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Summary: Gooooooooooooood Movie
Review: This movie is way better than the Mummy. The Mummy was good but this one is awsome. It has great actors and actresses. When Rachel Wiez got stabbed it looked like she really was dyieing if you miss this movie you'll regret it.
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Summary: 2 1/2 hours of my life - gone forever.
Review: To start, well, the first movie was pretty good, great action sequences, and for the most part pretty believable, so I had high hopes for The Mummy Returns. 2 1/2 hours later, I wanted my money back. I thought it was awful, being it had such promise to it. Why did I think it was bad? Here we go...1. The story was corney, when the heros weren't busy floating around Egypt in a hydrogen blimp/ship they were battling pygmy warriors, PYGMY WARRIORS, what? What a load...! They shot blow guns, what did that have to do with Egypt? 2. Special effects, pretty cool, until the final fight scene, I thought the Scorpion King looked like stop motion film, I could have sworn I was watching old Jason and the Argonauts footage. Thats about it, anyone else who says they liked the movie probably liked it because The Rock was in the movie, who cares!
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Summary: Take it for what it is, already!
Review: "The Mummy Returns" is almost exactly like its predecessor...a fun, exciting, FX-filled joyride full of beautiful people with great one-liners. I still liked the first movie better, but I got to stare at Brendan for a few hours, so I was pleased! :) The story line is pretty good; I liked how they made Evvie and Anuk-(won't try to spell the rest) enemies from a past life. I thought their weapons were so cool that I bought a pair of sais (similar item) a week after I saw the movie! The only problem I had with the characters was that Rick and Evvie seemed concerned only with the welfare of one another, and not that of their little boy. I'm assuming this was done to make the kid seem even cuter, as a little adult. This flick was what it was meant to be...F-U-N. I wish people would realize that fiction...is fictional! ... Anything can happen! Just relax and enjoy it! (By the way, the Dolby in the theater totally rocked this film!)
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: I thought the movie took way too long, and it had pretty much no plot. Yeah the special effects were great and Brendan Fraser always is good. But I was very dissappointed in the quality of the movie. It had absolutely nothing to do with the first one, and it drug out way too long. So to sum it all up I think this movie pretty much sucked, and I am still kickin myself in the [behind] for actually paying money to go see it. Wait for the video.
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Summary: So This is What Will Happen to Cinema of the Future
Review: ... which is that video games will colonize movies. CGI effects in this movie vacuumed big time. I suppose all the reviewers who loved the "special" effects in this film did so not because they work toward verisimilitude, but because they remind them of their video games. In other words, the effects do not even bother to look "real." "The Rock" reincarnated as a gigantic scorpion for instance, looked nothing remotely like a person or an insect... it looked exactly like a computer screen saver graphic, but nobody around me in the theater minded. In fact, this alleged "movie" appears to be a larval form of an audience-interactive videogame on big screen that will surely emerge in the very near future and replace so-called Hollywood blockbusters. Then we won't have to endure execrable script, horrendous acting, stupid editing, etc. etc., just play the game and be done with it. The only good thing about the movie was Arnold Vosloo, who endows Imhotep with some dignity. Oh yes, the MUMMY movie I would have loved to see: Vosloo unleashes a plague of locusts that eat Fraser, Weisz and their ANNOYING ANNOYING ANNOYING KID alive VERY SLOWLY, reunite with Patricia Velasquez, conquer the British empire and rule the Western world. Henceforce all reviews in the youknowwhere would have to be written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. End of the Movie.
