![]() ![]() Two years may have passed since the release of The Mummy, but the sequel is set eight years on. Because, just like the original, The Mummy Returns is simply huge fun and not to be taken seriously at all. I mean, if it's 1933, why does Rachel Weisz look like she has escaped from the Seventies in her ankle-length cardigan and high-heeled boots? Come to that, why does she keep having flashbacks to Ancient Egypt? And what about the bracelet that I've forgotten to tell you about?Īll never really does become clear (at least not for adults), but that doesn't matter a jot. Ten minutes into The Mummy Returns I'm not sure I'm still with me, let alone with Stephen Sommers, who wrote and directed the smash-hit original a couple of years ago and now returns with this spectacular but brain-challenging sequel. Where, according to a voice-over, 'they wait to become an army once again'. They win a lot of battles too, but then they lose a big one - and this time their leader disappears in a flash of light and the doggy soldiers turn to desert sand. In return for his soul, he gets an instant oasis, supernatural powers and a new army - only this time they look like dogs. So he does what every self-respecting Ancient Egyptian warrior king would do - he makes a deal with the scorpion god. So he skulks off into the desert, where he does a lot of very bad acting and his soldiers die of thirst. There's this Ancient Egyptian warrior king, see, in 3,000-and-something BC, who wins a lot of battles and then starts to lose them. "Finally, was like after five minutes, 'Guys, let's get back to work.Don't worry, I kept telling myself, it will make sense in a minute. "I looked at her and I think she started busting up laughing and then I started busting up laughing because she was laughing," Guzman remembered. Sure sounds like it-especilly when they had an unexpected "giggle fest" in bed. ![]() She said, 'We're going to do this we're going to do that. "She was the one who kept me at ease," Guzman said. They are uncomfortable, but your job as an actress or an actor is to make it believable and this movie in particular…hinges on if that was believable, that it was enough to make this guy go insane."īefore they shot the scene, Guzman says he told Lopez he was nervous because it was the first time he would be naked and doing such naughty things on camera. ![]() Stands-in just wouldn't work, Lopez said, because they needed things as close to real as possible. ![]()
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