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The Mummy Returns

  • 20012001
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 10m
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Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Oded Fehr, Dwayne Johnson, Patricia Velasquez, and Arnold Vosloo in The Mummy Returns (2001)
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The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
330K
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POPULARITY
732
32
    • Stephen Sommers
    • Stephen Sommers
  • Stars
    • Brendan Fraser
    • Rachel Weisz
    • John Hannah
    • Stephen Sommers
    • Stephen Sommers
  • Stars
    • Brendan Fraser
    • Rachel Weisz
    • John Hannah
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    • 956User reviews
    • 183Critic reviews
    • 48Metascore
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    Brendan Fraser in The Mummy Returns (2001)
    Patricia Velasquez and Arnold Vosloo in The Mummy Returns (2001)
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    Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in The Mummy Returns (2001)
    Brendan Fraser and Arnold Vosloo in The Mummy Returns (2001)
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    Rachel Weisz, Aharon Ipalé, Patricia Velasquez, and Arnold Vosloo in The Mummy Returns (2001)
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    Jonathan, Evie, Rick and Alex
    Brendan Fraser returns as Rick O'Connell
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    Brendan Fraser
    • Rick O'Connell
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    • Evelyn Carnahan…
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    • Imhotep
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    • Mr. Hafez
    Dwayne Johnson
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    • The Scorpion King
    • (as The Rock)
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    • Trivia
      Rachel Weisz and Patricia Velasquez trained for five months for their fight scene. They did the fight without any stunt women.
    • Goofs
      In The Mummy (1999), the first scene of Rick O'Connell and the French foreign legion fighting the Bedouins is tagged as 1923. The next scene at the museum is "3 years later", presumably 1926. The Mummy Returns (2001) tags the first scene with the O'Connells searching for the Bracelet of Anubis as 1933. And Alex screams at his uncle when they are outside the museum he is "only 8 years old!" For him to be 8, his parents would have had to have him in 1925, possibly conceived in 1924, and Evy and Rick hadn't even met at that point. They could have also had him in 1924.
    • Quotes

      Ardeth Bay: [to Alex] By putting this on, you have started a chain reaction that could bring about the next apocalypse.

      [Alex gasps]

      Rick: [to Ardeth] You, lighten up.

      Rick: [to Alex] You, big trouble.

      Rick: [to Jonathan] You, get in the car.

    • Crazy credits
      The end credits feature objects in the background such as embalming cloth and walls with hieroglyphics. Some of the backgrounds relate to the character. When Arnold Vosloo's and Patricia Velasquez's credits appear, a mummy is seen in the background. When The Rock's credit appears, a scorpion crawls in the background. When John Hannah's credits appear, gold statues can be seen in the background (for his obsession of all things gold).
    • Alternate versions
      Early UK releases removed a headbutt during the Rachel Weisz/Patricia Velasquez fight scene, in order to qualify for a '12' rating. The 2008 DVD release is fully uncut.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Mummy Returns/Time and Tide/Town & Country/With a Friend Like Harry... (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Forever May Not Be Long Enough
      Written by Glen Ballard and Edward Kowalczyk (as Ed Kowalczyk)

      Performed by Live

      Courtesy of Radioactive Records, J.V.

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    Better than some would make out...
    When The Mummy hit theatres in 1999, critics everywhere panned it as being a poor man's Indiana Jones. While the two movies are about as similar as Dr. No is to GoldenEye (thankfully), I suppose comparisons between one non-stop adventure film and other are inevitable. In the end, what really counts when determining a film's quality is the level to which it can entertain. And if there is one thing The Mummy did well, it was entertain. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and Arnold Vosloo were very well chosen for their roles.

    The Mummy Returns is easy to see as being another sequel churned out to satiate the greedy money-machine that Hollywood has become, but it has a few things working for it. One thing that is immediately obvious is that the sequel was very much intended to be a film that could be enjoyed without ever having seen the original. The only references to the previous film are done to fill in the narrative gaps about who Imhotep is, and why he is the way he is. The addition of The Scorpion King was an interesting effort to give the film a new antagonist, but the lack of screentime didn't work well in this tangent's favour. Another tangent that could have been better developed was the rivalry between Imhotep's girlfriend and whatever her name was. Imhotep originally mistook Rachel Weisz's character for being his girlfriend reincarnated, so the use of a woman who looks exactly like her while creating this new tangent needed to be developed differently.

    Most people won't give a damn about complex story tangents and will want to know if this film is entertaining. And it is entertaining, alright. There is barely a dull moment in the film's substantial running length, and Oded Fehr does a bang-up job of providing a Mad-Max-cum-Indiana-Jones hero. I want to know where they get those groovy costumes and tattoos from, they look quite nice. Anyway, when all is said and done, this is an eight out of ten film. A few badly constructed story details here and there, but some extremely entertaining action sequences make up for them. Don't listen to the nay-sayers. This is matinee-style material at its (almost) best. Get the DVD when it comes out, it will at least tide you over until George Lucas gets his head out of his proverbial and realises that the VHS era is well and truly over.
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    • May 21, 2001

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      • May 4, 2001 (United States)
      • United States
      • Universal Pictures
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      • Morocco
    • Production companies
      • Universal Pictures
      • Alphaville Films
      • Imhotep Productions
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