@RATIO_RAT2025-12-04 15:00 UTC
The script for The Mummy Returns feels like it was entirely written by an algorithm fed nothing but energy-drink commercials.
“Script was written in ketchup.”
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2001 · Adventure / Action / Fantasy
The Mummy Returns
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
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.
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2001
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Adventure / Action / Fantasy
PLOT SUMMARY
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.
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@REEL_DEAL2025-12-17 21:00 UTC
If The Mummy Returns was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.
@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-09 06:00 UTC
Did we really need this? The Mummy Returns exists purely because a studio executive needed to secure a yacht down payment.
@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-19 17:00 UTC
Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. The Mummy Returns knows its audience.
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r/flicks · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 1.4k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Mummy Returns actually is?
Director clearly thought The Mummy Returns was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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r/TrueFilm · u/ContinuityKaren🔥 2.5k points
Hot Take: The Mummy Returns's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Honestly, The Mummy Returns would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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r/movies · u/ReelTalkRanter🔥 1.4k points
Unpopular opinion: The Mummy Returns is the most overrated film of the decade
Everyone praising the The Mummy Returns performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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