The best part of the movie is seeing Rachel Weisz as Evy go from a bookish damsel in distress in the first movie to a drop dead gorgeous, absolute badass in this movie. I mean how can you not have a massive crush on her?!?!
@@haseoxv9508 she didn't like the script for the third movie and honestly, fair. I've watched the first Mummy movie a ton of times and the second a lot too, but i've only watched the third once. Though maybe i would have liked it a bit more with the original cast, it just wasn't the same without her.
Rachel Weisz & Patricia Velasquez trained & rehearsed for months to perform the Nefertiri - Anck-Su- Namun original fight seen at Court without using stunt-women.
This is why 2 is better. Everyone's such a badass in this one. It's definitely the same formula as 1 but they got like 25% more awesome out of the formula this time so now I just watch this one and don't need to watch the first anymore!
And it was filmed really well. Like we could actually see what they were doing and that it was actually them doing it. We didn't get any Bourne Supremacy shaky cam, which unfortunately too many movies have adopted.
Contrary to a popular misconception, the throne room fight between Weisz and Velasquez DID use stunt double. (That's why they wore the masks) Twins Dee and Carly Harrup 22, and Nikki Berwick 23, deserve credit for their impressive work on that scene. All 3 were nominated that year at the World Stunt Awards. Kelly Dent and Lynda Van Den Berg also doubled for Rachel in the film. Source: The Brendan Fraser Factum and IMDb.
55:14 Agree with Kristen. You are hating Imhotep throughout the two movies but also loving their love story. But then you see a look of complete heartbreak on his face when he realises that it was all for nothing. Especially when he sees the manifestation of true love in Rick and Evie. Such a well done scene.
Yessss weirdly I felt so bad for him the realization and disappointment ha me feeling for him it was very clear their eternal love only went so far, yet after just being brought back to life she still was willing to die to save rick.
The way he said everything with his face in that ending scene is breathtaking. He comes to peace with them seeing their love is true and then let’s himself go. 10/10 acting from Arnold Vosloo.
Man murdered; was tortured; cursed; eaten and buried alive; died twice; and, resurrected twice, all to be with her. And she runs out on him when he needed her most. Evil doesn't pay in the end but still.
If you didn't notice when Evelyn fell off the boat , that's what happened to her in the past life as well. Nefertiri inadvertently leaned too far over the edge of the balcony and fell to her death. Despite having perished, Nefertiri's soul was cast adrift into the currents of time to be reborn once fate deemed the time right to revenge herself upon Anck-Su-Namun. This is why Evelyn is a reincarnation.
Jonathan’s character is underrated, he is a sharpshooter and WW1 Veteran and he comes across as a coward but he’s not. He’s just a fast talking swindler! I can’t remember if it was Dark Horse or Top Cow comics did a comic on his early adventures. 😎
This is the perfect equally competent male/female pair up. They rescue each other and neither is diminished to make the other one shine something Hollywood couldn’t get right before or since
When Kirsten said "salamah to you too.." i literally blushed.. i so love the fact that shes head over heels on Ardeth Bey.. crushing on him.. i just love u girl.. ❤
I find John Hannah is a bit of an underrated component of these films - He switches from comic relief to dramatic effortlessly which really makes the scenes around Evie's death work. You should check him out in Sliding Doors and Four Weddings And A Funeral, he is phenomenal in those
The whole time Imhotep kept saying their love was a true, powerful love but it was a selfish one. In the end Rick told Eve not to come help him because he would rather die than have her risk herself and she would rather risk herself than let him die. By contrast, Imhotep asked Ankhesenamun to risk herself to save him (selfish) and she wouldn’t (selfish). They’re love was not true and when he saw Rick and Eve he knew it.
This I would believe I’d because both Rick and Eve are Magi… it’s almost a retelling of the Gift of the Magi story that is sometimes told around Christmas time.
@@johnkelly90 Dude...no? Medjai (what Rick and Evy are) are desert police. They protected Thebes when it had no military a long time ago. The Magi are pilgrims who wanted top pay homage to Jesus on his birth. Nothing about this story is a retelling of Gift of the Magi, that's a story about two people wanting to gift each other everything and not realizing that the material value of the gift is inconsequential to the idea that they were even thinking of each other. Medjai and Magi sound similar, but that's about it. The Magi weren't even explicitly from Egypt, just somewhere east of the West Bank, could have been any number of places.
Contrary to a popular misconception, the throne room fight between Weisz and Velasquez DID use stunt double. (That's why they wore the masks) Twins Dee and Carly Harrup 22, and Nikki Berwick 23, deserve credit for their impressive work on that scene. All 3 were nominated that year at the World Stunt Awards. Kelly Dent and Lynda Van Den Berg also doubled for Rachel in the film. Source: The Brendan Fraser Factum and IMDb
*Fun Fact:* During the shooting of The Scorpion King battle scenes, Dwayne Johnson caught a cold in the middle of the shoot. So everyone who is currently working on the movie asked if Dwayne could take it easy. But Dwayne still powered through shooting despite his cold and thus this movie made him a legendary superstar.
