The Mummy Returns (2001)
#58 on my Top 100 List
This movie takes place 9 years after the first one - Rick and Evelyn are married and the characters do manage to retain their chemistry. Their son, Alex, gives Jonathan a nice character counterpoint and the latter seems to fit better in this one than in the first one. The prologues in these two movies are my favorite parts - in the first one, it follows Imhotep and Anck-su-namun in their forbidden love and in the second one, it shows the Scorpion King as he makes his deal with the god Anubis. Plus Oded Fehr narrates both of them and he's sort of like Matthew Goode - I could listen to him talk forever. This movie, though, also goes back to the story of Imhotep and Anck-su-namun as well to show more of the details of their lives, which also of course affect our heroes. The attention to detail in both plot and design in the Ancient Egypt sequences I think surpasses the rest of the movie. Of course there are some problems - there were no sais in Egypt and the reincarnated princess/Medjai thing is a little far-fetched - but it's great fun. And in the end, the audience ends up feeling bad for Imhotep as he loses the one thing that was the reason for his cursed existance.
My Netflix rating: 5 stars
You forgot to mention the sequence where the sun rises but somehow illuminates the valley in reverse. The first two are pretty awesome though - I avoided the third one.
ReplyDeleteThat was in the first one. I saw the third one...it was awful.
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