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Arnold Vosloo is the eponymous returning mummy, leaving the grave to pursue his quest for immortality and create big scares. In terms of freaking out the characters (and the audience) he is almost small fry alongside The Scorpion King (wrestling superstar The Rock) who, along with his ugly, angry, undead army, must not be disturbed. So he is.
This is a huge rock 'n' roll ride, a big blast of a picture which only ever stops so that Brendan Fraser (back as the super-fit, ever decent action man) can load a gun. As the action zooms from the vaults of the British Museum to a mesmerising pyramid of gold, up into the skies on an airborne galleon, and down into the undergrowth where unseen, skeletal pygmies are waiting to devour goodies and baddies alike, set-piece follows set-piece (they are generally uplifting and original), leaving room for only the most fleeting conversation between the characters. Indeed the movie - and this is only a minor beef - is often too packed, sometimes suffocating under the weight of its own ambition. Furthermore, in a film which concentrates on terror, there is much less wit than there was in "The Mummy".
Part of the first film's charm lay in the fact that Fraser and Weisz were often bantering amusingly in scenes which were relatively clutter-free. Still, all cast members are good at being light, including John Hannah (once again playing the likeable dope, this time at the wheel of a careering Routemaster bus) and the picture is certainly high on energy and fun. Saturday cinema lives!
"The Mummy Returns" is due for theatrical release on 18th May 2001.
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