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The Mummy Returns
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Studio Synopsis: The Mummy Returns is set in 1935, 10 years after the events of the first film. Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) is now married to Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), and the couple have settled in London, where they are raising their 9-year-old son Alex (played by screen newcomer Freddie Boath). When a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) resurrected in the British Museum, the mummy Imhotep walks the earth once more, determined to fulfill his quest for immortality. But another force has ... been set loose in the world...one born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, and even more powerful than Imhotep. When these two forces clash, the fate of the world will hang in the balance, sending the O'Connells on a desperate race to save the world from unspeakable evil, and rescue their son before it is too late.
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The Mummy Returns is a movie that has a lot of good special effects. It ... is about a war, the war is evil vs evil vs good. The first evil is a Scorpion king (the Rock) who sells his soul to an evil god. He sold it so he could kill his enemies and this evil god saved him. The other evil is the same one from The Mummy (Imhotep). He is still in search of immortality but now he has his lover back, so he wants to be wants her eternally.
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Like any good sequel, The Mummy Returns expands on the characters in the first, gives them expanded backgrounds, and gives a sense of closure at the end while setting up potential sequels. The witty banter between all participants is still there, although the sexual tension between Weisz and Fraser is gone. However, the script gives everybody sufficient opportunity to quip back and forth. It is this humorous aspect that lightening the tension that gives The Mummy Returns a lighthearted tone. Although there is plenty of danger, it seems nobody is in any real trouble. It's surprising that these people have time to quip, since Sommers packs in one lengthy action sequence in after another.
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Starring Brendan Fraser, The Mummy Returns is (of course) a sequel to the hugely popular 1999 hit. Fraser returns as archeologist Rick O'Connell, while Rachel Weisz reprises her role as his love interest (and now wife), Evelyn. The intrepid couple now has a seven-year-old son named Alex, who apparently serves no purpose other than to spout witty one-liners and further the plot by being kidnapped. Alex, you see, was fooling around with an artifact his parents brought home after a particularly arduous expedition, when said artifact (a golden bracelet) locked itself around his wrist. Now, a rogue band of evil Egyptologists must kidnap Alex in order to prevent the resurrection of the even more evil Scorpion King (played by, with not one line spoken in English, The Rock). If the Scorpion King were to return from his Hellish slumber, returning mummy Imhotep and his reincarnated bride Anck-Su-Namun would quickly find themselves at the whim of this powerful half-man/half-insect.
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The Mummy Returns, sequel to The Mummy, was given the go-ahead for production on the same day that the Mummy was released. It hit screens two years later, with the main cast back from the Mummy.
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Those buying The Mummy Returns DVD... might be a tad bit disappointed. While featuring several cool extras, a premium-quality 2.35:1 widescreen transfer and Dolby 5.1 audio (in French and English), the disc also includes several sorry extras that would've been best left on the cutting-room floor. Worst among these is "A Special Message from Oded Fehr," the dashing actor who plays Ardet Bey, leader of the Medjai desert warriors. Touted as an extra, it's actually a Sally Struthers-like shill for Fehr's favorite charity, a children's cancer ward. Then there's what's billed as the main extra, "An Exclusive Conversation with the Rock," which features the World Wrestling Federation star answering five softball questions lobbed by a sycophantic journalist who makes Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart look like CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
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