Top Movies at the Box Office this Week

This    Last              Film
Week  Week            Title

1.     -        Driven
2.     1        Bridget Jone’s Diary
3.     2        Spy Kids
4.     3        Along Came a Spider
5.     4        Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
6.     6        Blow
7.     -        Town and Country
8.     -        The Forsaken
9.     7        Joe Dirt
10.   5        Freddie Got Fingered

Review of The Mummy Returns

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Patricia Velazquez, Oded Fehr, John Hannah, Dwayne Johnson

Synopsis: The Mummy Returns is set in 1935, 10 years after the events of the first film. Rick O’Connell (Fraser) is now married to Evelyn (Weisz), and the couple has settled in London, where they are raising their 9-year-old son Alex (played by screen newcomer Freddie Boath). When a chain of events finds the corpse of Imhotep (Vosloo) resurrected in the British Museum, the mummy Imhotep walks the earth once more, determined to fulfill his quest for immortality. But another force has also been set loose on the world… one born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, and even more powerful than Imhotep. When these two forces clash, the fate of the world will hang in the balance, sending the O’Connells on a desperate race to save the world from unspeakable evil, and rescue their son before it is too late.

Review: After waiting 15 minutes for the theatre to fill and everyone to quiet down, the lights finally dimmed.  I was happy to finally sit down a movie I had been wanting to see, and not one I forced myself to see.  2 hours and some odd minutes later, I walked out of the theatre, again happy I ventured out to the movies that evening.  The movie was excellent.  The special effects in this sequel blew away the original and overall the plot was not to bad.  If you can get passed some bad dialogue that seemed to creep up from time to time, then you will enjoy this movie.

Rating:  If you enjoyed the first Mummy movie, then you must go see this one.  It is setting up the plot for the last installment, The Scorpion King, which is due out in theatres sometime next year.  I gave the movie 3 and a half herons for its great special effects and taking a chance on The Rock to portray their new addition to the Mummy chronicles.

Entertainment News:

The Scorpion King: Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson is talking about his upcoming Mummy Returns prequel, The Scorpion King. Here is what he had to say about getting the part: “My agent is like, ‘Hey, they really like what they see, and it’s a thought right now that they might make a movie surrounding the Scorpion King’s life.’ I couldn’t believe it.”  He also went on to comment about what the third movie will be about: It’s 10 years before The Mummy Returns, and before he became a king, he was an Egyptian hit man. The first couple of scenes you see his brother murdered in front of him. That is the last of his family. So he takes an oath to kill the sorcerer who sees the outcome of every battle.”  Lastly he was asked if would use his WWF trademark eyebrow in the upcoming film and he replied, “I will always take care of the Rock fans.”

Spiderman: Can’t wait to see the new Spiderman trailer?  Well you must wait a few months longer.  Word is that the first real trailer will not be released until July and that it will show footage of fights between the Green Goblin and Spiderman. Fear not I have a little something that should tide you over.  Click here to see some test footage for the trailer.

Rental Picks:

I saw 28 days with Sandra Bullock the other day and was surprised to find that I kind of liked it.  I suggest watching this one when it hits your cable movie channels.  At the moment, I am anxiously awaited the DVD release of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon due out next month (I can’t say enough good stuff about this movie *g*).

Guess that Quote: (Answer will be announced next week)

Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Last Weeks Quote: “Empire had the better ending. Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader is his father, uh, Han gets frozen, taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that’s what life is, a series of down endings. All “Jedi” had was a bunch of Muppets.” – Clerks

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