The Mummy Returns - Nostalgia Critic
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It has one of the laughably worse cg effects ever, but does The Mummy Returns entertain on the same level as the first one? Nostalgia Critic looks at the laughable insanity.
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The Mummy Returns is a 2001 American action-adventure horror film,[2] written and directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, Patricia Velásquez, and Dwayne Johnson. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film The Mummy. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
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Should we complete the trilogy and do the 3rd Mummy movie?
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You should. And after that, can you do a movie review of 2003 Peter Pan?
Maybe you should. You are awesome. Channel awesome.
YES, absolutely you should do the third, it didn't even have Rachel Weisz in it...
Please review Barbie and the nutcracker in memory of voice actor Kirby Morrow
Might as well
Fun fact: The main reason for the terrible Scorpion King CGI is because the SFX team had very little time to complete the work and only finished as much as they could a mere 8 days before the release.
that's incredible since it took nearly a decade to make cyberpunk 2077(jk)
@@wireboar7321 okay I know this is a Joe but that's a game not a movie also you don't make hate to cyberpunk
@@changsiah2 Also, they didn't have a decade for cyberpunk 2077. It was more like 5 years. They couldn't start working on it till Witcher 3 was done and alarmed success. Until that time, CDPR didn't have the money or the manpower to start cyberpunk.
@Twiddly Stosh I agree. It should've been released when ready or at the very least should have been released as either early access, alpha, or a beta but NOT as a finished product. I heard somewhere that they were under a lot of pressure from the government to release it sooner than they wanted but I honestly have no idea of the validity of that claim
JoBlo been dropping science for like 20 years
I’ll give this movie one thing, they kept the whole romance thing from the first one instead of have them get divorced just to fall in love again like almost every sequel does. So they get a point for that
@Joseph Hitler Or give him some personality and chemistry to work with.
But they do that by inserting a stereotypical kid character which is just as generic and annoying as forced drama. I'll take that point back.
@@uruloki2758…so couples never have a kid in films again? With that logic no one should make movies anymore
@@mysticmind4563He has an intellectual mind, so he does have some personality :-)
Same. So tired of the break up for the sequel trope. Keep couples together and have them learn how to be stronger together and grow as a couple.
Say what else but Arnold Vosloo acts the HELL out of the scene of Imhotep abandoned. His cry for her, watching her leave, whispering her name as it hits him he endured millennia of torture for what really amounted to a simple fling.
Then the small smile of respect at Rick and Evie, realizing what they have is a bond of love he can only dream of, the tiny nod, then accepting his fate. So much bad in the movie but that moment is wonderful.
You know what? I could see him play Mr.Freeze in “The Batman” sequel
He was great in Hard Target. 'You wouldn't want to.... Hurt my feelings'
He was phenomenal as Marwan in 24
He was the only saving grace in GIjoe
Wait, what nod? The smile I see, but not a nod
Yeah, but I'll always appreciate the fact that Rick and Evie are still together, and not a stupid source of conflict.
true! but they also should've been more watchful of their child, not making out in every scene while their boy gets almost killed or abducted 3x in 1 week LOL 😂
I wish Critic hadn't skipped the funniest bit which is during the "are we there yet?" scene. The bad guy grows sick of it, grabs his dagger and stabs the table exactly between the kid's fingers and Alex goes "wow! How did you do that? That was amazing!" and bad guy replies: "what are you talking about? I missed." I don't know why but that scene stuck with me. His deadpan reply was so funny and unexpected and I never forgot it. Easily the best scene in the movie.
I didnt care for this movie, but that bit worked.
I always laugh with this scene.
i went to watch that scene it was pretty cool and funny thanks
I found it funnier when Lock Nah takes Alex to the bathroom
Alex: I can't go when someone's watching
*Lock Nah turns around*
Alex: I don't trust you, you'll look!
Lock Nah: 🤨
Right on
Well look at it this way: Even Dwyane The Rock Johnson a CG Scorpion Monstrousity with absolutely no character, still has more character than Tom Cruise did in the Mummy Remake. "Or at least he was a more realistic actor."
It's funny because it's TRUE, and a better more interesting story
It's a shock Dwyane Johnson kept appearing in movies.
@@metalixtheunknown9677 Well he had a rough start, but he was one of the better wrestler, turned actors. Sometimes a good actor picks bad movies or roles unfit for them. "Robin Williams could fill an Olympic Sized Swimming Pool with all the clunkers he stared in or played in but he still was a good actor rest his soul."
Agreed. Cruise was painfully miscast.
@@geraldmiddleton3936 I'm not sure if the direction of Alex Kurtsman derailed it "though it couldn't have helped just look how badly that man has screwed up the Star Trek Franchise" or possibly something Tom Cruise did "His ego is higher than Scientology Dues". No doubt it's a combination of the 2.
One thing I like, too, in the scene where Anuk Sun-Amun abandons Imhotep. Rick is screaming for Evie to get herself to safety but she ignores him and runs to save him. Imhotep meanwhile *begs* ASA to help him but she turns and runs with just a "No!" (Both keeps the villain's selfishness intact and makes his abandonment that much more painful for him)
Remember this had a cartoon on Kids WB?