I will say something I didn’t realize until I was older, they did a great job at showing selfish love vs selfless love Evy was willing to die AGAIN if it meant saving the man she loved vs Anck-Su-Namun saving herself, and Rick telling Evy to run vs imhotep begging to be saved.
Rick was always wearing the leather band that their son took off in the first movie, so he could have easily had the mark and we never saw it. It makes me wonder if the sequel was already planned when they filmed the first movie.
Yep. And he had that small tattoo on his hand in the first movie, too (it can be clearly seen in the scene where he throws the chair at Beni), but for some reason that one isn't in the sequel.
♡ I need to recommend more movies starring *_Brendan Fraser_* ★ - *Blast from the Past* (1999) /Alicia Silverstone & Christopher Walken ★ - *Bedazzled* (2000) /Elizabeth Hurley ★ - *Journey to the Center of the Earth* (2008) /Josh Hutcherson BONUS TRACK ★ - *Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo* (1999) /starring Rob Schneider & *_Oded Fehr_*
"This would be like, a fun video game" Yeah haha... you would think so... the idea is amazing and you would also think with how big the movies were, they would get a solid studio. The first game was alright but the second was a buggy incomplete mess, though it was still fun to play as Imhotep in the museum and raise the mummies.
In the first movie, Evie told Rick "My mother was Egyptian", making her and Jonathan half Egyptian, so the reincarnation thing isn't as farfetched as it may seem, in terms of bloodline. Also, Rick was a soldier, and he was also wearing a leather wristband on the same wrist as the tattoo, so it's entirely possible that he had the tattoo then as well, but kept it covered. And in the first movie he also has a tattoo on that hand, but for some reason it's not shown in the sequel.
We all love Ardeth Bey. Oded Fehr was extraordinary as the character. My favorite scene with him on screen is when he leads the Madjai to their final stand against the Army of Anubis, ready to fight to death. A truly powerful performance and one of the scenes in the film that really stands out for me.
This is my favorite sequel of all time. When I was younger I would watch it on VHS and I rewinded the fighting scene with eve and Anuck repeatdely and I know the choreo and did it in my room. Eve was always a women I strived to be smart and kind along with not afraid to handle buiseness.
This was Dwayne Johnson's first movie role(they did him DIRTY with that cgi at the end smh), and he would reprise it in a spin off movie called The Scorpion King and it's awesome. You definitely need to watch it next, followed by The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (seriously, ignore those that say to skip that one, it's actually pretty good).
I think there might be scheduling issues with the Rock, forcing the makers to go the CGI route for the depiction. This was probably the only reason, because even in 2001, prosthetics were good enough to bring the face at least.
@@SouryaDP Exactly. There were some ROUGH cgi shots in this one. You'd think the cgi would have looked better with it being a sequel with a bigger budget.
@@passionsquietrage They did the effects studio dirty with the timeframe and budget. They cut the budget heavily for CGI and moved up the due date by almost half of what they were initially set for. There was an interview of some of the head effects guys and they even say that they're embarrassed of it, lol. But they said they had to especially rush the final CG by something like only a few months.
The best action scene to me is when rick catches the knife at its tip & throwing it right back. Plus Brandon Freasure is one of my top favorite actors.
Love this movie, despite the dodgy effects. I really like the 3rd one, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor", too. It has a different vibe, especially since they recast Eve with Mario Bello. She's awesome, but also very different from Rachel Weisz. It has some really fun set pieces and of course Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li. I think you should watch it. And "The Scorpion King" of course. Super fun!
Totally fun fact that awesome fight scene in ancient egypt between evy and anck su namun is actually done by them! No stunt doubles! Incredible women ❤❤
Contrary to a popular misconception, the throne room fight between Weisz and Velasquez DID use stunt double. (That's why they wore the masks) Twins Dee and Carly Harrup 22, and Nikki Berwick 23, deserve credit for their impressive work on that scene. All 3 were nominated that year at the World Stunt Awards. Kelly Dent and Lynda Van Den Berg also doubled for Rachel in the film. Source: The Brendan Fraser Factum and IMDb
Now don't watch 3rd one as it will ruin the memories only. It shows how important Rachel Weisz was for this franchise along with Brandon. The female lead in 3rd sucked the life out of it along with the dull story. Even they have a mature son which is another downgrade since this kid was so good
The Rock was me and my cousins' favorite wrestler back in the late 90s early 2000's, and the community was so mad at him when he left wrestling to start doing movies. They called him Hollywood and stuff and like that. I never stopped cheering for him though, and then he came back in 2004 and kicked Stone Cold Steve Austin's ass in a great fight!
