The summer season starts with the sequel to the 1999 box office smash
The Mummy, which put Brendan Fraser and Rachel
Weisz versus an evil mummy played by Arnold Vosloo. Though they conquered the mummy once and for all in the first film, Vosloo manages to make it back easily. Unfortunately, the whole of
The Mummy Returns is much more shallow than that.
Most people expect sequels to be worse than the original, and they shouldn''t; in the first Mummy film, Fraser and Weisz meet for the first time, their chemistry is great, and they have no clue as to what they are going to encounter. The powers of the mummy are shocking and scary to them, as they should be. Furthermore, despite the purposely cheesy script, the plot is pretty invigorating. The sequel should not deviate from the first movie''s formula, except that it should have more action, more comedy, and more horror (if anyone can remember back that far, the movie did have a few truly creepy parts).
Unfortunately, The Mummy Returns is a bad sequel. It has more action and more comedy, but at the expense of the plot, the dialogue, the characters, and the audience''s interest. From minute one I realized that this second film could be a tedious film.