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The Mummy Returns (2001)

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 139
Fresh: 66 | Rotten: 73

In The Mummy Returns, the special effects are impressive, but the characters seem secondary to the computer generated imagery.

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 18

In The Mummy Returns, the special effects are impressive, but the characters seem secondary to the computer generated imagery.

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Movie Info

This big-budget sequel from writer/director Stephen Sommers navigates much of the same cliffhanger territory as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones franchise. It is 1933, eight years after the events of The Mummy (1999). Legionnaire Rick O'Connell Brendan Fraser has married his Egyptologist girlfriend Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) and the couple has settled in London, where they're raising their young son Alex (Freddie Boath). The family's domestic tranquility is shattered when

PG-13, 2 hr. 9 min.

Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Stephen Sommers

Written By: Stephen Sommers

In Theaters: May 4, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Oct 2, 2001

Box Office:$200.7M

Universal Pictures

A piss-poor mummy movie indeed that doesn't deliver a damn thing worth preserving.

June 4, 2001 Comments (2)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

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A bully follow-up to the 1999 international smash

May 11, 2001 Comment

David Hunter

Hollywood Reporter

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The sequel does little more than repeat the need-a-bigger-boat jokes, triple the digital effects, and forget entirely about the old Universal B-movies.

May 8, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

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There's more than a little unintentional humor in the picture.

May 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Susan Stark

Detroit News

Top Critic

Fitfully entertaining.

May 4, 2001 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

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Yes, many of the visual effects are stunning, but others are downright cheesy.

May 4, 2001 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Rita Kempley

Washington Post

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Very violent, mostly in comic-book terms.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

More or less a wholesale recycling of the 1999 original.

April 4, 2010 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

...a computer generated stinker of a dud.

July 20, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

The whole two-hours-plus affair just soars along, brainlessly and breathlessly.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

The film's bloated ambition seems of a piece with its panting, happy-dog charm. [Blu-Ray]

August 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

The mummy may, but the audience shouldn't.

July 21, 2004 Comment (1)

Martin Scribbs

Low IQ Canadian Source: Low IQ Canadian

The Mummy Returns isn't concerned with character development or plot; it exists simply to please the audience with massive amounts of eye-candy.

August 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

With a few extra zeros on the budget this time around, Sommers runs riot.

May 22, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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Harry Guerin

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Feels like so much scrap metal picked up off the factory floor at the place where they made the first one.

April 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

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Sequel to the Mummy. Their son starts a chain reaction that brings back the Scorpion King from the underworld. Good action movie with special effects.

August 4, 2007

Candy Rose

Super Reviewer

Fun without focus or coherence. Full review later.

July 31, 2009

Thomas Bowler

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The Mummy Returns Quotes

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1. Rick O'Connell: [witnessing Imhotep's resurrection] You know, a couple of years ago, this would have seemed really strange to me.
– Submitted by Nick S (24 days ago)
1. Alex: Lady, I don't behave for my parents. What makes you think I'm going to do it for you?
2. Meela/Anck-Su-Namun: Because your parents wouldn't slip poisonous snakes into your bed while you are sleeping.
– Submitted by Kaitlin S (53 days ago)
1. Ardeth Bay: Why can't you people ever keep your feet on the ground?
– Submitted by Lea L (9 months ago)
1. Lock-Nah: When the time comes I shall truly enjoy killing you.
– Submitted by Lea L (9 months ago)

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