49:46 when she says salama to you too and couple of more moments of her being hilarious and crushing over I was laughing with them this reaction was really enjoyable😂😂😂
Just to point out they literally chose well known names in Egyptian history for these characters in the first film like Imhotep who was Chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser (who was not the pharaoh in the movie they instead chose Seti I for his name) and Anck su namun or Ankhesenamun who was the queen to the Pharaoh Tutankhamen (yes King Tut) and her father was Akhenaten and her mother was Nefertiti (who were also Tutankhamen's parents, yes Tut and his wife were brother and sister). So Evy's character of "Nefertiti" they just took the name like they did with other characters, there is no historical connection and she is not "the Nefertiti".
On top of that, her name in the movie isn't even Nefertiti. It clearly says in the subtitles when they're speaking ancient Egyptian that her name is Nefertiri (R, not T), which is what Anck-Su-Namun says as well. People just can't pay attention any more.
These mummy series is my first english movies i had watched in theatre in my whole life ever. Im just 10 years old. So much excited and enthusiastic experience i had it.
As crappy as the CGI on The Scorpion King was, I love the fight between Rick and Imhotep, as well as the one between Evy and Ankh-su-namun. I also felt terrible for Imhotep when Ankh-su-namun ditched him inside that pyramid...at least she met her karma by falling into that pit of scorpions. Autism-fueled observation/side note: That snake that Evelyn kicked toward Rick is actually a milksnake. You can tell by the band pattern (red, black, yellow). If the band sequence was red, yellow, black, they'd have something to worry about because that's the band pattern of the venomous coral snake. Also, real scarabs were actually just dung beetles, who actually lay their eggs in balls of giraffe, elephant and rhinoceros dung. Two bonus fact/opinion tracks: I think Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be impressed with Evy because of that sai twirl. When Jonathan says "Hang on, Rick!!", My first response every time is "I don't think he was planning to let go"
The only reason I give it a meh on her being the reincarnation of Nefertiti is because in the first Evie explained her mother is Egyptian, so down the bloodline it works with the continuity. Until the 3rd 😂
The bad CGI was due to ILM being overworked with having to do the effects work on this film along with Jurassic Park III and Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, all released in the same Summer.
Definitely watch The Scorpion King with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Kelly Hu. A stellar spin-off. And the 3rd Mummy movie, Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, is pretty good. It doesn't have Oded Fehr, or Rachel Weisz as Evie (Maria Bello replaces her), but it has Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh. Director Steven Sommers is a producer for Mummy 3, with Rob Cohen stepping in as director. Cohen's work doesn't go with the "epic" feel; his films are much more "personal," which is one reason some people didn't like Mummy 3. But he's a solid director, known for films like Dragonheart (Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery), The Fast And The Furious (Paul Walker, Vin Deisel), and Daylight (Sylvester Stallone).
I didn’t notice this before but at 12:25 she could probably now fight because she can also fight later in the movie as the flashback character, this is probably a dash of that.
You can skip part 3, but if you want to have more experience in this world, "The Scorpion King" is actually pretty good. The CGI at the end was awful when it came out in theaters. I really wish they would just fix it using today's tech.
I'm a little disappointed you two weren't as crazy about this one as you were about the first one. I absolutely love this film. It built on the lore in a pretty cool way, it had a bigger adventure and story, Alan Silvestri's score was epic, and it developed Rick and Evey's characters more. I guess you could make a case that's convenient how Rick is a secret medjai warrior and Evey is a reincarnated Egyptian princess, but given how he's a former soldier and she's half Egyptian, it wasn't that much of a stretch. I don't know what you mean when you say "franchisey" and I especially don't understand the claim that it's slow in parts. Seriously? It was always on the go. I don't think anyone can disagree on the CGI Scorpion King monster. Even for 2001, that was awful lol. And yes, you should absolutely watch The Scorpion King. I would even recommend watching The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor. I don't know how you both will feel about it, but you might as well complete the trilogy.
This is the first I've heard someone say the first was better so confidently. I agree with you it's more epic and more developed than the first. It definitely doesn't add a whole new dimension than the first though, it just does more of what #1 did (in an even more fun way IMO), but maybe that's what they mean by franchisey, just going through the same beats as before.
The character that oded feher played did not have the amount if dialogue Kirsten wanted cause he was not a big a main character as rick and Evie like how they are more .akn characters they he is but l think he was in a lot more scenes then the first one he was in scenes in the beginning and end and middle a lot of the film so l don't think you can complain that he was not in enough of rhe film
As formulaic as this film may seem. There are SO MANY memorable scenes and moments throughout this film that just make it totally worth it! Would love to see a reaction to the Scorpion King it is a fun action flick!
