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Summary: Entertaining and Thoroughly Enjoyable
Review: The Mummy gets updated in this adventurous special-effects-driven collection. This is an eye-candy in sets, special effects, stars like Brandon Fraser and Rachel Wiesz. Fast-paced action, smart alecky dialogue, and a sense of humor makes this collection fun to watch. Other recommendations: Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, and Spider-Man.
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Summary: A travesty
Review: The Mummy Returns is pretty much a disaster on every front.Unlike the first picture, which made generous but sensible use of computer-generated animations, this one seems dominated and finally over-powered by its effects. As a result, while the first movie was always anchored in the real world, this one feels strangely adrift. It also has too many expendable characters--none of them with the goofy appeal of cowardly bad guy Benny from the first movie--and, critically, it lacks any clear exposition to explain the whys and wherefores. I often had trouble keeping track of who was doing what and why. We have no sense of why the O'Connells are exploring the ruins at the outset. (They should have started the story at home with one of the wife's dreams). The movie backs into its story. The principals have acquired a roughly 10-year-old son, but O'Connell looks exactly as he did in the first movie and Evie actually looks more movie-star-ish and glamorous. There's also NO sense of attachment to the little boy, except when the script forces it down our throats. I never got the sense that they were part of the same family. And, very often, there is no sense of moment in this movie. As often hapens in movies these days, the fillmmakers seem to know what they want to do in individual scenes but not how to fit it all together. For instance, Evie has this huge past-life fight in her head while aboard the balloon in the movie's later stages, and then matter of factly lets the rest of the party in on it. Their blithe acceptance works to negate the entire prior scene. The Mummy's lover's spirit enters its reincarnated body--an oherwordly scene in the first movie--and the Mummy here reacts as though she'd just turned up late for a date. Just sad.
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Summary: The Mummy is Great
Review: The Mummy
When a 3000-year-old Mummy is resurrected, a legionaire, a librarian, and her sneaky, but cowardly, brother are off to stop him. It starts with a treasure hunt where the librarian Evelyn uncovers the Book of the Dead and accidentally uses a spell to bring back a mummy. Rick O'Connell, the legonaire, is then sucked into a campaign to save the world from his evil powers. They learn that they must use the Book of the Living to kill him, but finding it proves difficult.
This is a great adventure story with a great story, great characters, and great acting. This movie is also full of amusing jokes, which add to the fun of it all. The Mummy Returns
The mummy is back again, this time brought back to fight the Scorpion King, a man who, if defeated, will surrender his powerful army to the man who defeats him. Once again Rick and Evie are back to stop him, because if the mummy defeats the Scorpion King, he will use the army to destroy the world.
This movie is good, but not as good as the first one. It moves at a faster pace, but it sacrifices plot to do so. Still, it's a very enjoyable adventure.
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Summary: I was excited by the first one, blown away by the second!
Review: The only way to make the first one any better would be to add The Rock. even though he was only in it for a few minutes, those scenes were filled with excitment. Being a big fan of this one I have still not seen The Scorpian King which is suprising since I am such a big Rock fan.
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Summary: The Mummy and The Mummy Returns
Review: The popular 1999 remake of the Boris Karlof original THE MUMMY and it's sequel THE MUMMY RETURNS are put together in a nice 2-Disc set that has enough DVD extras to satisfy fans. Directed by Stephen Sommers (Deep Rising) THE MUMMY is a good-natured adventure in the spirit of Indiana Jones, albeit with a very angry mummy. The story is simalar to that of the original Hammer Horror Mummy movies of the 50's. A team of explorers searching for treasure in the hidden city of Hamunaptra unleash Imhotep, a high priest who goes about consumating a curse on all the people who have desicrated his tomb. It's great fun, and while there are some spooky moments, the general tone is humourous, and Brendan Fraser does the goofy hero thing, which makes it even more light-hearted. That said, it's very silly, but in the Summer when we got THE MATRIX and THE PHANTOM MENACE, this one held it's own to become a big box-office sucess and proved to be popular enough with audiences to warrant a sequel. The old "Bigger is better" rule was inevitable for the loud, nonsensical sequel THE MUMMY RETURNS. Set 10 years after the first one, this is one of the many sequels that tries to outdo it's predecessor with bigger bad guys and bigger SFX. This one, however is not nearly as fun as THE MUMMY. The characters are good, there are some impressive battle sequences, but the plot is predictable as they come, the special effects range from good to ropey (Scorpion King?) and the inane dialouge gets really tiresome after a while. In short, bigger isn't always better. In fact, it rarely ever is.
