Rotten
A piss-poor mummy movie indeed that doesn't deliver a damn thing worth preserving.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Mummy Returns
Adventure is reborn.
2001 · 2h 10m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
Stephen Sommers
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The Mummy Returns
Overview
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.
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46%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A bully follow-up to the 1999 international smash
David Hunter, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
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.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten
There's more than a little unintentional humor in the picture.
Susan Stark, Detroit News
Fresh
Fitfully entertaining.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
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