Oh yeah. Haha, holy fuck that just escaped all memory. Thanks for reminding of that.
I remember it. I don't know full details, but for some reason guy with the glasses from the first movie is a companion to Imhotep, while also being in the timeline of the second movie. Which confused me a lot back then.
I loved that. It focused on Alex training to control the gauntlet, the parents were rarely in it, and Imhotep was outmaneuvered like every episode.
Oh shit, I completely forgot about that...
It's on youtube
Actually Doug, a lot of people seem to forget that the Mummy took the eyes from someone with poor eyesight (hence the glasses), which explains why he might not have recognized her to begin with. And THAT is the only bit of subtlety in these movies.
GENIUS! Never caught that! 😂 😂
Good point. And correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Imhotep address Evie as a princess when he first sees her while still in his mummy form? I think he already recognized her as the Pharaoh's daughter but was keeping her around as a vessel for Anck-Su-Namun's soul
its been 7 years
@@barbiquearea Well there is the slight bit of awkwardness trying to explain resurrection of someone, who is reincarnated into a living adult already...
lol no.
It’s funny how I can forgive every flaw in these two movies and love them to pieces, but the third one’s casting change will always be unforgivable to me.
Same.
Replacing Evie made it unwatchable for me.
that's how alot of people feel as well.
Wait there was a third one?
Oh Oh no. I blanked it out, I watched that on release week
@@tdestroyer4780 unlike when Terrance Howard was replaced by Don Cheadle for all future MCU movies starting with Iron Man 2
I have to say that little expression on Imhotep's face as he watches the O'Connells before he just gives up at the end shows more character development and explains his motivations more than anything or anyone else gets in this film. That little moment is literally my favorite part.
Yeah. People forgot, the mummy story, even as far back as Bram Stoker’s Jewel of Seven Stars, is a tragic romance. And seeing it breaking in this scene, shows that in scene. These first two movies don’t deserved that much hate, they have their moments.
@@dylantennant6594 No but they go donhill from their...more like straight off a cliff
I think Critic latched onto O'Connell's "frisky with the Pharaoh's daughter" line from the first movie a little too tightly. He said it as a joke, not realizing until later that he hit really close to the actual situation. The second movie explicitly states that Evy is a reincarnation of Nefertiti, the Pharaoh's (Seti I) daughter, and Meela is the reincarnation of Ankh-Su-Namun, Seti's mistress. So, no, they're not sisters. As far as the movies explain, anyway.
I'm sorry, but you missed one of the best lines in the movie, "Honey, what are you doing? These guys don't use doors."
I agree. Along with Brennan Fraiser pointing at everyone complaining ending with pointing at his son saying And you get in the car!
@@gianinabadami5341 He said that to Jonathan. Alex's was "You, big trouble."
He missed alot of stuff in this review, feel like he does it on purpose just for an excuse to complain
Ardeth to Alex: By putting this on, you have started a chain reaction that could bring about the next apocalypse.
Rick: You, lighten up. You, big trouble. You, get in the car.
@@rickylyon3846 That's the dialog! Lol
You gotta at least give it to Imhotep. His face when his lover left him to save herself was truly heartbreaking.
I think that the actor had potential, but shitty script and directing didn't allowed him to fully show his talent.
That's a great scene, adds a soul to the character
Yes I love him. I wish he got more roles
Arnold Vosloo is an amazing actor!
I agree
"The real treasure is the people we leave behind along the way."
Why do I love this quote
*"SHAMON!"*
"Burn her!"
Yup, that's what Michael Jackson was saying all those years. You don't wanna know what "a-HEE-hee!" means.
He actually said hee hee but he did say shamon
@@joshentertainment2 Actually, he said Sheq-boh.
If the MCU had gotten off the ground earlier in time, and Michael had landed a role in one of the Avengers moviesas Thanos would it have been The InfinitHEE-HEE Gauntlet he was after?
@@randomguy2518 Come on Disney! I am just now realized what a huge opportunity the Mouse missed. They could have brought in a CGI Michael into the MCU canon as Captain Eo which they own, and even had the perfect final battle themein "We're Here to Save the World"!
@@RikoJAmado seeing as they used "immigrant song" by led zeppelin instead of Amon Amarth's "Guardians of Asgard" in Ragnoroks final battle. .they Excell at missed opportunites
Fun fact: the filming location for the interior of the British museum in this movie is the Dimco buildings, which are most famous For being used as the Acme factory in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
and the O'Connell House is the same Mansion used for Wayne Manor in Nolan's Batman films.
That is a fun fact!
Neat!
I KNEW THAT I WASNT CRAZY THINKING IT LOOKED LIKE IT CAME FROM ROGER RABBIT!!!
Fucking years saying that to my friends and they just said "pffff! nahh all old time factories look like that, its just a coincidence" a coincidence huh? SUCK ON THAT SUCKERS!!!
What's fun about that fact
That guy does a surprisingly decent Rock impression.
Shame Critics English impersonation is complete shite.
He nailed how oddly adorable The Rock is.
I agree
He got the baritone raspiness of it right.
@@Gambit771 stfu
I genuinely love the whole "Mummy" trilogy, while recognizing its very obvious flaws.
