Wonderful character development!

As Good As It Gets

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

In the midst of the inexplicable success of 1999's CGI-fest 'The Mummy', this sequel to the previous year's 'Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy' slithered out onto the straight-to-video market. Like that first entry, this is cheap, hackneyed, badly acted and clichéd. However, whereas the first film barely featured a Mummy at all, this time we see more of the creature – much more. Christopher Bergschneider, billed as Anton Falk, plays a shorter, more overweight Mummy than I have ever seen, and is impossible to take seriously. By its very nature, such a creature should be skeletal, cadaverous, and that is not the case here. So it must be tongue-in-cheek. You would think. But no – it is played straight, or as straight as can be by this group of second graders. Strangely (or not), hunky braggart Morris (Michael Lutz) is the most convincingly played – you fully believe he is a lazy, arrogant, ignorant braggart. Also, he clearly fills the tight boxer-shorts he parades round in well enough for the casting director.So then, an ancient Mummy has been found and placed in an insecure country compound and is placed on a slab, entirely open to the peccadillos of the young students staying there. Cretin Morris takes away an amulet so to impress chipper, chirpy Janine (Michelle Erickson), whilst Norman (Trent Latta), the butt of everyone's jokes – who initially appears to be autistic – is actually an Aztec priest. Luckily for Morris, Janine is instantly in love with him when he gives her the amulet, so that's nice. The big fat Mummy, buried with a circular blade (which makes you wonder why he didn't use it to slice his bonds and escape his incarceration all those thousands of years ago) stalks the compound during an endless storm after the picturesque young people. For a compound, the location seems more like an average sized house, which is adequate, as only about 7 people are staying there.Actually, I quite enjoyed this. It's not quite so bad it's good, but it is along those lines. The dialogue is ham-fisted and clichéd, but it's eventful, well-paced and as cheesy as a cheese-burger in a stilton sandwich. It is an old style chiller – although not really very chilling – with a small budget and an undistinguished cast. It just isn't particularly good on several levels, but perfectly enjoyable on another."Your time on this planet is over, Don!" I'm pretty sure that dialogue has as much to do with Bram Stoker as everything else on display here. And yet I still enjoyed this more than the Brendan Fraser efforts.

Somebody, please, for the love of Christ Possessed, give David DeCoteau one of those "Worst Director Ever" awards. Or at least have the world know about this through other means. A moronic idiot should never be allowed to play with a camera and a strobe lightning effect device. I'm not laughing.A bunch of teenagers on a location that looks like a mansion with some dorm rooms. They're supposed to be taking some extra geology or history classes (during summer, is my guess). There's a dried-up mummy stored on a table in the mansion, and some nerd awakens it with some ancient evil plastic scepter thing (or whatever). The mummy looks like some dude with a Halloween mask, wrapped in dusty toilet paper. Some teenagers get killed, and I can't even remember how (I saw this flick a few weeks ago and I don't have Alzheimer, so go figure...). And then this movie ends at some point.The most fascinating thing about this film, is director David DeCoteau's idea of suspense. Building up tension, to him, equals having someone walk around in the house, while the mummy is shuffling through the frame in the background of the shot, like some stoned dude who got lost on his way to the toilet. While that sounds more like comedy to me, it's not even funny.

Rented this on the advice of "You'll love it". This was obviously for the comedy. I've never laughed that much in my life. There is nothing WHATSOEVER frightening about the 'Mummy' (who looks suspiciously like a fat man wrapped in toilet roll) and the acting is terrible. The plot is dull and the sets (well, set, as there is only one) are cardboard-like. I won't even begin on the continuity, just think magically disappearing blood and you have the start of it. Add to this the usual sprinkling of stereotype teenagers, some voodoo magic, dodgy costumes and, voilà! However I would watch this again just to see the slowest, least frightening Mummy in history stalking his victims with a rubber knife. This film is great...if you want to cry with laughter!

before the film even kicks off you know its gonna be awful. i managed to watch through it, and actually laughed myself stupid! but i'm pretty sure thats not what David decoteau was hoping for... where to start... the mummy itself. this is supposed to be an Aztec corpse, thousands of years old. its FAT. and slow. the effects are absolutely abysmal, and no matter how much fake lightning you through behind it, its still not scary. next up is the actors. where they came from, no-one knows. where they've gone, no-one cares. each character that face the mummy turn to the "hands-on-face-scream-lungs-out-but-dont-run" technique! the main character, norm, has the most IRRITATING habit of raising his eyebrows every time he delivers 2 words of his dialogue. the hero Dom is just soooo boring (and gets a limp for no reason in the big climax finale), the female lead Stacey seems determined to make sure her friends know shes a virgin (nt surprising when you see her!) the dialogue is also HILARIOUSLY bad. such ones that tickled me are "i'll just slip into something a little more... naked." "big spiders, wherever you are... stay there", "they need a virgin... Stacey's a virgin............. STACEY!!!!!!!" and the best of all "all our friends are dead..... but i wanna get on with my life". watch it, for comedy value. PS. large consumption of alcohol before viewing strongly recommended!