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Summary: Be-vare of the Curse: "Mummy Returns" plagued by Sequelitis
Review: Sometimes a sequel does justice to the original. Other times...well...it doesn't. This latter occasion is where we find ourselves with "The Mummy Returns", the ambitious follow-up to Stephen Sommers' spectacular and financially successful 1999 offering "The Mummy". It is a victim of sequelitis, a condition caused by a studio's demand to fast track a sequel in order to capitalize on the first film's success. This happens at the expense of the screenplay, actor preparation, and post-production turnaround. Everything about "The Mummy Returns" is bigger, from budgets to sets and scope of story. Both "Deep Rising" and "The Mummy" proved that Sommers has a knack for mature storytelling that appeals to the youthful side of adult audiences, the same skill that helped George Lucas craft "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Sommers also opted to develop the story like "The Empire Strikes Back", presuming audience familiarity with all the returning characters and unabashedly self-referential to events in the first film. That's how Stephen Sommers wanted it, and there is absolutely nothing the matter with that. Unfortunately, the release window for the film did not allow Sommers to draft a script worthy of his vision. "The Mummy Returns" is, at best, a collection of vividly imaginative sequences, appealing humor, and thrilling cliffhangers. The problem, though, is that there is nothing beneath the glossy surface that allows the audience to connect with and care about either the story or the characters, save for the most inspired writing in the film - that being the scenes involving the kidnapped Alex, son of Rick and Evie. Even some of that gloss remains rough and unpolished, especially during the last moments of the film when a large CGI creature is rendered so poorly that a Ray Harryhausen model would have been better. Perhaps the most symbolic element of the film's failings is Sommers' cinematography this time around. For his combat scenes, Sommers employs the chaotic camera motions made famous in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Gladiator". The effect fails completely here, rendering what might have been some excellent duels, shoot-outs or whatnot into senseless, irrelevant blurs. Sommers had a surefooted style he brought to his earlier works, but abandons here, no doubt feeling the pressure to create a "hit". Ultimately, the problem with "The Mummy Returns" is the fact that it could have and, with more time, would have been a much better film. Even beyond its disappointments, the film gets a three-star rating based solely on the many wonderful characters Sommers created and the actors who pull off the roles so well. There is much to commend about "The Mummy Returns", but the film it might have been will remain forever shrouded in the realm of "what if". Shame on the studio system for rushing this film out. The strengths of Sommers' previous movies were the smart script and tight, well-paced plot. Let's hope he lets his next screenplay/project stay buried a little longer before digging it out.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I would like to write an enthusiastic and kind review of the Mummy Returns, but I can't. My wife and I loved the film The Mummy, and awaited the release of the seqel the Mummy Returns thinking how brilliant it would be. How dissapointing to find that the writers couldn't muster the imagination to have a totally new adversory for the O'Connells, reviving Imotep was Ok, but in the first film he was convinced upon meeting Evie that she was Anuksun Amor (Is that how it's spelled?) and was going to use her to bring her soul back, so how come he knew her as the Pharoes daughter in the sequel? Why use the same gags that were really funny first time around again in the second film? There were other minor plot changes from the first film too - Rather like the gaffs in the late eighties with the Highlander films. If the original plot in the first film is so good (and it was) why change it for the sequel. Save your money and go see something really good like Cast Away
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Summary: You should see it!
Review: I loved this movie! It has a lot of the same charaters as The Mummy, and new people. I loved the effects and the adventure. It has the Rock in only a few scenes, but that's fine with me. It is a lot like the old movie. You get to know what happened to Rick and Evy, which I won't say here! If you liked The Mummy, then you'll love The Mummy Returns!
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Summary: This movie is GREAT!
Review: The best part about The Mummy Returns is that it just assumes people have seen The Mummy. That movie had something of a slow start, but that was understandable because the audience going in had no idea who anyone was or what was going on. However, this sequel avoids the trap so many other sequels have fallen into by not wasting any time explaining things that were already explained in the original. This alows for an absolutely nonstop pace and action that never lets up. I am even tempted to say it joins Aliens and Terminator 2 as sequels better than the originals.
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Summary: Unexpectedly pleased
Review: When I first found out that another Mummy movie was being released, I was annoyed. "What could they possibly do with this?" I asked myself. But my curiosity led me to see the movie. I was unexpectedly very pleased. Unlike most sequels, this number two was just as good, if not better than the first. It begins with the legend of the Scorpion King, this is not the film to miss the first ten minutes of to get popcorn or soda. My friend missed the first ten minutes and never quite figured out what the Scorpion King had to do with anything despite my attempts to explain. Rick an Evelyn are now married and have a son. The three of them are the three corners of an ancient legend set into action thousands of years ago and each must fulfill his or her part. Imhotep and Anak Su Namun are also back with the original actors doing an excellent job. The movie was nonstop action mixed with legends and beliefs that even if you don't share, make the movie even more interesting. Not too many of the jokes were the same as in the first film, just enough to make them funny if you recognized them. Although this is not the kind of movie that will ever win an oscar, it is the type of movie you want to see if you just want to have fun.
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