Same here 😚
I do to. Its the anti- Indiana jones/tomb raider. Its just popcorn goofy comedy with great set pieces. I even give the scorpion king a pass because the bad cgi totes fits with the kitchen sink of tropes in the mummy 2 ;)
I loved the first one, the second was definitely a step down but I still enjoyed it. It was definitely a case of pretty much doing the same thing, but not as well. Still, I thought it was a fun movie. Even trying to be generous, I really can't say anything good about the third.
But not the Tm Cruise one right lol
"I understand that people genuinely like this film, but how can you not cry laugh at some of these moments?" Simple. One leads to the other.
Anck-Su-Namun is the real villain, Imhotep did everything for her and she left him to die.
Yeah, poor guy
You actually feel sorry for him at the end, when his love interest abandons him, yet his enemy (Rick) is saved by their own. Heck, in the novelization, Rick tries to save him even.....
@@lockwoan01
Yo just curious what was Imhotep’s reaction to that(if any)
Cause honestly there’s a lot just in those few seconds
@@averongodoffire8098 Never read the book, so I don't know. Still, the guy gave up, basically.
@@lockwoan01
Hm well still cool to know
That The Rock impersonation is right on; the guy looks like a reasonably large, but steroid free, version of Dwayne Johnson.
That's Roger I haven't seen him in the review in a long time the last time he did a review he was an angel for the Christmas carol
It sounds almost like Kronk fused with the Rock
@@GamerLegend.97 I remember him in the Scooby Doo 2 review
@@GamerLegend.97 His name is Lando and he's been in several reviews since that one. The last one he was in was Justice League where he was Aquaman.
@@SweenyTodd98 no wrong it's Orlando Belisle Jr
They weren't sisters. Eveylin is the daughter of the Pharaoh, Princess Nefertiti. The other lady is Anck-su-namun was the Pharaoh's mistress. He chose his daughter to guard the bracelet and Anck-su to be his personal bodyguard/mistress.
Unfortunately for him, choosing Anck-su-namun as his protector was a major mistake, and he didn't realize that until it was too late.
26:42 I love that the Scorpion King actually turns to Imhotep and is like "Wow! And here I thought this scene couldn't get any more ridiculous"
The Mummy running into shot, getting on his knees so he can’t shout ‘nooooo’ cracks me up every time.
I thought I was the only one! 😂
I was laughing my ass off in the theaters when that happened. It looked like the actor forgot he was supposed to be standing there
Best funny scene ever
It's like something from the gag reel they decided to keep in and reminds me of Ace Ventura screaming at the spears in his legs.
@@Jar0fMay0 I think they did the CGI scene and went "whoops, forgot to time it with the shot. Guess he comes in 15 seconds later because we have 20 minutes to wrap the edit and release to theatre".
They weren't sisters. Evelyn was the reincarnation of the Pharoh's daughter and Mila is the reincarnation of the Phatoh's wife. It's a step mom/step daughter relationship.
Tbf, that wasn't really communicated well in the actual movie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@HunterX05 Yes it is, they say it directly. Can't be much clearer than that and the whole reason Imotep kills the Pharoh is because he's caught fucking the Pharoh's wife.
@@KuzinPennywise711 it's been a few years since i watched the movie, it's pretty much a blur
@@HunterX05 Then why argue that it wasn't clear if you don't remember? That just doesn't make sense.
@@KuzinPennywise711 because i thought that i would have remembered if the distinction had been made in a clear fashion.
and it's nearly midnight where i live, my judgment ain't exactly at it's peak. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I will always love these movies because they’re cheesy and *know* they’re cheesy. They aren’t pretending to be super serious action movies. I mean the bus fight is borderline comical whilst still keeping the tension
thank you for highlighting how rick & eve completely ignore their own child, especially in the same week he almost dies / gets abducted multiple times.
They realzized just how annoying he is
Alex: "My Dad is gonna kick your ass."
Me: "Are we sure that part of him has reformed yet?"
At the risk of giving that movie even the _most microscopic bit of praise,_ I was thinking that the line "What are you gonna wear, Daddy... in Hell?" from the boy from _Jack & Jill_ was funnier. _Not by much,_ but still funnier.
Fun theory in the first mummy when Imhotep kills Bernard Burns and takes his eyes and tongue he inherited the bad eye sight and mistook Evelyn for Anck-Su-Namun.
Great theory. Also I think he already knew Evelyn wasn't Anck-Su-Namun but wanted to use her body to put his love's soul into.
Yeah... no.
That sounds like something they’d have added in a novelization.
Well, we _do_ see him squinting when he tries to get a look at her...
Honestly that is what I thought too, because the guy had terrible eyesight. I figured that was why he mistook her for his lover.
"This was... my first bus ride." Favorite line from the movie even years later. It's not a good movie but I enjoy the hell out of it. 😜
That part was hilarious. "I kinda just got muh @$$ kicked, but muh hur still looks perfz, lol". Gotta love Ardeth.
“I prefer the Thompson”
0:30
After “The Whale” that Brendan Fraser joke does not work.
Stephen Sommers really looked at CGI Rock and said “eh Okay”
And then thirty seconds later jim Cummings came in and overreacted.
Mila wasn't Rachel Weisz's sister, she was her stepmother.
That is very different.
