Critic Reviews

Digs up both laughs and chills from timeworn material.

Cheerful, slightly cheesy entertainment that uses the latest special-effects techniques to breathe life into a venerable film tradition.

Even if The Mummy is imitation Spielberg, it offers more bang for the buck than we're used to getting.

Stephen Sommers' throwback to adventure films and screwball comedies has managed to become a modern classic, and a paean to a type of movie that rarely gets made these days.

There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.

A pretty good job of zipping things along and occasionally scaring us, and the digital effects are fun.

This remake is like a live-action cartoon: all brio and no brains.

A well-crafted, great looking adventure, with some spirited performances.

Here in the rotting depths of pulp horror/adventure territory, that's the entire point of the exercise.

There is much to look at--it's like spending two hours in Michael Jackson's Undead Neverland--but not a lot at stake.