The Mummy Returns Critic Reviews

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USA Today | Susan WloszczynaAdd Critic to Favorites

There's much mumbo-jumbo about past lives and symbolic tattoos, but who cares when you can gaze at a sight as lovely as a dirigible floating in the night sky?Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Both pleasantly old-fashioned and packed with up-to-date computer-generated special effects, the film's constant plot turns, cheeky sensibility and omnipresent action sequences have no trouble attracting our attention and holding on.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

Virtually bursts with visual goodies, and writer-director Stephen Sommers scarcely allows the actors, or the audience, a moment to take a breath during the nonstop action of the final hour.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

The actors themselves are more rip roaring and full of spunk than in their first outing.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The mistake of The Mummy Returns is to abandon the characters, and to use the plot only as a clothesline for special effects and action sequences.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

Suffers from the bloat common to sequels.Read the full review

The New York Times | Elvis MitchellAdd Critic to Favorites

The noisome action sequences of The Mummy Returns are preferable to the quiet times, when the cast is limited to spouting dialogue that is a banal combination of exposition and homily.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

A few billion 1s and 0s in search of a movie.Read the full review

Washington Post | Curt FieldsAdd Critic to Favorites

Fraser is likable enough, albeit never quite convincing as an action hero.Read the full review

Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites

Many of the visual effects are stunning, but others are downright cheesy -- especially an attempt to fuse the Rock's head onto a scorpion's body.Read the full review

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