Yeah it annoyed me that he kept saying sister. His point is the same but... Did was he even paying attention
Also Anuck-sun-amon was Pharaoh's mistress. If she was Nefitiri's sister, then that would make her Pharaoh's daughter, too! This isn't Game of Thrones, Doug!
I was going to comment the same.
Yeah that sister thing pissed me off so much I didn’t wait till the end of the review to comment.
I always liked when Johnathan stalls by fighting that evil chick while Alex tries to resurrect Evie
It's a good callback to the first one.
Why does he keep saying sister when the two aren’t related. One is the Pharos daughter and the other is his mistress
very annoying.
I know this has already been said but Anck su Namun and Nefertiti weren’t sisters. Anck was the Pharoh’s mistress. He got pissed off when he noticed that her body paint had been smudged which prompted Imhotep to act quickly and kill him. Just sayin’.
was gonna say the same
@@baronblood666
No offense to Doug, but had he not gone on and on about them being sisters, as if it was blatantly stated or implied in the film and in the script even (it isn’t) I wouldn’t have said anything. Sure it’s totally possible for them to have been sisters, royals ALWAYS kept it in the family. But I guess Doug was having a moment.
@@astridweasley you know I've been noticing an increasing lack of research on the movies he reviews, the biggest I noticed are for example in Alien vs predator the "nerd side" of the brain asked three questions of which two are answered i the movie itself and the last one is common lore knowledge of the franchise, he said sarcastically in the jurassic world movie "something you've never seen in a jurassic film before: hunting dinosaurs at night!!!" when in reality yeah, we never seen dinosaurs being hunted at at night, I could go on but if you pay attention 2 in every 3 reviews doug delivers wrong info, wrong info that can easily be proven wrong as if he didn't do research.
@@omarreyes7626 He constantly misses the most obvious points and replaces them with whatever nonsense his brain creates.
@@Gambit771 and to top it off, this film is a MILLION times better than Rise of Skywalker
27:46 He could have at least praised Arnold Vosloo performance as Imohtep being abandoned by the love of his life. I always feel a stab of pain thinking about it even now.
He did what any good character actor should do: take a silly, outlandish role and make it human and relatable. Give it an inner dimension.
"The very best character actors are made of equal parts discipline and madness, and the fact that our faces are more familiar than our names is not our curse, but our blessing. The character actor's goal, after all, is not to earn the adulation of the public; it is to give lives to a hundred nameless spirits who make us laugh or cry, who are both familiar and new, who show us that their journey is our journey, and who, like everyone in the audience, never get to kiss Renée Zellweger."
-Stephen Tobolowsky
They wasted his potential for the sake of action and exposition.
Doug hates these movies for some dumb reason, they are super fun and I rewatch them and Van Helsing every now and then.
That scene always breaks my heart. In the end he came back after centuries to reunite with his one true love and finally live with her, only for her to abandon him. You can see the realization that he gave up his station, his life and spent centuries as an undead tortured mummy for naught.
It's awful and the actor did an amazing job showing the crushing realization and final decision to end his life for good.
Well, one reason as to why Imhotep Might have mistook Evie for his lost love has to deal with the fact that he look the eyes of a visually-impaired man - he didn't have 20-20 vision. It actually makes sense.
Imotept shouting "NO" has always been my favorite moment
You missed one thing. In the first movie, it’s implied that Imhotep thinks Eve is Anuk-Su Namun also because he “took” his new eyes from the man with the glasses, so he cant see well enough. Fun review as always tho.
well to be fair he DID recognize someone from his past. So he got the I have seen her before part down, from across the street. That's pretty difficult for me without my glasses :)
@@SpectralKnight Yeah, i guess the rules are a bit bendy, still love the first movie :)
But... they are played by the same actress, dammit.
Still can't wrap my head around how the Scorpion King was a good guy in his own movie but evil in here.
I'll just pretend they were two different people who just both bore the same title.
I mean he sold his soul. So his actions may have not been completely his own
I always chalked it up to something bad happened to his sorceress girlfriend that turned him evil
According to the Director, the evil one in this film is an identical descendant of the one from the Scorpion Kings films. Doubt that this was the original plan, but it is the canon response right now.
@@TheBroncoley pretty meh as an explanation: could have said he became evil after reigning for so many years and he lost his way.
Because that movie came later and they couldn't really make a movie about a villain? Also, he was still an assassin, dude.
What's funny is The Rock stopped using the rock name when transitioning to movies... yet once he went back to wrestling in 2011, it seemed to REALLY kick-start his movie career again... Now He openly loves being referred to as The Rock.
Favorite line from the movie was when the kid was like “look reading material!”
TP xD
The real star of this movie is Alan Silvestri, who composed one of the best soundtracks of his career. A very worthy follow-up to Jerry Goldsmith's score for the first film.
Hell yeah
Which is surprising that they got two quite legendary composers for the Mummy films?
@@GuineaPigEveryday It's reminiscent of James Horner following up Jerry Goldsmith for the first two Star Trek & Alien films.
Damn I didn’t realize that till my recent rewatch of it. Good follow up to Goldsmith’s
Did the same thing with Van Helsing. That soundrack is amazing
Back when Maui was a giant scorpion. Ah the good old days XD
Those were the good old days, back on cybertron, didn't have to sneak around in, these ugly ass disguises!
