2001 · action · adventure · fantasy
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Directed by Stephen Sommers2h 10m2001
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.
Our read: The Mummy Returns (2001) (2001) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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