face appears, but as an animatronic, not his real face. Let's hope he took acting lessons before doing The Scorpion King, the upcoming prequel to The Mummy, which trailer is included in the DVD, which is very good, the menu has a very smart animation, plus the special features are nice as well, with good sound and picture, The Mummy Returns DVD is a very complete edition, and is not even a special edition, here is for Paramount to learn how to make a DVD, kudos Universal for bringing out a good edition for this movie, although, I did not like that you have to watch both the trailer for The Scorpion King and the Universal movies in DVD trailer when you want to se the movie, same thing for The Mummy Ultimate Edition, they should make in the future a trailer for the special features and leave the movie alone. But still, that is not a huge problem, the movie is very good, very fun to watch, not a movie for people who like to think too much, no, a movie for normal people who sometimes just want a good old adventure film like Indiana Jones, Stephen Sommers is a good director, because although this might not be the smartest movie, it sore was something connecting the two Mummies like he did in this one. Watch both and see my point.