What can I say except...yikes!
What can I say except holy fuck I was a scorpion? !
What can I say, except you're welcome?
To be fair, Maui could shapeshift
In the first movie, the mummy took the eyes of the guy who needed glasses to see. He even questioned if it was his love that he saw.
I know im two years late but if he needed to take the eyes of a blind man how did he even manage to take out the blind man if he couldnt even see at all himself? Its not like his vision improved either way, ive always wondered that 🤔
The first two mummy films are amazing, I feel that they capture the whole b movie feel that they were drawing from (the original mummy movies) and because they knew that the subject matter is so silly they just leant into it .. compare this to Tom cruises super serious mummy how bloody awful was that!
The way Imhotep runs into the frame is really funny. He looks like a referre that gives the final verdict.
Omg he really DOES tho 😂😂😂😂
Aaaaaaand it's... 98 million dollars spent to give us this crappy effect!!!
SAFE!
@@RaivenMonota 🤣 or the way his arms are out, it's like "I Gotcha!!"
it feels like he forgot it was his time to act so they waited awkwardly and suddenly the director "uhh? Dude? Your line?" and hw was like "eh? oh! oh sorry! *ahem* err i mean 'NOOOOOOOO' "
The Rock as the scorpion king was just laughable.
Best CGI ever, but Attack of the Clones is a close 2nd
I think you meant "spectacular", don't worry common mistake
and yet they made a good spin-off movie from it
Yeah, but lets put his fat face form Central Intelligence over it: pbs.twimg.com/media/CUSIBnBUsAEWP6T.jpg:large
@@TheAllSeeingEye2468 lol good he says.
1:30 I don’t know why, but it cracks me up how he says, “No, it doesn’t exist yet!!“ 🤣🤣
I thought the Nostalgia Critic was supposed to "remember it, so you don't have to." Then why is he forgetting It or getting It confused and mixing things up? 😅✌😁
Because this movie a confusing mess that could be a lot clearer on a lot of things. I wasn’t surprised that he got the same things wrong that I did. It’s the movie’s fault.
Past Evie and Anck-Su-Namun aren't sisters, Past Evie is her stepdaughter. Now do Tomb of the Dragon Emperor pls
EDIT: Correct, Anck-Su-Namun was the Pharoah's concubine/mistress
THAT WAS A GOOD MOVIE....... mostly the fights
Douchie McNitPick approves.
Thank you!
Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the worst piece of shit ever.... so he’ll probably like it.
Yo I knew that. I thought Doug made a mistake there.
"Its like the movie is punishing you for missing scenes that arent in the movie"
Ah yes the prometheus way of making movies
I actually liked this movie
I also just remembered my favorite fact about the Mummy movies.
Imhotep was originally an architect in the 27th Century.
Ankhesenamun was a queen in the 18th Century.
So, these characters are seen side by side, and we know the director and writers went with the actual historical figures because they have characteristics that are commonly associated with them. But to relate these two characters, it would be like if a movie released in the year 3000, with Marylin Monroe and Marco Polo as the main love interests because they seemed like a good match.
I've never understood why they went with these two characters specifically (Imhotep's legacy is still highly regarded) but maybe they just liked the sound of the names.
16:00 I was a kid when I first saw this movie, and my mom literally told me "never say that word, sweetie" then like 5 years later she told me I had to start cussing in school.
Imhotep's actor is a treasure in these movies. I'm honestly surprised that his facial expressions haven't become more of a meme.
I didn’t realize until over a decade of watching this movie that the actor is Michael Keaton with no hair.
Imhotep is Batman confirmed.
I remember him as The Phantom before he was The Mummy.
@@Razgriz85 that was billy Zane but yeah they are really similar
Close, but no cigar, Imhotep is played by Arnold Vosloo, though similarity is uncanny.
Some of them have
Actually, I kind of wish more actors responded like The Rock here!! Yeah, his debut was screwed over... but he didn't go whining about it, and studios love him.
I don't get the amount of good will that Dwayne Johnson got when he was starting his movie career. I swear the reviews for the first like... 10 movies that he did said "This movie sucks and The Rock isn't very good in it but let's not write him off just yet." I have never seen any actor treated with as gentle of kids gloves as he got.
@@tinkerer3399 They're excited for what he's cooking.
@@tinkerer3399 he's a damn good actor
@@tinkerer3399 You have to meet him in real life to understand. Dwayne Johnson is just one of THOSE people, that is constantly cheerful, good natured, seemingly loves everybody, and doesn't get upset at stupid stuff. In other words, he wasn't raised in Hollywood, like 90% of today's Hollywood actors/actresses were (which is why most of them, in real life, are shit people). So it's totally believable that Directors and Producers would keep giving Dwayne chance, after chance, after chance, to redeem himself.
@@tinkerer3399 To be honest, just between us. I cannot think of single his movie that wouldn't fit description "This movie sucks and The Rock isn't very good in it". Like last 5 movies i saw with Rock everybody is like "This is the best movie ever' and in the end its always the lowest grade comedy i can think of, with huge budget, but still horribly boring and unfunny.
