Product: The Mummy Returns [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 3.0
Not even close to the first, but still fun.
This movie had possibilities. It started out pretty good, but somewhere along the way it got lost in itself. It's not the story, and by that I mean the plot. It's the direction and by that I mean the flow and ridiculousness of it all. The movie suffers big time at the end. It was trying to be more than it was. It was trying to be epic, after more than an hour of silliness (including jet-engined hot air balloons and pigmy living dead).Still if you can get past all that it does have some of the charm of the first movie and you do find yourself rooting for the heroes to win, and laughing a little along the way (mostly at things that were supposed to be funny).If you liked the first you may or may not like this one. I found myself nearly hating it in the theater, but enjoying it more the second go around at a friends house, enough so that I bought it to watch it a third time and even a forth.