Product: The Mummy Returns [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 5.0
What did you expect?
The backlash against "The Mummy Returns" has been loud and harsh, and I can't help but wonder why. What did everyone think this movie was going to be like? The original "Mummy" was no work of art, no feat of great cinema. But it was fun. Lots of fun. "The Mummy Returns" is even more fun, dare I say the best film of its kind since the last time Indiana Jones cracked his whip. It's brash, heroic, corny, cliched, overblown, overlong and loud. And I love every damn minute of it. Roger Ebert said that "The Mummy Returns" is a bad popcorn movie and that "Tomb Raider" was a good popcorn movie, and that it was his job to know these things. Apparently, Ebert isn't doing his job as well as he used to.