Mums the word
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 11:45PM Well that is a very cliched title, you say?
Take a 100 cliches, from the Cliched book of Cliches (which I will write if it does not exist already) and string them together within a span of ninety minutes and add some special effects that make no sense, and what have you?
Mummy 3!
There are no "mummys" in this movie. No, I take that back. There are two mummy's. One is the hero's mother and the other one is the heroines mother. One mummy is immortal and the other one is well, just a mummy!
For some reason, there are skeletons in outfits which run around (and are referred to as Mummy's) and Yetis? which are too clearly, men in rubber suits. They did not even bother to make the effect "special". It reminds you of the duct taped monsters in Johnny sokko and the Giant Robot from when I was a kid when computer aided tricks were not around. And three headed Jet Li dragons and, and and and.....
Sentimental mushy family cliches for a full 10 minutes in the middle of what is supposed to be a masala movie with special effects to numb your already dead brain!
An entertainer, they said!
Fancy trailers, with the olympics, they did!
Mummy, they said!
Young Luke, "insult your love for movies", is what they did...
Bah!
ps. Note to self. No more watching sequels with #3 or beyond in their name, unless released in DVD. No more watching sequels, unless anyone and everyone we talk to gives it rave reviews.
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