51:40 If I remember correctly there was a strike or something at the time so the CGI animators weren't given time to fully render the Scorpion King the way it needed to be. Even 2001 when I saw this in high school it looked bad.
So let me understand this The mummy coming back to life or just a mummy in general also the mummy having all those powers you don't have a problem with but for some reason reincarnation and her being the protector of the bracelet and his tattoo and him being a warrior of God that you have issues with
Please recommend them ♡ *Oded Fehr* ♡ in 🔥 *Deuce Bigalow: Male Gig0lo* (1999) 🔥 *Deuce Bigalow: European Gig0lo* (2005) _with Rob Schneider & Eddie Griffin_
I think you'd like the third movie, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor". They change it up a little to Chinese lore, bringing back a cursed Chinese emperor. However Rachel Weisz is replaced by Maria Bello as Evie. Jet Li plays the Emperor and Michelle Yeoh plays the Emperor's reluctant love interest.
Nefertiti and Nefertiri were two different people. Nefertiti was the wife of Ahkenaten, father of King Tut, Nefertiti was his step mother. NeferTIRI was the wife of Rameses the Great, son of Seti I. In actuality, NeferTIRI was Seti's daughter in law, not actual daughter. However, NeferTITI's actual daughter, her child with her husband was named Anck-Su-Namun, and she was the wife of King Tut (her half brother), however, all the Ancient Egyptian people in these movies were real, they just didnt exist in the same time period, the only people that would of met would of been Seti and NeferTIRI.
She said Nefertiri, not Nefertiti. Nefertiti was the wrong time period, though she would not have been such a stretch as the bad guy being Imhotep. Now, THAT'S a stretch! 😂 The film isn't supposed to be historically accurate so don't worry about it. The CGI was pretty bad for the time but we'd seen so much bad CGI over the years that we didn't let it spoil anything for us. We still had imaginations back in those days and a willing suspension of disbelief and were less ready to condemn than people are these days.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was also on a film, The Scorpion King and he playing on the movie The Mummy Returns going down at the hiding place and going forward and side to side going to the left of High Priest (Arnold Vosloo) and turned the head and going straight and begin fight with Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser)
The 3rd was honestly pretty good for a third sequel you’d think it was running out of steam but it actually had a fun plot the only sad thing is a certain actor replacement had big shoes to fill and to me it just wasn’t the same unfortunately
Nowadays I love both of these movies, but I think the first one will stand out as my favourite. Even to this day I keep remembering it and loving all the adventure in that movie and how good all the acting and story is. There IS a third movie in this franchise but it's not worth seeing AT ALL, in my opinion. Rachel Weisz isn't in it (they found a replacement actress for her for the third one) and the story is so so stupid. If you felt like THIS movie was too "franchisee" then in the third one you're gonna get hit over the head constantly with it. If you rate these first two as a 7 or 8 out of 10, then the third movie is a 3 easily. I mean, go and watch it if you really want to, but just giving you a heads-up about it. Happy for people to disagree, of course, but the first outshine the third one by miles, easily.
This one for me will always have a special place in my heart from when it first came out; I was just obsessed with these two movies and pretty much anything about mummies and Egypt at that point. As I've grown older, critically there's a lot of flaws in this film and -- dear god -- the Scorpion King CGI was appallingly bad even for the time period, but one thing "Returns" has as a sequel is a lot of heart. At the core of the film they never move away from Rick and Evelyn and now Alex. We got Jon back in fine form and Ardeth a bit more fleshed out. There's a lot of insanity and a lot of wild swings, but I think it serves as the best kind of sequel: totally unnecessary, but justifies its own existence by doing justice to the characters involved, even though this story isn't as tight or good or well-paced as the first one. The one thing it did very well though was the finale sequence with Evy vs. Anck-Su-Namon: Evelyn and Rick had a true, selfless love, whereas Imhotep finally was forced to confront that his and Anck-Su-Namon's affair was filled enough with selfishness, lies, deceit, and greed that she couldn't risk herself to save him the way Evy did Rick. Arnold Vosloo did such a good job conveying absolute heartbreak in Imhotep's face without saying a word as he let himself fall. P.S. Whilst this movie is, of course, wildly historically inaccurate, I enjoyed the hell out of Evy's story and did want to put in a tiny word in the writers' defense: even they knew making Evelyn the reincarnation of Queen Nefertiti was a stretch too far and if you watch the subtitles close enough you notice her fake princess character is named Nefertiri. It's not ::much:: of a defense lololol P.P.S. Please don't bother with "The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor"; it's not a good movie, honestly, and they couldn't even get Rachel Weisz back for it and recast Evy and it was terrible. The first "Scorpion King" solo film is pure dumb fun if you guys are interested in checking it out, though without spoiling anything I can say outright that The Rock's character is suddenly a good guy and it doesn't fit into the canon of "The Mummy Returns" literally at all, so it's kind of its own thing.
