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Show \ MAY 9, 2001 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER \ | - oe 3 7 Sees Cruise oe RYVCehyls REVIEW To THE PERFECT VACATION! |. . - Funny Mummy - DAVID GERMAIN AP MOVIE _ Namun, friend. WRITER = td \ an “Mexico | Alaska 5 S resurrected girl ea eeee sense serene Goofy as the elon is, writer-director The Mummy Returns is at least-as Stephen Sommers, who also made big, dumb, corny and overloaded with the first movie, does a nice job hitting visual excess as its predecessor. _ the buttons that worked two years And like The Mummy, a surprise — ago while ladling on new layers of hit two years ago, the sequel offers a. silliness that should click with the lot of good-natured fun (he cee same audience. guiltily). We learn secrets about Rick and _ Never mind that Boris Karloff musEvelyn’s “destinies.” We discover their tered more chills with a single glance cosmic connections to Imhotep. We flicks are and Fraser survivors (and Owners Lower Their Payments And Put Cash In Their Pockets humor. gets to Heber City, UT- Because interest rates have dropped behave a bit more bookishly, while Weisz throws can now lower their house — decedents) from Seems that if the Scorpion King can be defeated, Imhotep and his gang will gain control of the army of Anubis, an invincible band of werewolflike troops. that will allow the mummy to rule the world. Since that aul be Ad for the rest of us, the O’Connells, Evelyn’s idiot brother Jonathan (John Hannah) and their mysterious guardian angel Ardeth Bay (Oded Fehr) set off again to put all these dead creatures back in their sarcophagi. Patricia Velasquez, seen brcty in The Mummy, gets a beefed-up role this time as the blackhearted Anck-Su- payments. Many are able to is that it doesn’t try to step back and put’ the romantic leads at odds the way they were in the. first movie. Sommers. helping consumers save money since _last month, home owners O’Connells rub off on each other. ~The most refreshing thing about this sequel the first movie. Adventurous rogue Rick. O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) and brainy Egyptologist Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) now are married and living in London with their precocious son Alex & reddie Boath). The mummy Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), dispatched by Rick and: Evelyn i in the first movie, is resurrected again by evil forces who need him to battle another ancient villain, the Scorpion King (professional _ wrestling’s The Rock, who definitely ~ should not quit his day job). | Mortgage has been so dramatically over the the more punches as the old-married Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell and Arnold . aeIeO as Imhotep in The Mummy Returns. Interest Rates Let Home 1994. They can explain the _ best way for you to take advantage of the current market conditions. Call. lower their payment and put today to find how they can « money in their pocket by refinancing. Madison | help you. 435.654. LOAN(S626) .. says he wanted to break that sequel dh cliche by showing the O’Connells as a couple more in love as the years pass. Nice touch. By definition of seuuel one-upsmanship, Sommers had to outdo The Mummy for digitally created mon- sters. But all the gazillions of giant bugs, jungle dwarves, Anubis warriors and other beasties don’t make The Mummy Returns a better movie. There’s just more of these computergenerated creations running around, . faster, louder and, at times, headacheinducing. . If the sequel surpasses the origi- ISHING ALL MOTHERS, ‘ GRANDMOTHERS, AND -MOTHERS-TO-BE THE HAPPIEST OF © nal, it’s not for the computer effects. The Mummy Returns is at its strongest with some cleverly staged real-world stunts. The computer animation, while impressive, occasional- ~ Moruers’ Days ly looks so cartoonish it detracts and distracts from the overall movie. © Maybe it’s a case of filmmakers giving the people what they want. Or . (CELEBRATE AT THE BLUE Boar INN maybe it’s just a case of a reviewer _overly fixated on how much creepier Karloff was than a digitized corpse. The Mummy Returns, a Universal release, is rated PG-13 for Running time: 129 minutes. | : },/ BRUNCH © 10:00 UNTIL §:30 SUNDAY May 13. One smart readeris worth a thousand boneheads. = FH Bhi Boar sun Menken COURIER WASATCH COUNTY & RESTAURANT | 1239 Warm Sprinc Roap Mipway RESERVATIONS 435 654 1400 Wasatch County’s Source for News Be smart. Write us. letters@wasatchcountycourier.com ne the Lo Alex enhances the cast with cute pluck imagery and a bunch of likable, lunkheaded heroes. 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