In its defense, it's _infinitely_ better than Tomb of the Dragon Emperor...
The first time I watched was with my dad. We rented the mummy movies to enjoy them and laughed our asses off. Then we learned there was a spin-off prequel of the Scorpion King. That was honestly great and ridiculous. Especially after learning that movie got a prequel that lead to a bunch of movies and we stopped after the second prequel. Anyway, watch The Scorpion King. Dwayne johnson is actually fun in it.
If you think that someone that unironically loves this movie can't cry laughing at some of these scenes... you're wrong XD
it's kinda like we also lose how chessy it is at points.
Very true. Especially with the framing set up in this review.
Can confirm.
I unironically love this movie and yes there are PLENTY moments to laugh at it
As a fan of the first 2 Mummy films, I completely agree. You can love these movies and laugh at the same time.
The saddest part of this movie was the bird getting killed.
Poor Horus...
Been a very long time since I've seen this movie, but what bird?
@@Razgriz85 Ardeth used to have a falcon called Horus who was shot by one of Imhotep's guys, if I don't remember well
@@Razgriz85 ardeth's falcon, Horus. Got shot out of the sky as he was sending it to get help iirc.
Anything but Horus
Watched this review over again just because of the opening.
That "The Rock"-Skit at the beginning is golden.
My favorite line from this when the henchmen brought the kid water and hes all, "No ICE!??!" Total smartass lmao
"The sister of his long lost lover" ... pretty sure Anakhsunamon was the Pharaoh's Mistress not his daughter
You are correct sir, and NC doesn't pay attention
Imhotep going "noooo!" when the scorpion king gets stabbed made me howl with laughter when I first saw it as a kid. It's still so out of nowhere absurd 😁
you mean "NIIIIIIII!" XD
The timing of that is pure comedy
I never saw this film but I reacted the same way when I saw that here. It's like a Vegas show with the fire behind him (the fire made it even funnier).
Still a better "Noooo!!!" than Anakin Vader's at the end of Episode III.
Brendan Fraser just needs his cup of coffee
Me and my homeboy died laughing at the part where Arnold Vosloo was like Noooo! The timing was really weird
I can’t lie, I love this movie. Maybe even more than the first one. These Mummy movies were just fun and silly and I enjoyed them for that reason I think
I love the mummy returns and the 1st mummy and 3rd mummy tomb of the dragon empire i love both Brendan Fraser's mummy movies trilogy and i agreed with you homie
The second one is definitely my favorite and I do rewatch it. Not so much the first two, other than two of the Benny scenes from the first 1.
@@lemotheemonemo indeed homie
1 and 2 are both great. They're simple action adventure movies they aren't supposed to be intelligent or thought provoking movies.
I don't really watch movies to think I watch them for entertainment so as long as they aren't boring I'll likely like them.
@@Gamesta100 absolute
Even his cat conquered the world “I’m God!”. All shall kneel before Chaplin The Catquerer! Lmfao 😆😂🤣
i already gave chaplin my soul.
Well the Egyptians did worship them
@@TheAlps36 That is true!
My personal rating with this trilogy:
The Mummy - Surprisingly good
The Mummy Returns - Surprisingly meh
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - Surprisingly bad
And there was no spinoff movie that had an ass load of sequels. Nope, those don't exist. Right? RIGHT?!
Saddest scene in this film:
Evelyn's death. Jonathan hugs Alex close to make him look away as Rick tearfully panics while Evelyn is struggling to tell Rick she loves him before she dies, and manages it with her last breath. Rick goes into full sobbing and whimpering, begging for her to come back. *It's one of the absolute finest performances Brendan Fraser has ever turned in.*
-Later: When Rick still reeling from Evy's death, meets the curator inside the pyramid. The look on his face as he walks in (with tear-stained eyes and a ghost-like expression)* is so heartbreaking.*
Until he played Robot Man in Doom Patrol, that is LEAGUES better than this, you can't argue with it
I agree and it still gets to me this day; fantastic performances, though and one of the saddest "deaths" in movie history. 😢
And it's completely overshadowed by that shit cgi Scorpion King...Seriously, nobody remembers how great Brendan Fraser was in that scene, he gave a legitimate Oscar caliber performance in that moment and nobody remembers it because everyones too busy laughing their asses off at the Scorpion King.
@@erichfiedler1481
Not wrong.
Stop pretending the performances in this movie are good. They are hilariously bad, and that scene was no exception.
Just remember one thing still about this movie, when the Anubis soldiers are tearing up everything for The Rock, one of them just throw a woman off of a building, and she does a female Wilhelm scream. Still this day, the sound effect makes me laugh
0:14-1:59 (Poor guy never saw it coming)
4:10-4:15 (Every dude on the internet)
4:56-4:59 (🤣🤣🤣)
5:19-5:26 (Accurate)
5:27-5:30 (Oh Brendan....)
8:02-8:08 (This is true)
9:23-9:28 (Thank you!)
18:22-18:26 (Yay I guess? 🤷🏻♀️)
20:03-20:10 (We have our ad!)
22:05-22:09 (Worst parents ever)
22:47-23:49 (At least he got an explanation)
25:29-25:33 (True)
26:17-26:21 (🤣🤣🤣)
26:39-26:44 (Not gonna lie, I always die laughing at that scene!)
