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"The Mummy Returns"

Ok, the good things about this film:

Brendan Fraser
Mummified Pygmies

Everything else sucks.
And I mean EVERYTHING.
This is the worst example of Hollywood grabbing your money and yanking your pants down.

Imagine, if you can, someone telling the original movie to Cheatguru and letting him write the sequel.
It's THAT bad.

Why?

John Hannah. The most annoying man in the world, he has overtaken Hugh Grant on my sh*tlist.

Annoying movie kid - The kind you pray, beg and cry that something will rip him limb from limb. Please, anything..something kill this child.

Racheal Weiz - Dreadful, dreadful actress. Even is bad wearing very little and fighting.

Plot? Something about Scorpion King coming back to rule the world and Imhotep being the only person that can stop him.
Oh, except Fraser does with a big gold stick.

The effects were good, but that does not a good movie make.

Predictable in every fashion, every way.
Braveheart (sorry, it was another long-haired, face painted warrior leading his men into battle)..anyway, Braveheart stands there with thousands of goat-soldiers bearing down on them and you just know this is one of those "Boy, I hope they all turn to dust just as they reach us" moments.

And they do. Which was lucky.

Laughable villains, The Rock is in it for 5 mins at the start and then some refugee from a Ray Harryhausen movie at the end, you could do better with plasticine and sticky-back plastic.

Please, save your money and go rent Charlie's Angels if you want to watch pap.
The Mummy Returns is like watching Titanic, but with EVERY character played by Jar Jar Binks.

I would rather watch dogs copulating for 2hrs than sit through this again.

Save yourself.

the best bit has got to be when the pygmies are crossing the log and start fighting over the dynamite. i thought the rest of the film was good in a dont need to think laugh at the stupidity of it all kind of way

BORGDRONE wrote:
> the dwarf-mummies in the
> jungle attacked just like the raptors in the Lost
> World!!!

I don't remember the raptors running around with blow pipes.... ; )

I read that joke somewhere else yesterday....where was it?

Must admit, preferred the first Mummy film, at least it was more about said character - this sequel was too over complicated for its own good. And why did they have to repeat nearly all the same effects all over again? The columns in the temple/shelves in the library, the wall of water/ wall of sand and they even stoop so low as to nick ideas from other bad films - the dwarf-mummies in the jungle attacked just like the raptors in the Lost World!!!

Another thing... i`m starting to see a bad trend with this franchise, it goes like this...
THE MUMMY
THE MUMMY RETURNS
Does this mean we will next be treated to THE MUMMY FOREVER and then THE MUMMY AND ROBIN????????
I hope not!!!

What, The Mummy Returns or Secret Agent Club?

It's just you.

You actually enjoyed this movie?

"Imhotep is the only one that can save us"
Ok, so why did Fraser stop him with a spear?

"Boy, we're going to get hit by that water...I'll just use the jet-engines on this ship that I neglected to mention...for dramatic effect and stuff"

"I am the resurrection of some Egypt Princess"
"Uh-huh. Take your kit off"

It sucked the pony.

I saw a film yesterday with Hulk Hogan and someone from Sunset Beach. Before you ask, yes, it was on C5. Anway, they used a Teddy Ruxpin doll to record someones voice and get into a super-secret hideout.

I quite enjoyed it, on the 'leave brains at home' level, so some awesome special effects was all it needed.

Did the giant airship remind you of Teddy Ruxpin?

Or is that just me?

monkey_man wrote:
I
> loved it though - it brought back memories of Indy.


Oh dear.
Go watch Indy then, don't give them anymore money for this odious movie.

Please, nail your face to a table instead of watching this film,it's more fun.

I thought the Scorpion King looked more like something out of Xena. And also, how quickly does Tower Bridge open? Surely that must be some kind of record for an object of that size rising that quickly. And also, how does that bloke get fuel and gas for the balloon at the end? I thought that was why they couldn't use the balloon. I loved it though - it brought back memories of Indy.