![]() Admittedly, I didn't fall ankh, line, and cerements for the first - too eager to please, to cartoonish, I thought - but The Mummy Returns so gleefully abandons any semblance of sanity that it's virtually impossible not to enjoy the sheer breadth of nonsensical fun taking place on screen. Sommers, who helmed the summer '99 prequel to this franchise-in-the-making (itself an updating of the great old Universal Karloff classic) also wrote this outing and, if anything, the faster-than-the-speed-of-doom pacing and hyperkinetic tone make it even more of a cinematic roller coaster than its predecessor. ![]() Exploding corpses, defiled tombs, POV shots of arcane weaponry, and more CGI monsters than you can shake the Staff of Ra at: Summer movie season has officially arrived, and for once the aspiring blockbuster leading off the deluge of big-budget behemoths is a resounding success.
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