26:58-27:05 (🤣🤣🤣)
“She’s the reincarnation of the daughter of the pharaoh and sister of imotep’s love”
“Wasn’t imotep’s love also the pharogh’s mistress?”
Mila was Evelyn's step mother not sister
I love when Doug doesn't even bother watching movies before doing reviews. Rachel Weiss's character is NOT the sister of Imhotep's lover. She's the DAUGHTER of the pharoah. Anck-Su-Namun is the pharoah's CONCUBINE.
Or sometimes the movie is so under investing he just doesn't care. I sure didn't. I remember seeing this dumbass movie but I forget every single detail outside of "Dumb cgi scorpion Rock"
Yeah, he is shit at research.
@@SwiftNimblefoot for a movie that deserves shit research
Unless he means it as a joke.......
Given how things often were in Ancient Egypt, the Pharoah's concubine *could* have been the sister of his daughter. (She could also have been Nefertiri's aunt, i.e. Pharoah's sister....)
Regarding the Whole CGI Rock, Dwayne Johnson He was still doing wrestling at this time so He could not Make it to the last scene, and only be in that first scene. So they where on a time budget so they had to Make do with a horrible CGI version of him.
that's the legit reason they did that CGI thing? holy shit
I feel like they should've used a more elegant solution, like perhaps given him a mask with the face of Dwayne, but opening the mouth to reveal a horrifying gaping maw with a lot of teeth and a long lashing tongue, so it would look more frightening and less silly.
That makes no sense, if hey knew he was still doing wrestling, the could have ordered the scenes better to let him do the two that he was supposed to be in.
@@TheKat12364 PLUS i think movies don't get made in chronological order, most of times they make all the scenes that take place on the same place before moving to the next location.
Everything on set is tightly controlled and planned out in well in advance. We are talking about a small army of people from camera operators to generator operators and TIME IS MONEY!! I can't count the number of times I've heard that phrase. There is no way they weren't aware of Mr. Johnsons schedule. Nor would they make a crapshoot about his availability for a key scene. They made the decision early on, due to the enormous amount of time it takes to make CGI, to go with what they ended up with.
18:34 That's because Imhotep got the eyes from the myopic adventurer, the one who couldn't see without his glasses.
26:42
I'm crying laughing!!!!
For the LAST TIME critic, the reason Imhotep thought Evelynn was his lost love was because he stole his eyeballs from a near-sighted guy and his blurry vision made him think Evelynn was his love!! How did he miss that in the first movie !?
Edit: Alright, the movie never said it out loud but it's highly suggested and it's a popular fan theory
Thanks, now another F### Ups list might get made! :D
Edit: Holy crap, This is probably the most likes I've ever gotten!!
That concept is never detailed in the movie so there's no reason to assume that.
....i actually never realized that until now XD thank you! That detail always confused me but now it makes sense. I thought he just grew his own eyes back or something after taking the guys.. Not sure why I thought that. Boy I feel dumb XD
That's a better explanation than was given in the movie, which was none.
How the fucking hell do you mix up a white, brown haired English women for a raven-haired Dark Skinned Egyptian girl? Unless the guy was legally blind. In which case, how the fuck was Imhotep not literally tripping over everything?
4:03.
Fun fact: The Rock's line translates to: "It's hot as Hell out here".
You learn that from deusdaecon reviews?
Not the best battle cry
What language is it
@@wcapewell3089 It's from the DVD commentary.
Funny how out of the whole cast, The Rock turned out to be the most prolific actor in the end. XD
Seriously. Oded acted in both and was instrumental to the success of the franchise, but Ardeth never got a spin off.
I enjoy this movie somewhat because of the ending. Imotep realising that his lover didn’t truly love him still breaks my heart each time, especially since I had my own break ups already
Actually they where not siblings. Anck-Su-Namun married the Pharao so she became a step-mother to Nefertiri.
Yeah critic saying that threw me off, its never mentioned they are sisters in the film or anything. Were the actual people in history sisters? Only explanation for that I can think of...
To be fair, the Pharaohs WERE known to marry siblings...
@@gRinchY-op5vr Ancient history student here and no Anck su namun and Nefertiti were not sisters in real life, in fact, she was Nefertiti's daughter and the wife of King Tut. I'm assuming that's where the name comes from, anyway. Plus, I thought in the movie they just call her "Nefertiti's dueling instructor". I don't think they actually refer to them as sisters though. I think the critic might be wrong in this case, but maybe I just have to watch the movie again. 🤷♀️
Thank you. Critic calling them sisters over and over was bothering me.
the first movie said that she was his mistress
What would have been worse would be reintroducing all the characters again, at least they treated this as a second movie, and knew the fans like we should know what's going on and who these characters are at this point.
"this was my first bus ride"
that guy clearly has barely rode any modern vehicles, you can kinda see in the first film while on the plane he has a face of "THIS IS AMAZING!!!" i guess he only used animal transportation before, he never really drove a car or anything like that
27:40 This moment remains impactful. In this moment, we see the true death of Imhotep. He's survived worse, sure, but this was what he survived it for. He would endure anything for his love. He has endured millennia of agonies for his love. And in the end, she abandoned him to save herself.