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Summary: It has large plot holes and so-so CGI, but it works......
Review: There are a lot of things wrong with both the Mummy and the Mummy Returns. Mostly that the screenplay for both movies needed a lot of work and writer/director Stephen Sommers was only able to do so much as both screenwriter and director, both movies have large holes in the plot (The first movie more so then the second film), both films also were rushed through production and a lot of the CGI effects were never quite finished. They needed a lot of additional work to make them look good and they never really do. Again the first movie has this more so then the second film. The one big difference between the two movies is that in the second movie, the actors played it with a bit more credibility and a few were given larger parts to play that they did not have in the first picture.
Also there is a big difference in the quality of the music scores. Jerry Goldsmith's score sounded a bit too bombastic and over drawn, where as Alan Silvesri's score for the second movie was a big improvement. The right combination of brass and woodwind instruments in an almost 100 piece orchestra. So of the two, I would say The Mummy Returns is better, more fun, and actually was better done then the first movie, even though both movies share a lot of faults in the way they did the production, so I would say go with The Mummy Returns.
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Summary: Horror and Comedy
Review: These 2 movies are good together. The second movie is even better than the first which is unusual. We have watched them as a family many times now, well worth the cost.
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Summary: The best Movies in the world!
Review: These are the best movies in the world. "The Mummy" is touching and thrilling. "The Mummy Returns" is funny, touching and thrilling too. See both of these movies and you will be thrilled of what you watched. These movies are not a waste of money if you buy them. You will have no choice but to Love them. See them both. You'll love it! Go and see both of them now!
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Summary: "The Mummy" & "The Mummy Returns" Review
Review: These were good movies. If you haven't seen them, you should! Even though it does have some goss stuff in it, it's still good. I think you will like "The Mummy Returns" because it has lots more action and not so much gruesome stuff in it. So before you see the second one, see the first! I'm Geoff and I hope this review was helpful to you!
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Summary: The Mummy under wraps
Review: Unlike the black and white Universal monster flick of the same name and basic story line, this MUMMY and its sequel are not horror films, rather adventures of the RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK genre. Director/Screenwriter Stephen Sommers approached both worsk with confidence and moves the stories along at breakneck speed like a plague of locusts never slowing down for plot exposition. The sheer speed also allows plot holes to fly by you undetected. Although the effects and approach have changed drastically, there are elements of both films that would fit in the 50s classic. But, where the classic is now static due to technological limitations, the CGI creations can accomplish great stuff, previously unimaginable. My bandages are off to the computer artists. Brendan Fraser is our hero Rick O'Connell and carries enough charisma to carry over into four other movies. Somehow, he is able to pull off even the most ridiculous dialogue. And his love-interest, Rachel Weisz is of the beautiful, bright British department, similar to Helena Bonham Carter. Her role changes drastically between the two films as the second presents her as more of a sexy adventuress. The second film aims for a younger audience, trading in the relentless gross out of its predecessor for a more family themed story. In fact, now that our two heroes are married and have an eight-year-old son, the story feels like a SPY KIDS adventure. Imhotep (Arnold Vasloo) is back and less treacherous in the sequel as we have a new source of evil, the Scorpion King played briefly by WWF wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Later, he is portrayed by a Computer generated scorpion/man. He is not as thrilling a villain as the mummy was in the first film, but that did not stop filmmakers from creating a spin-off film THE SCORPION KING. Both DVDs have great audio/video transfers as well as a treasure trove of extras including commentaries by cast and creators. Also, there is preview material for THE SCORPION KING. In that film, he speaks english... I want my mummy!
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