The Scorpion King CGI was pretty heavily blasted at the time. It was terrible. I enjoyed the second one, but not as much. The whole reincarnation story came out of left field, but I liked Izzy. Jonathon got a chance to shine, finally! I recommend the third movie, The Mummy: Rise of the Dragon Emperor. The main protagonist this time is their son, Alex, now 21. The original Egyptian mummy doesn't appear. Instead we deal with late 40s China, before Mao was victorious. The army was based on the Terra Cotta Army found in the 1970s in China.
The little nitpicking kinda made the reaction hard to watch when these are movies your simply just suppose to have fun with.🤷🏾♀️Rick and evy are explorers which makes heir kid one also, Rick always had the tattoo not just a random plot he kept it covered, parents should be able to go into another room or kiss without a literal 10 year old causing chaos 😂which they were coming anyways since they were trying to wake the mummy again, and think of evy as basically seeing her past life that’s another reason she could fight so well you have to remember her mother was also an Egyptian it’s literally in her blood.
I do like this one,not more than the first but any way. If you like Rachel as Evie do not even bother with the third one because they casted a different actress for the part..that actress is amazing don't get me wrong I love Maria Bella as an actress but it doesn't make sense. Any way putting that aside I liked this one a lot and when I watched this movie my mind created two possible rides that could be made for it haha. I love how they brought passed lives into it but they wouldn't look the same as their future lives do, that just doesn't happen in reality. Any way bringing that story full circle using them was a nice idea non the less and it's Imortap and I am glad you liked Ardeth the actor's name is Oded Fehr and he was born here in Isrel in Tel-Aviv to be exact and has been in many movies and tv shows as well. Yes the ending where she turns away and Imortap looks at her in total hearbrake is hard and that shows how good of an actor Arnord is because he was able to show that pain and heartnrake in a way that makes you feel it too. Grate reaction girls.
I don't really understand what more she was asking for about the reincarnation haha. The two of them are the princesses reincarnated. What more is there to say? Now they can have rad knife duels!
The best part of the movie is seeing Rachel Weisz as Evy go from a bookish damsel in distress in the first movie to a drop dead gorgeous, absolute badass in this movie.
I mean how can you not have a massive crush on her?!?!
Agreed. Love me some Rachel.
Kinda sad that they didn't cast her in 3rd movie
which happens to all females right away after losing the V card.......................
happened too fast for me, even when it was 10 y since last
@@haseoxv9508 she didn't like the script for the third movie and honestly, fair. I've watched the first Mummy movie a ton of times and the second a lot too, but i've only watched the third once. Though maybe i would have liked it a bit more with the original cast, it just wasn't the same without her.
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Rachel Weisz & Patricia Velasquez trained & rehearsed for months to perform the Nefertiri - Anck-Su- Namun original fight seen at Court without using stunt-women.
This is why 2 is better. Everyone's such a badass in this one. It's definitely the same formula as 1 but they got like 25% more awesome out of the formula this time so now I just watch this one and don't need to watch the first anymore!
And it was filmed really well. Like we could actually see what they were doing and that it was actually them doing it. We didn't get any Bourne Supremacy shaky cam, which unfortunately too many movies have adopted.
Contrary to a popular misconception,
the throne room fight between Weisz and Velasquez DID use stunt double. (That's why they wore the masks) Twins Dee and Carly Harrup 22, and Nikki Berwick 23, deserve credit for their impressive work on that scene. All 3 were nominated that year at the World Stunt Awards. Kelly Dent and Lynda Van Den Berg also doubled for Rachel in the film.
Source: The Brendan Fraser Factum and IMDb.
That and Wolverine Vs. Deathstrike are my top 2 favourite fight scenes
55:14 Agree with Kristen. You are hating Imhotep throughout the two movies but also loving their love story. But then you see a look of complete heartbreak on his face when he realises that it was all for nothing. Especially when he sees the manifestation of true love in Rick and Evie. Such a well done scene.
Yessss weirdly I felt so bad for him the realization and disappointment ha me feeling for him it was very clear their eternal love only went so far, yet after just being brought back to life she still was willing to die to save rick.
Honestly Arnold Vosloo's face for that ending earns a whole extra star rating for me.
@@jerodast Agreed. Mr. Arnold Vosloo outdid himself in conveying the emotion of the scene.
