the mummy return be a quick fluff action piece with some poor slapstick comedy . it use numerous deus ex machina for the sake of use them . one might feel there the use of retconning here too and but again and even those be completely out of place . it be pretty much a family movie ( far more so than the first one ) but some young child could be scar by the mummy . for the most part it be upbeat and doesn not ever give you the feeling that anything will go wrong . synopsis represent bad guy come back to beat another bad guy to rule the world and the good guy try to stop them all . most of the character do a lot of travel and then have a showdown . mixed in be some chumming of the good guy that lead no where . plus they add fate or destiny stuff just to make sure we do not get any more sequel . it assume the audience have attachment to the character and assume you feel the good guy be a tight group but never really build that up . it hard to tell if the movie be just poorly make and or if there be really a much grander and broad story that have to be cut down to a couple hour . the acting be okay except for patricia velasquez who seem wooden and but that might have be the directing and not her . she be quite sexy and so it balance out . rachel weisz be far sexy in this movie than the first and and the rest of the cast do okay while certainly brendan fraser be very comfortable in his role a richard rick oconnell . if you watch it right after the first movie and you will notice clearly that the cgi be a lot bad in return . this add to the idea that it be just a poorly write movie to cash in on the first movie success . besides the poor cgi and the action sequence really be quite well do . theyre easy to follow and be fast paced and and include more dynamic than the rest of the movie . this be a different movie than the first one . it less indiana jones and more . well think of a bad kid movie that suppose to be an adventure but seem silly . it really doesn not feel like it mesh with the first movie ( especially the love between anck su namun and imhotep ) and and while it introduce the scorpion king idea and it again doesn not mesh with that movie at all . unfortunately i think it end this franchise when it really should have spring board a series of movie have it be do with more thought . with all of that say and ultimately it be a fun movie if you do not care about verisimilitude and a i say and most people would see it a fun for the whole family . it just lack depth and solid writing and directing and and decent cgi . if you can snag it cheap and you will feel like you get your money worth . it isn not one of those movie where you just feel cheated for your time . it okay and fluffy fun while just turn off your brain first .