Product: The Mummy Returns [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 5.0
A Good Movie and DVD - until the Ultimate Edition
Like the first movie, this is a great action/adventure film if you can suspend disbelief for 2 hours and 10 minutes. The special effects are incredible, especially during the huge battle scenes. The shear number of humans on horses or foot and enemy "beings" is staggering - It looks pretty real too.There is some slight pixelation during some dark scenes throughout the film when viewed using a progressive scan DVD player and a 16:9 progressive monitor. Overall, the transfer is OK to good in quality.The soundtrack is LOUD. Even though I wanted a DTS track too (it will be on the Ultimate Edition I'm sure), I'll be happy with the current Dolby Digital 5.1 track until then. There is no raised dialog normalization offset here: this soundtrack is just loud. This is the first of a hundred DVDs I've had to actually turn down my receiver a few notches from reference level just for myself, much less others that say all DVD movies at reference level are "too loud". Anyway; that aside, the soundtrack is great.This is not a great movie but it is pretty good one, like most "blockbusters" these days are.