The movie is one big rackety jolt. You half expect the pyramids to come to life and poke the heroes or at least do a sprightly jig. Problem is, unless you're afraid of going deaf, none of this is the least bit frightful. The monsters are so obviously computer generated that it seems what Fraser really needs to fend them off is a giant delete button. Everything is self-reflexive yuks.
Fear is buffered by one more wisecrack before death.
Sommers is going for sweat-soaked laughs. It's a shame he rarely gets them. His proficient direction has comic bounce but his writing is mummified. Fraser gets stuck with moldy quips that always misfire. Well, I hate lazy screenwriting and had to wonder what a polish by a funny writer like Paul Rudnick could have done for the script.