The way he said everything with his face in that ending scene is breathtaking. He comes to peace with them seeing their love is true and then let’s himself go. 10/10 acting from Arnold Vosloo.
Man murdered; was tortured; cursed; eaten and buried alive; died twice; and, resurrected twice, all to be with her. And she runs out on him when he needed her most. Evil doesn't pay in the end but still.
If you didn't notice when Evelyn fell off the boat , that's what happened to her in the past life as well.
Nefertiri inadvertently leaned too far over the edge of the balcony and fell to her death. Despite having perished, Nefertiri's soul was cast adrift into the currents of time to be reborn once fate deemed the time right to revenge herself upon Anck-Su-Namun. This is why Evelyn is a reincarnation.
Jonathan’s character is underrated, he is a sharpshooter and WW1 Veteran and he comes across as a coward but he’s not. He’s just a fast talking swindler! I can’t remember if it was Dark Horse or Top Cow comics did a comic on his early adventures. 😎
There are comics on this movie?
This is the perfect equally competent male/female pair up. They rescue each other and neither is diminished to make the other one shine something Hollywood couldn’t get right before or since
I think A Quiet Place does an excellent job at it too
@@xwitchyQuiet Place is a good example as well.
14:52 I love how Brendan Fraser can play both a great dad and an action hero in the same movie 😃
When Kirsten said "salamah to you too.." i literally blushed.. i so love the fact that shes head over heels on Ardeth Bey.. crushing on him.. i just love u girl.. ❤
This I believe was The Rock's first ever movie role. The one that led to the Scorpion King movie and his introduction into Hollywood.
Yes it was
Yeah the producer to this movie watched the royal rumble and decided he needed the rock
Man what a way to introduce us to his acting skills through a timeless sequel of one of the best adventure franchises ever created 😱😱
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was also on a film, The Scorpion King, the following year after this film. If y'all want to watch that film.
They also tied that movie into his wwf v wcw fued w/booker T at summerslam.
I'll say it again, Johnson should have been Conan.
And it was such a fun movie!
I find John Hannah is a bit of an underrated component of these films - He switches from comic relief to dramatic effortlessly which really makes the scenes around Evie's death work. You should check him out in Sliding Doors and Four Weddings And A Funeral, he is phenomenal in those
Kristen seeing Ardeth come on screen. "THERE HE IS!! THERE'S THE FATHER OF MY 8 KIDS!!"
The whole time Imhotep kept saying their love was a true, powerful love but it was a selfish one. In the end Rick told Eve not to come help him because he would rather die than have her risk herself and she would rather risk herself than let him die. By contrast, Imhotep asked Ankhesenamun to risk herself to save him (selfish) and she wouldn’t (selfish). They’re love was not true and when he saw Rick and Eve he knew it.
This I would believe I’d because both Rick and Eve are Magi… it’s almost a retelling of the Gift of the Magi story that is sometimes told around Christmas time.
@@johnkelly90 Dude...no?
Medjai (what Rick and Evy are) are desert police. They protected Thebes when it had no military a long time ago. The Magi are pilgrims who wanted top pay homage to Jesus on his birth. Nothing about this story is a retelling of Gift of the Magi, that's a story about two people wanting to gift each other everything and not realizing that the material value of the gift is inconsequential to the idea that they were even thinking of each other.
Medjai and Magi sound similar, but that's about it. The Magi weren't even explicitly from Egypt, just somewhere east of the West Bank, could have been any number of places.
The fight between Eevee and anaksunamun is honestly my favorite part of this whole movie it's so badass❤
Contrary to a popular misconception,
the throne room fight between Weisz and Velasquez DID use stunt double. (That's why they wore the masks) Twins Dee and Carly Harrup 22, and Nikki Berwick 23, deserve credit for their impressive work on that scene. All 3 were nominated that year at the World Stunt Awards. Kelly Dent and Lynda Van Den Berg also doubled for Rachel in the film.
Source: The Brendan Fraser Factum and IMDb
Eevee is a Pokémon
Eevee is a Pokémon.
*Fun Fact:* During the shooting of The Scorpion King battle scenes, Dwayne Johnson caught a cold in the middle of the shoot. So everyone who is currently working on the movie asked if Dwayne could take it easy. But Dwayne still powered through shooting despite his cold and thus this movie made him a legendary superstar.
I will say something I didn’t realize until I was older, they did a great job at showing selfish love vs selfless love Evy was willing to die AGAIN if it meant saving the man she loved vs Anck-Su-Namun saving herself, and Rick telling Evy to run vs imhotep begging to be saved.
And yet Evey wasn't actually running out to save him until Rick yelled for her to escape...selfless love or expert reverse psychology, I wonder...
