The Mummy Returns Critic Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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