The Mummy Returns Movie Review Movie Review by Anthony Leong © Copyright 2001 Nothing redeemable about this sequel is enough to make us recommend it, so steer clear unless you really dare.The Mummy Returns Movie Review by Anthony Leong from The acting is somehow worse this time around, and add an inexperienced child actor into the mix and you've got a recipe for disaster. It's as if Sommers said, "well, we can't do any better, so this is what we have to go with." In addition, the film moves at a snails pace to its awful and underwhelming conclusion that it's hardly worth how long it takes to get there in the first place.Įxcept for a couple of entertaining action sequences, "The Mummy Returns" is a clunky, misguided mess of bad graphics and corny dialogue. We've never seen a director so openly throwing up their hands in acceptance of such mediocrity from their special effects crew.
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It's 1991's "Lawnmower Man"-level CGI, only a full decade's worth of technological advances later. The final conflict with the Scorpion King himself remains some of the worst CGI in a major motion picture and big time blockbuster we have ever seen. It is not just dated, it was bad even by 2001 standards. Rick exclaims, "Not these guys again!" Oh yes, these guys again. We also can't talk about "The Mummy Returns" without talking about how bad the CGI is. This is the most apparent during the scene on the bus where everyone is fighting against Imhotep's undead army. Instead of actual legitimate thrills and a few moments of horror, the sequel wants everything to be a massive slapsticky joke. The action sequences are much more goofy this time around. While he's not wrong, it's painfully obvious that we've seen this exact same movie, only done better two years earlier. Instead of being an average, sometimes thrilling action adventure, "The Mummy Returns" is quick to rely on multiple instances of Brendan Fraser calling back to the original film, hamming up how this is a complete rehash of that story and very little else.
While watching this movie for probably the first time since 2001, we couldn't help but feel it's less like a sequel and more like a self-referential parody. Once Imhotep is resurrected, Rick and Evelyn must find a way to stop him before he takes over the world. Though he only has a few minutes of actual screen time, this film was enough to catapult Johnson into the highly sought after star he is today. "The Mummy Returns" also marks the feature film debut of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, who plays The Scorpion King. Make no mistake, this is the only reason a child was added into the film in the first place. Their young son's shenanigans both save the lives of his parents and act as a catalyst for the events occurring in the film, depending on what the script requires in each scene. The two of them are now married, are both working as archaeologists and live in London. This is mainly done to add a plot device.oops, sorry, we mean a little kid into the story as the child of Rick and Evelyn, who are again played by Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz respectively.
Stephen Sommers returns as director to this installment that, though released just two years later, takes place eight or nine years after the events of first movie. "The Mummy Returns" is the sequel to 1999's "The Mummy," a guilty pleasure movie of ours.
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