@@jerodast more like your pathetic projecting he saw the look on her face and knew what she was about to do goofy bye
@@jerodast what a dumb ass confirming your single comment
Rick was always wearing the leather band that their son took off in the first movie, so he could have easily had the mark and we never saw it. It makes me wonder if the sequel was already planned when they filmed the first movie.
Yep. And he had that small tattoo on his hand in the first movie, too (it can be clearly seen in the scene where he throws the chair at Beni), but for some reason that one isn't in the sequel.
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I need to recommend more movies starring *_Brendan Fraser_*
★ - *Blast from the Past* (1999) /Alicia Silverstone & Christopher Walken
★ - *Bedazzled* (2000) /Elizabeth Hurley
★ - *Journey to the Center of the Earth* (2008) /Josh Hutcherson
BONUS TRACK
★ - *Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo* (1999)
/starring Rob Schneider & *_Oded Fehr_*
Yes! thanks!
Great choices! i agreed all of them!
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It is necessary, 100% Underrated
There aren't enough video reactions to those movies.
you're right! we need to see these girls reacting to Brendan Fraser saying "un momento! estoy hablando español!" 🤣🤣🤣
This just made me realize that The Rock takes over lead in Journey 2, lol 😆
I'll too
"This would be like, a fun video game"
Yeah haha... you would think so... the idea is amazing and you would also think with how big the movies were, they would get a solid studio. The first game was alright but the second was a buggy incomplete mess, though it was still fun to play as Imhotep in the museum and raise the mummies.
In the first movie, Evie told Rick "My mother was Egyptian", making her and Jonathan half Egyptian, so the reincarnation thing isn't as farfetched as it may seem, in terms of bloodline. Also, Rick was a soldier, and he was also wearing a leather wristband on the same wrist as the tattoo, so it's entirely possible that he had the tattoo then as well, but kept it covered. And in the first movie he also has a tattoo on that hand, but for some reason it's not shown in the sequel.
I had the biggest crush on the desert guardian guy too when I first saw him😂😂😂
We all love Ardeth Bey. Oded Fehr was extraordinary as the character. My favorite scene with him on screen is when he leads the Madjai to their final stand against the Army of Anubis, ready to fight to death. A truly powerful performance and one of the scenes in the film that really stands out for me.
Same
This is my favorite sequel of all time. When I was younger I would watch it on VHS and I rewinded the fighting scene with eve and Anuck repeatdely and I know the choreo and did it in my room. Eve was always a women I strived to be smart and kind along with not afraid to handle buiseness.
Always thought the bus thing was impossible To do, but when you see how some of these bus drivers drive
You will change your mind
This was Dwayne Johnson's first movie role(they did him DIRTY with that cgi at the end smh), and he would reprise it in a spin off movie called The Scorpion King and it's awesome. You definitely need to watch it next, followed by The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (seriously, ignore those that say to skip that one, it's actually pretty good).
I think there might be scheduling issues with the Rock, forcing the makers to go the CGI route for the depiction.
This was probably the only reason, because even in 2001, prosthetics were good enough to bring the face at least.
@@SouryaDP That's understandable, but they could have done a better job with the CGI.
@@passionsquietrage Yeah, you’re right, they did a better job with the first movie, and that released in 1999
@@SouryaDP Exactly. There were some ROUGH cgi shots in this one. You'd think the cgi would have looked better with it being a sequel with a bigger budget.
@@passionsquietrage They did the effects studio dirty with the timeframe and budget. They cut the budget heavily for CGI and moved up the due date by almost half of what they were initially set for. There was an interview of some of the head effects guys and they even say that they're embarrassed of it, lol. But they said they had to especially rush the final CG by something like only a few months.
Evie and Rick are total couple's goals! ❤❤❤
Don't watch the 3rd one! 😂
This was Dwayne's big film debut that kick-started his movie career.
"Where am I supposed to get gas from around here, huh? Bananas, Mangoes or TARZAN'S ASS?!!!"
That's hilarious. I never caught that.
The best action scene to me is when rick catches the knife at its tip & throwing it right back. Plus Brandon Freasure is one of my top favorite actors.
🏆 And the award for Most Original Misspelling of Brendan Fraser's name goes to........
Love this movie, despite the dodgy effects. I really like the 3rd one, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor", too. It has a different vibe, especially since they recast Eve with Mario Bello. She's awesome, but also very different from Rachel Weisz. It has some really fun set pieces and of course Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li. I think you should watch it. And "The Scorpion King" of course. Super fun!
43:18 If you want to see real "Rock" in ancient times settings you just NEED to watch Scorpion King movie.
Best mummy movie of all time❤
The main thing to remember is this wasn't meant to be high art, it was meant to be a purely fun fantasy adventure, and in that it excelled.
