Toronto The Mummy Returns--

--more of the same, only louder and, believe it or not, dumber.

If you liked the first one you'll love this. If you're like me, you'll have wished you waited to rent it on dvd.

You can literally pick out the movies ripped off in virtually every scene and set piece.

The Rock says all of four words in it. Yeah, he can carry a feature based on this.

Duh.


The effects are unacceptably unfinished and rough considering the money and time thrown at this movie. It's as if they got 3/4 of the way finished and ran out of money, and then said, "hey, no one will notice, its only the ending."

This is the anti-Memento.

This everything Spy Kids was not.

This is witless, inane, effects porn without a shred of character or plot.

This is a rental.

Thank you and good night.

Robin T.

 

You know, I get the impression that Robin didn't like the Mummy Returns!

I on the other hand can say I did. I enjoyed, not loved it. It was fun. Oh yeah, the effects were, as Robin was saying, rather 'unfinished' at the end and the 'Rock' did not nor was he supposed to 'carry' this movie, hell, some would say, he wasn't even in the movie. Waste of time promoting him! Otherwise it a bit more of the same old 'Indiana Jones' stuff, with a 'thankfully' different storyline than the first (but nothing overtly original)

I say if you liked the first one, go, at least as a Matinee.

 

Haven't seen the first one. Don't really plan to see the second.

My overall impression based on the trailers alone was "Oh no! Computer effects are chasing us!" I see stuff running around at breathtaking speeds... that's not the Mummy.

The real Mummy shambled and shuffled it's way after you. Oh no, the Mummy's after us, walk a little faster! If you were smart and kept your head about you, you could escape easily -- but if you panicked and got yourself cornered...

Personally, I'd have liked to see a Mummy movie handed over to George Romero and Tom Savini. Those guys are masters at shuffling dead thing movies.

 

Um...Robin...I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but can you -please- allow me to have a little joy in watching anything that's been released in the past few weeks...or at least warn us you're planning on doing a quasi-review in the topic sentence of the thread...thanks.

Cris~

 

Whoops, sorry Cris!

My bad. :/

I will indeed make my intentions more clear next time, however, I will always be "spoiler" free.

Trust me.


Robin T.

 

Hi Tragic,
Next time you come over I will play the first
movie for you. I have it on dvd and you may
like it.

Mike

 

gf said I have to see it, lots of action heh .


My opinion if you want action watch the boondock saints

 

OH man was this movie bad. Trying to keep this spoilerless.

It didn't really have a big-bad-ass bad guy in it. The ending was just soooooooooooooo stupid, and it looked soooooooooo bad.

I agree with Darvin, it was louder, and just full of pontless fight scenes and half rate special effects for a movie of this scale.

See it on a Tuesday.

 

Did anyone else notice their obsessive need to attach a ridiculous, loud sound effect to everything. I mean, since when does turning your headlights off result in a sound rivaling that of lightening striking a few feet away?

 

Yup, noticed that too.

My friend commented on their LOUD headlights. Must be those old cars from the 1930's