The Mummy Returns

This big-budget sequel from writer/director Stephen Sommers navigates much of the same cliffhanger territory as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones franchise.

It is 1933, eight years after the events of The Mummy (1999). Legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) has married his Egyptologist girlfriend Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) and the couple has settled in London, where they're raising their young son Alex (Freddie Boath).

The family's domestic tranquility is shattered when the 3,000-year-old mummified corpse of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), which has been shipped to the British Museum, is resurrected once again to resume his evil quest for immortality. In the meantime, another ancient threat emerges in the form of the Scorpion King (Dwayne Johnson), a mighty warrior frozen in time with his supernatural army. In order to save his family, Rick is forced to seek a mythical pyramid of gold, facing marauding bands of pygmy skeletons, among other hazards.

The Mummy Returns co-stars John Hannah, Oded Fehr, and Patricia Velasquez

Critic Reviews:

• " The whole two-hours-plus affair just soars along, brainlessly and breathlessly. " – Rob Gonsalves

• " An old-fashioned adventure yarn accelerated for a video-game era, an H. Rider Haggard novel rocketing by at 150 MPH. " – Jeffrey Westhoff

• " It's fun and full of adventure and has enough F/X to satisfy the most jaded action fan. " – Robin Clifford