A plague of locust, the waters flow as blood, the plague befalls us all and the skies rain fire!!!!!!!!!!
That’s enough to put anyone off a holiday to Egypt, is it not?
However, if you are the adventurous type, who likes to grapple with a 3000-year-old decomposing villain, then pack you trunks, bucket and spade, and flag down the nearest camel.
It was on last night on sky premier, and it must be the 6th time I have sat through this movie, and after reading some of the opinions on the Mummy I guess you wonder why?
Comedy, entertainment and a small adding of shock (first time anyway). Its what it is all about.
The people amongst you who went to the pictures, or hired it out from Blockbusters, and found it not scary, I would just like to say HELLO!!!, it is a 12 rating, hardly in the same league as the exorcist is it.
If anyone has not seen it, well read on and see if I can spur you on to run down to the video shop and rent it.
Imagine Indiana Jones meets Bruce Willis meets Hugh Grant!
Add a touch of one liners from movies such as Top Gun, and the Temple of Doom, a few Snobby English attitude circa any movie the U.S.A. make with a supposedly English person in them (they make the Scottish out to be great!) put these contents into a blender, and almost 2 hours later, you have had a roller coaster ride into a hilarious spoof scary movie.
The hero is rescued from the Gallows by the voluptuous virgin-style English Lady, who longs to be accepted for a serious archaeologist. The American Hero knows the way to the ancient City of the Dead, which has a similar name to that toilet roll the Bears advertise on T.V. Carmen ultra or something.
Her brother, the bumbling Hugh Grant act a like, who is very familiar if you have seen 4 Weddings and a Funeral, or most other upper class comedies of English origin, has stolen a metal box from the American when he was drunk in a bar.
Well, they team up of course, and race against yet more Americans, to recover lots of treasure and be happy ever after.
Wrong! They wake up a not so dead mummy, who then causes havoc with the local climate and health dispensary products, resulting in all kinds of dilemmas.
I don’t feel I will be spoiling this film for you if I say it all works out fine in the end, as they always do.
If you like Indiana movies, carry on movies etc, you can’t go wrong with this
However, if you expect George of the Jungle, to play a serious role in a movie called The Mummy, then you are sadder than a great big sad thing!