Rotten
A piss-poor mummy movie indeed that doesn't deliver a damn thing worth preserving.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Mummy Returns
The most powerful force on earth is about to be unleashed by the two people who should know better.
2001 · 2h 10m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
Stephen Sommers
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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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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