Product: The Mummy Returns [VHS] (2001)
Rating: 3.0
The Mummy Returns
After The Mummy's huge commercial success, a sequel was inevitable, and this is one of the better sequels of late, yet still succumbs to the old "bigger is better" rule, and hey, in the original we had an all-powerful villain, let's have two!The main star of part 2 is not Arnold Vosloo, as he was in the first instalment, but Dwayne John-oh sorry, "The Rock" as the scorpion king, a mighty warrior who turns up in the film as a shoddy CGI creation that smacks of "could've been better".But Arnold Vosloo, with more story to chew on this time around is great. Oded Fehr as Ardith Bay and Brendan Fraser manage not to get lost amidst the barrage of CGI and Rachel Weiz provides the eye candy but this time gets to kick some serious butt.The visuals and action (very loud) make up for the limp dialogue and overly complicated plot. The ending threatens to sink the whole film, with so much CGI it's easy to see it's fake, and the story starts to get very predictable and hokey. Regardless, it's good fun in a non-challenging way.