Product: The Mummy Returns [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 1.0
"The Mummy Returns", ...lets hope for the last time.
If the script writers of this atrocity were more that twelve years old, I would be very surprised. I don't understand why these film makers take good ideas and turn them into STUPID movies. They spend a fortune on special effects, actor salaries and marketing, then they get lousy screenwriters. Why? This movie was an insult to my intelligence. They figure if they bombard you enough with effects and action that you will forget that there is no plot or character development. To add insult to injury they throw in some wise-cracking kid that isn't the least bit funny. In one scene this kid is face to face with Imhotep. This guy is menacing, loud and has a decomposing body. Does the kid act scared? No, of course not. He looks at this living corpse and tells him that "my dad is going to kick your @ss." Wow, that was really believable and funny. Not. Then you have the airship with jets on it. That was years before they had discovered jet power. Oh, and I love the scene where Brandon Frasier is out running the rising sun to get his kid into the ancient ruins before sunrise. He would only have to be running at 186,000 miles per second to do it. You never once get a sense of danger or that anyone of the inane characters will get even the slightest bit injured. All in all this movie is just another routine special effects festival with no substance.