When he's kidnapped early on by baddies in search of a bracelet that will resurrect the Scorpion King, Rick and Evelyn seem about as concerned as the audience, who knows that he'll be rescued well before film's end. Everyone's but a hired hand meant to kill time between explosions and setpieces and battles that pit the living against the undead. It's pointless to encapsulate the plot, because there isn't much of one. The Mummy Returns is that sequel that's simply unnecessary, a movie that exists only to take your long green without giving anything in return. When The Mummy Returns mints a fortune, we'll no doubt get a third installment in which all the actors are computer-generated, replaced by ones and zeroes.
Audiences get what they deserve.
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