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Rating: 6.375/10 by 7023 users

The Mummy Returns (2001)

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.

Directing:
  • Stephen Sommers
  • Adil Abdelwahab
  • Jamie Christopher
  • Matthew Sharp
  • Sylvie Chesneau
  • Cliff Lanning
  • Dan John
  • Greg Michael
  • William Dodds
Writing:
  • Stephen Sommers
  • Stephen Sommers
  • John L. Balderston
  • Nina Wilcox Putnam
  • Richard Schayer
  • Lloyd Fonvielle
  • Kevin Jarre
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, May 04, 2001

Rating: 6.375/10 by 7023 users

Alternative Title:
A Múmia 2 - BR
The Mummy 2 - CA
La Momie 2 - Le Retour De La Momie - FR
The Mummy 2- The Mummy Returns - US
La Momie : Le Retour - FR
La Momia Regresa - SV
La momia 2 - MX
Mumija 2 - LT
La Mummia 2 - Il Ritorno - IT
Mummy 2 - CA
Mummy 2 - Returns - CA
Mummy 2 - The Mummy Returns - CA
The Mummy II: Returns - US
The Mummy Returns (El regreso de la momia) - ES
El regreso de la momia (The Mummy Returns) - ES
Мумия возвращается - RU
The Mummy II - US
The Mummy 2 - US
盜墓迷城2 - HK

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
العربية
Runtime: 02 hour 10 minutes
Budget: $98,000,000
Revenue: $443,280,904

Plot Keyword: egypt, pyramid, son, mummy, nile, sequel, tomb, ancient egypt, 1930s, egyptian tomb, good versus evil

Brendan Fraser
Rick O'Connell
Rachel Weisz
Evelyn O'Connell / Nefertiri
John Hannah
Jonathan Carnahan
Oded Fehr
Ardeth Bay
Patricia Velásquez
Meela / Anck-Su-Namun
Freddie Boath
Alex O'Connell
Dwayne Johnson
Mathayus / The Scorpion King
Alun Armstrong
Baltus Hafez
Shaun Parkes
Izzy Buttons
Bruce Byron
"Red" Willits
Joe Dixon
Jacques Clemons
Tom Fisher
Jacob Spivey
Donna Air
Show Girl
Trevor Lovell
Mountain of Flesh
Brian Best
British Museum Mummy (uncredited)
Sean Cronin
High Priest (uncredited)
Rocky Taylor
Man in Alley (uncredited)
Rene Costa
Digger (uncredited)
Salem Hanna
Egyptian Digger (uncredited)
Max Cavalera
Scorpion King (voice) (uncredited)

Gimly

Suffers a little from the belief commonly held by sequels that "Bigger is better". Does expand the mythology (arguably not a positive), but more importantly is still a good time, thanks primarily to the relationship between the Brendan Fraser and Rachael Weisz characters. _Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._

Wuchak

***Bigger is NOT always better; here it’s overKILL*** I'm a fan of the first movie from 1999 and was naturally looking forward to this 2001 sequel. I originally saw it at the theater with two friends; after about 10-15 minutes we were all bored by the bombardment of action and F/X. We just laid back in our seats in tedium for the remaining couple hours. It's a curious thing that too much action and F/X in a film can be boring. It may not seem logical but it's true; and "The Mummy Returns" is Exhibit A. I usually give certain movies second and third chances in the hope that my first impression may have been in error, which I’ve done with this one over the years. Unfortunately I keep finding myself relatively detached from the story even though there are all kinds of exciting things going on; or, at least, things that SHOULD HAVE been exciting. "The Mummy Returns" has a lot going for it: A great cast, locations, costumes, cinematography, F/X, etc. (although some of the CGI is woefully cartoony, like the Scorpion King at the close). It has great Indiana Jones appeal. Unfortunately it all adds up to a forgettable piece of cinematic dung. What went wrong? Simply put, no substance. "The Mummy Returns" abandons the characters while the plot is utilized as a clothesline for action and F/X sequences. The flick curiously has so many ingredients right, but it somehow utterly fails to absorb the viewer. It is unadulterated cinematic JUNK. It should be utilized in filmmaking classes as the quintessential example of style over substance or overKILL: having all the right elements, including budget, and yet stupefyingly fumbling the ball. The film runs 2 hours, 10 minutes (overlong), and was shot in England, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt. GRADE: C-

John Chard

Yeah, right, and no harm ever came from reading a book. You remember how that one went? After the financial success of "The Mummy" two years earlier, the sequel was inevitable. The big players from the first film are back, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo and Oded Fehr. Stephen Sommers once again directs (and writes), Patricia Velasquez comes in to be a main player after her cameo in the first film, and young Freddie Boath plays the son of Rick and Evelyn who are now married. This time the cameo goes to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who plays The Scorpion King and who is replaced by a very bad CGI version of himself at film's finale. When the second sequel, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" (2008), was released, Brendan Fraser went on record as saying that for "The Mummy Returns" they basically remade the film they had already made in 1999! This is absolutely true, some new characters and an expansion on the O'Connell romance have been put in to beef it up, while some Zombie Pygmies are around to add extra monster factor, but yes! It's a re-tread only with more money spent, more effects (and better effects apart from Scorpion King) and more noise. This actually is OK for those who enjoyed the first film immensely, because "Returns" is every bit as enjoyable as family blockbuster entertainment. The Worldwide box offices rang to the tune of over $330 million in profit. That's a lot of happy families you would think!. So yes, it's a bit of a cheat, but much like the film before it, it gets away with it because the makers do everything they can to entertain the action/adventure loving crowd. With legions of Anubis warriors, those awesome Pygmies and the all round funny by-play between a cast comfortable with the material (again), "The Mummy Returns" delivers exactly what can reasonably be expected of it. 7/10

CinemaSerf

This is, actually, every bit as good as it's daddy - but why, oh why, do we always to have to introduce children into the mix? In this case Fredddie Boath joins the gang of intrepid adventurers trying to save the world from the scourge of a recently re-reincarnated mummy (a re-born, born again sort of thing!). He finds the Bracelet of Anubis, gets kidnapped and off we go on a fun race against time across the desert encountering all sorts of dangers and evil critters along the way. This one also introduces us to the "Scorpion King" (least said, I think) and Sommers, again, keeps this all moving along apace. It is just entertainment and if you look for nothing more then - of it's genre, it isn't disappointing.


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