We don't feel angry, we feel the hurt in his eyes. Imhotep may have ended up a monster, but it was that human longing that it all originated from. Without it, he is truly dead. And we feel sadness for him.
Critic: Could we cut it from the movie and miss nothing? Yes. Then why is it in this!!!
Rob: Well the chart says...
Critic: @$&% THE CHART!!!
Rob:....alright then (unzips and removes pants and goes to chart)
Critic: JESUS CHRIST! WHAT THE...? IT WAS A FIGURE OF SPEECH!!!
Rob and the Chart moaning:ohhhhhhhhh, too late, ooooooooooohhhhhh yessss, yes yes yes yes!!!
Critic:...sigh, how’d we get here?
Critic: What Chart! Rob: Oh that's right I CG'd the chart too. Saved bucko bucks on the budget.
@@larrylaffer3246 Critic:....you’re still gonna try to have sex with it when I yell “%$&@ The Chart” and you say “ but the chart says” aren’t you?
Rob: I already am
@@victorm152 Critic: Congrats Rob you just took whatever little ad revenue we were getting and flushed it right down the toilet. "The Kohler EZ Flush Deluxe Toilet with built-in bidet now available at a Home Depot or Lowes near you!" "Only $99.99 a real steal of a deal as it combines european sophistication and american build quality in one convenient package" "Notice Toilet Built In Mexico." Rob: Really Doug even in an argument you still need to do a shameless plug? Doug: Well the office bills ain't gonna pay themselves Rob!
lmao ya know, that fits a little TOO WELL! XD
They weren’t sisters. Mila was Evelyn’s step mother.
That alone warranted a dislike for me for this video.
Does that really make it better? "I had the hots for your step mom"
It wasn’t very clear. That’s the movie’s fault.
I liked how Evie saved Rick. And when it came to the other couple, where Imhotep asked Anak for help and she abandoned her. He looked so heartbroken and the way he looked at Evie and Rick that all he did was for a woman who didnt love him as much as his enemies did each other...
I felt for Imho
The only thing I can think of is that the writers and producers assumed (incorrectly) that since they were doing a sequel with existing, established characters from the original, they didn't have to worry about "wasting time" with character development and could focus more on flashy action sequences.
The second movie isn't as good as the first, but it's still epic and I love it. What? No there is no third movie. You don't understand, there is no third movie.
There. Is. No. Third. Movie.
*Red lens flare* YOU CANNOT TELL ME THERE IS NO THIRD MOVIE!!! I DON'T FUCKING FORGET KING GHIDORAH!!!!
I frankly prefer the second to the first. The third was not as bad as everyone say, if the villain was weaker though.
There is no third movie in Ba Sing Se.
Same. I'm very tolerant to bad cgi, and I saw the movies in french, so the acting sound way less unnatural. But the third one is so boring...
Oh I didn’t think the third one was all that bad. I mean it was bad sequel bad but not awful
They weren't sisters? Evelyn was pharaohs daughter and anoksunamun was pharaohs mistress. Remember thats why in the entire series started. Only pharaoh was allowed to have sex with her. So her and imohotep came up with the murder suicide plot. Additionally, They didnt come up with the reincarnation thing. They got that from the old universal movies. Its stupid either way of course you could just ask well why doesn't he remember pharaohs daughter?
Yeah. He confused facts here
even worse future wife. It even says it in the subtitles after the fight
Well I mean its an easy movie to mock without just making up stuff.
@@GreenHatPanda did it? I am way more familiar the first film. I was under the impression she was more of a concubine/ sex slave.
Doug probably hasn't seen the movie in a while and has the plot threats mixed up.
One thing that really bugs me about this movie is that like a lot of media it depicts Anubis as evil which he wasn’t when there’s already a perfect Egyptian god to use for the role that being Seth
Any votes on Doug reviewing the third installment of the mummy series???
Good but I think Scorpion King first
Even back in the day, that CG was terrible.
1993 Jurassic Park CG was better than the CG in this movie.
@@Razgriz85 sure was. Still is!
1991 T2 was better
For all of this movie’s flaws, I still really enjoy it and unlike the Rise of Skywalker, I feel like this movie doesn’t take away anything from the characters
I wish it had a little bit more character moments and them being a little less badass
DOUCHIE MCNITPICK: "In your Mummy Returns Movie Review, Anck-Su-Namun and Nefertiri are not sisters! Nefertiri is the Pharaoh's daughter and Anck-Su-Namun is the Pharaoh's mistress! If I can't trust an internet celebrity who watches cartoons and shouts obscenities, than who can I trust?!"
Wasn't Anck-Su-Namon the stepmother of Evie/Nefertiri because she was about to marry the pharaoh that was Nefertiri's father but was secretly seeing Imhotep? But even if she was Nefertiri's sister, it wouldn't have been out of the realm of possibility she married their father, because sick as that is, the pharaohs were known to marry their own daughters to consolidate power.
Yeah, They were not sisters, in the movie it clearly states that Evie was his daughter and the other was his wife/mistress. I suppose it's possible he has Anck as a daughter/mistress, but the movie doesn't say that. I don't know why Doug is saying that they were sisters. But people make mistakes.