The Mummy Returns [Blu-ray]

The Mummy Returns [Blu-ray]

The Mummy Returns [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Alun Armstrong, Arnold Vosloo, Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Patricia Velasquez
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
Composer: Alan Silvestri
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 230 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios

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Movie Review: My Mummy Done Told Me
Summary: 4 Stars

The Mummy Returns (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

This one is worth seeing. The characters are enjoyable (both the good and the bad guys) and Patricia Velasquez finally gets to do some serious acting. I'm not going to give away anything but let's just say if you're hoping for a chickfight between her and Rachel Weisz you probably won't be disappointed.

A lot of reviewers were negative on this film and I can understand they felt let down a bit. They'd already been stunned by the computer generated special effects in the first film and you won't see anything new in that way in this film (variations on a theme but nothing really NEW).

But we DO get a decent story, fine acting, great on-screen chemistry between our two stars (I didn't realize how great until I saw the third movie where they replaced Rachel with someone else as Evie and it just DIDN'T work at all. Mummy 3 is a clunker in a LOT of ways but without Ms Weisz there was none of the enjoyable interaction between her and Brendan Fraser that made this and the first one so enjoyable. And that would have helped make #3 more BEARABLE). Together Brendan and Rachel have a touch of that on-screen magic one sees when William Powell and Myrna Loy are on---or Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Maria Bello, though nice to look at and a good actress just wasn't right for the part. Bad casting ruined the last Mummy movie 3. Well, that plus a lousy script by Gough and Miller who should have stuck to playing Gough-- and crappy direction from Rob Cohen.

Sorry I got sidetracked but film three was just SO bad---the Tomb of the Dragon Emperor---it drags ON alright until the inevitable expected foreseen and unbelievably uninteresting by the time they reach it---ending.

THIS ONE is a CLASSIC buy it with confidence own it with pride display it with savoir-faire THE MUMMY RETURNS will never let you down.

Amaze your friends with trivia not found on IMDB (for instance, that Boris Karloff was Imhotep in the first Mummy movie back in 1932. But when he got his bandages off his name was Ardath Bey (here played by Oded Fehr) That in the Karloff film Ankh-es-en-amoun (loosely tranlated Life of Amoun---or Amoun-Ra) was NOT evil and was played by Zita Johann who died in 1993 but in her last film role she played a

LIBRARIAN (RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD 1986). And, of course, that's what Evie is when we first meet her.
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Summary of The Mummy Returns [Blu-ray]

An ancient legacy of terror is unleashed when the accursed mummy, Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), is resurrected - along with a force even more powerful: The Scorpion King (The Rock). Now, as the fate of all mankind hangs in the balance, Rick O'Connell (Fraser) and his wife Evie (Rachel Weisz) embark on a daring, desperate race to save their son - and the world - from unspeakable evil. The Mummy Returns is supercharged with pulse-pounding action and spectacular special effects that'll blow you away.
Proving that bigger is rarely better, The Mummy Returns serves up so much action and so many computer-generated effects that it quickly grows exhausting. In his zeal to establish a lucrative franchise, writer-director Stephen Sommers dispenses with such trivial matters as character development and plot logic, and charges headlong into an almost random buffet of minimum story and maximum mayhem, beginning with a prologue establishing the ominous fate of the Scorpion King (played by World Wrestling Federation star the Rock, in a cameo teaser for his later starring role in--you guessed it--The Scorpion King). Dormant for 5,000 years, under control of the Egyptian god Anubis, the Scorpion King will rise again in 1933, which is where we find The Mummy's returning heroes Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, now married and scouring Egyptian ruins with their 8-year-old son, Alex (Freddie Boath). John Hannah (as Weisz's brother) and Oded Fehr (as mystical warrior Ardeth Bay) also return from The Mummy, and trouble begins when Alex dons the Scorpion King's ancient bracelet, coveted by the evil mummy Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), who's been revived by... oh, but does any of this matter? With a plot so disposable that it's impossible to care about anything that happens, The Mummy Returns is best enjoyed as an intermittently amusing and physically impressive monument of Hollywood machinery, with gorgeous sets that scream for a better showcase, and digital trickery that tops its predecessor in ambition, if not in payoff. By the time our heroes encounter a hoard of ravenous pygmy mummies, you'll probably enjoy this movie in spite of itself. --Jeff Shannon

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