(Rated PG-13, 2 hrs. 4 mins)
In 3067 B.C. after a vicious campaign lasting several years, Scorpion King is driven into the desert and over time will return to the sands to be awakened again (or something like that). Fast forward 1935, 10 years after the events of the first film when Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) is married to Evie (Rachel Weisz) with their son, the scene-stealer, Alex (Freddie Boath). Evie begins having flash backs of been here done that and suddenly a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep (Vosloo) resurrected in the British Museum, determined to fill his quest for immortality. Joining with another force set loose in the world, and everything depending on a Scorpion bracelet (don’t ask), with seven days before the Scorpion awakens, all forces clash (and believe me there’s a lot of them), in “Romancing the Stone” on speed style movie. John Hannah as Uncle Jonathan joins in the wild chases that are certain to put young Alex into therapy for many years. The Mummy makes for the busiest, fastest and most furious two hours of too much going on at once. Can you say overkill? But, its one saving grace is the special effects that even put “Titanic” to shame.
