"That's RIGHT pal. The fur is gonna FLY!!!"
The biggest surprise in the newest Mummy movie, aside from how lame it is, comes during the overlong narrative’s midway point. During yet another action setpiece altercation set in a mountain temple, those irrascible O’Connells appear down for the count. Jet Li and his minions are just blowing everything up. Luckily, our heroes’ pretty Asian guide knows Abomidable Snowman-ese. A few seconds later, and a group of bitmap Bigfoots show up to kick some bad guy booty. Then they stick around to illustrate avalanche survival strategies. Yeah Eastern Sasquatch! (More in my review coming this week).
From a summer film perspective, it appears that the season officially ends with the July 18 release of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. And why not? Can you name another movie opening in late July (or the entirety of August) that you’re dying to see? There’s a second X-Files, a new Will Ferrell comedy (that looks like every other Ferrell comedy), a third Mummy and a slew of films that could be good but don’t generate watercooler conversation.