Two scenes where women engage in knife fight, once to entertain an audience, the other with the intent to kill. Men fly through air and smack into stone pillars. Mummy sucks life out of man, decomposing him. Stolen bus driven recklessly through streets. Gunfight involving many people, two men fall into fire and are burned, many others are shot and started on fire. Partially decomposed animated characters seen many times. Man with machine gun shoots repeatedly, killing people. Extended fight evolving knives and swords. Woman threatens man with poisonous snake. Men attacked by scarab beetles that crawl under skin. Boy is stranded on scaffold while man attempts to kill him. Boy shoots men with slingshot three times. Several large battles with hand-to-hand combat. Violence details: A decapitated head followed by a body is briefly seen. A few “scare” scenes included where something suddenly appears on screen. Violence depicted in an adventurous swashbuckling style with little blood. We’re all for a family adventure, but with the amount of violence in this flic, mommies everywhere may want to leave the kids at home. Now married with an eight-year-old son, they still can’t resist digging up the past and getting into trouble. Why is The Mummy Returns rated PG-13? The Mummy Returns is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for adventure action and violence.Įgyptian adventurers Rick and Evelyn are back again. Starring Brandon Fraser Rock Dwayne Johnson Rachael Weisz Patricia Velasquez. With a happily married couple for lead characters, only a few mild profanities, and the most sexual incident being yet another brief shot of Patricia Velasquez in her body-paint outfit, it’s unfortunate The Mummy Returns resorts to fists and bullets to raise the audience from the dead. While this is no tiptoe through the pyramids, parents will find little other objectionable content unless depictions of reincarnation (a pivotal plot element) are a concern. After more than two hours of seeing people stabbed, shot, beaten, slammed, thrown, decapitated, pulled in half, and munched (remember those beetles?), my numbed brain could hardly detect what little suspense was left in the script, leaving me to conclude that this Mummy is more violent, but perhaps less scary than its predecessor. Needless to say, with this many people wanting a piece of the action, there is little time for dialogue between fighting. With the help of his assistant (who looks amazingly like the woman Imhotep was having the affair with 3000 years earlier), Imhotep is resurrected, setting the stage for two powerful evil forces to contend over possession of the armlet that is the key to controlling the immortal militia. Meanwhile the curator of the British Museum (Alun Armstrong) secretly excavates the remains of Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo)-the bad mummy from the first film, and brings them to London. Taking it home to England, young Alex can’t resist trying it on, but doing so starts a chain of events that lead to the return of the Scorpion King who commands the army of the dead. One of the little trinkets they find is a scorpion-shaped bracelet once worn by the Scorpion King (played by The Rock). Along for this expedition is their eight-year-old son Alex (Freddie Boath) who digs in the sand while mom and dad look for artifacts. Since the close of the last movie, he has married Evelyn the Egyptologist (Rachel Weisz), who has become a mommy of a different sort. In 2021, for example, he starred in Steven Soderbergh's crime drama "No Sudden Move," and is set to appear opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's upcoming drama "Killers of the Flower Moon."įraser will also play the villain in an upcoming "Batgirl" film.Obviously unable to learn from past experience, Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) is willing to unwrap yet another Mummy in this sequel. The actor also appeared on numerous TV shows, voicing characters on "King of the Hill" and "Fairly Oddparents," and guest-starring on "Scrubs" and "Titans." He also had recurring roles on "Texas Rising," "The Affair," and "Doom Patrol."įraser has kept a lower profile in recent years, but is currently enjoying a new phase of his career, which some fans have dubbed the "Brenaissance." Jordin Althaus/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Imagesįollowing his star turn as O'Connell (a role he reprised for the 2001 sequel "The Mummy Returns"), Fraser continued to act, playing lead roles in films including "Bedazzled," "Journey to the Center of the Earth," "Inkheart," and "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." It often indicates a user profile.īrendan Fraser on Busy Philipps' show "Busy Tonight" in 2019. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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