The Mummy Returns: Critic Reviews

80%

MovieWeb: 5 reviews

47%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

The sequel does little more than repeat the need-a-bigger-boat jokes, triple the digital effects, and forget entirely about the old Universal B-movies.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

There's more than a little unintentional humor in the picture.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

Fitfully entertaining.
Full Review » 11 years ago
David Hunter Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A bully follow-up to the 1999 international smash
Full Review » 11 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

20

A piss-poor mummy movie indeed that doesn't deliver a damn thing worth preserving.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

80

Very violent, mostly in comic-book terms.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

38

More or less a wholesale recycling of the 1999 original.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

34

...a computer generated stinker of a dud.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

100

The whole two-hours-plus affair just soars along, brainlessly and breathlessly.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews

63

The film's bloated ambition seems of a piece with its panting, happy-dog charm. [Blu-Ray]
Full Review » 4 years ago
Martin Scribbs Low IQ Canadian

The mummy may, but the audience shouldn't.
Full Review » 8 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

50

The Mummy Returns isn't concerned with character development or plot; it exists simply to please the audience with massive amounts of eye-candy.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Harry Guerin RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

60

With a few extra zeros on the budget this time around, Sommers runs riot.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

38

Feels like so much scrap metal picked up off the factory floor at the place where they made the first one.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jeffrey Chen Window to the Movies

50

There's really just not much to say about this movie. What you expect is what you get.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

75

An old-fashioned adventure yarn accelerated for a video-game era, an H. Rider Haggard novel rocketing by at 150 MPH.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette

Sommers showers us with noise and color, but the film rarely generates much in the way of real excitement. There's a freeze-dried feel to much of the movie...
Full Review » 10 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

60

Um filme que diverte a plateia durante cerca de duas horas, mas que e prontamente esquecido no momento em que as luzes se acendem.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies

63

The problem with The Mummy Returns is that it tries to qualify the need for a sequel with an extraordinarily unnecessary amount of plot.
Full Review » 10 years ago
David N. Butterworth Movie Boeuf

50

Funnier -- and scarier -- than Gone with the Wind!
Full Review » 11 years ago
Rob Vaux Flipside Movie Emporium

67

The Mummy Returns has everything a sugar-addled twelve-year-old could possibly want. I'll leave it to you to decide if that's a good or a bad thing.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

40

Bigger, faster, louder, MORE!
Full Review » 11 years ago
Bill Chambers Film Freak Central

38

The Mummy Returns is all but a patchwork quilt made up of, if not leftover scenes, then scrap ideas.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Wesley Lovell Oscar Guy

38

"The Mummy Returns" is a waste of celluloid, a waste of theater space and most of all, a waste of time.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Alex Ramirez Cinenganos

50

Se trata solo de algo divertido para pasar el rato.
Full Review » 11 years ago