Imhotep originally mistook Rachel Weisz's character for being his girlfriend reincarnated, so the use of a woman who looks exactly like her while creating this new tangent needed to be developed differently. Another tangent that could have been better developed was the rivalry between Imhotep's girlfriend and whatever her name was. The addition of The Scorpion King was an interesting effort to give the film a new antagonist, but the lack of screentime didn't work well in this tangent's favour. The only references to the previous film are done to fill in the narrative gaps about who Imhotep is, and why he is the way he is. One thing that is immediately obvious is that the sequel was very much intended to be a film that could be enjoyed without ever having seen the original. The Mummy Returns is easy to see as being another sequel churned out to satiate the greedy money-machine that Hollywood has become, but it has a few things working for it. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and Arnold Vosloo were very well chosen for their roles. And if there is one thing The Mummy did well, it was entertain. In the end, what really counts when determining a film's quality is the level to which it can entertain. No is to GoldenEye (thankfully), I suppose comparisons between one non-stop adventure film and other are inevitable. While the two movies are about as similar as Dr. When The Mummy hit theatres in 1999, critics everywhere panned it as being a poor man's Indiana Jones.

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