The Mummy Returns isn’t concerned with character development or
The Mummy Returns isn’t concerned with character development or plot; it exists simply to please the audience with massive amounts of eye-candy. An old-fashioned cheap dvds adventure yarn accelerated for a video-game era, an H. Rider Haggard novel rocketing by at 150 MPH. 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. The goal here seems to be to race through the plot-as-endless-series-of-climaxes with enough speed and energy that you almost forget you’ve seen it all before.