Totally fun fact that awesome fight scene in ancient egypt between evy and anck su namun is actually done by them! No stunt doubles! Incredible women ❤❤
Contrary to a popular misconception,
the throne room fight between Weisz and Velasquez DID use stunt double. (That's why they wore the masks) Twins Dee and Carly Harrup 22, and Nikki Berwick 23, deserve credit for their impressive work on that scene. All 3 were nominated that year at the World Stunt Awards. Kelly Dent and Lynda Van Den Berg also doubled for Rachel in the film.
Source: The Brendan Fraser Factum and IMDb
Steph to kristen:- "There is your hubby"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A wildly unbelievable airship and some infamously dodgy CGI aside this is a great sequel. :)
Now don't watch 3rd one as it will ruin the memories only. It shows how important Rachel Weisz was for this franchise along with Brandon. The female lead in 3rd sucked the life out of it along with the dull story. Even they have a mature son which is another downgrade since this kid was so good
The third isn’t that bad but I do agree she was sorely missed. Should have waited until she was available to film it.
Alex is a combination of both his mums intelligence, and his dads stubborness and toughness 😇
Jonathan and Alex, a chaotic duo!!
The Rock was me and my cousins' favorite wrestler back in the late 90s early 2000's, and the community was so mad at him when he left wrestling to start doing movies. They called him Hollywood and stuff and like that. I never stopped cheering for him though, and then he came back in 2004 and kicked Stone Cold Steve Austin's ass in a great fight!
You know, they just let loose a deadly poisonous snake in the house and left. 😳😅
49:46 when she says salama to you too and couple of more moments of her being hilarious and crushing over I was laughing with them this reaction was really enjoyable😂😂😂
Since part 1 she's likes him 😂❤
Happy Lil Dingdong remembers her boy... but, not his name! I see how it is! Poor, poor... uh, what's-his-face... 🤪😆
Just to point out they literally chose well known names in Egyptian history for these characters in the first film like Imhotep who was Chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser (who was not the pharaoh in the movie they instead chose Seti I for his name) and Anck su namun or Ankhesenamun who was the queen to the Pharaoh Tutankhamen (yes King Tut) and her father was Akhenaten and her mother was Nefertiti (who were also Tutankhamen's parents, yes Tut and his wife were brother and sister). So Evy's character of "Nefertiti" they just took the name like they did with other characters, there is no historical connection and she is not "the Nefertiti".
On top of that, her name in the movie isn't even Nefertiti. It clearly says in the subtitles when they're speaking ancient Egyptian that her name is Nefertiri (R, not T), which is what Anck-Su-Namun says as well. People just can't pay attention any more.
These mummy series is my first english movies i had watched in theatre in my whole life ever. Im just 10 years old. So much excited and enthusiastic experience i had it.
As crappy as the CGI on The Scorpion King was, I love the fight between Rick and Imhotep, as well as the one between Evy and Ankh-su-namun. I also felt terrible for Imhotep when Ankh-su-namun ditched him inside that pyramid...at least she met her karma by falling into that pit of scorpions.
Autism-fueled observation/side note:
That snake that Evelyn kicked toward Rick is actually a milksnake. You can tell by the band pattern (red, black, yellow). If the band sequence was red, yellow, black, they'd have something to worry about because that's the band pattern of the venomous coral snake. Also, real scarabs were actually just dung beetles, who actually lay their eggs in balls of giraffe, elephant and rhinoceros dung.
Two bonus fact/opinion tracks:
I think Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be impressed with Evy because of that sai twirl.
When Jonathan says "Hang on, Rick!!", My first response every time is "I don't think he was planning to let go"
This was my first date movie!!!😊🎞🎥
The only reason I give it a meh on her being the reincarnation of Nefertiti is because in the first Evie explained her mother is Egyptian, so down the bloodline it works with the continuity. Until the 3rd 😂
The bad CGI was due to ILM being overworked with having to do the effects work on this film along with Jurassic Park III and Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, all released in the same Summer.
This is the rare time I love the sequel as much as the first one! Loved the reaction!!
43:17
"I was hoping to see the real Rock"
So were we. So were we 😔
Rick is literally cleaning up his Wife and Son's near Apocalyptic messes in this franchise.
Definitely watch The Scorpion King with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Kelly Hu. A stellar spin-off.
And the 3rd Mummy movie, Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, is pretty good. It doesn't have Oded Fehr, or Rachel Weisz as Evie (Maria Bello replaces her), but it has Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
Director Steven Sommers is a producer for Mummy 3, with Rob Cohen stepping in as director. Cohen's work doesn't go with the "epic" feel; his films are much more "personal," which is one reason some people didn't like Mummy 3. But he's a solid director, known for films like Dragonheart (Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery), The Fast And The Furious (Paul Walker, Vin Deisel), and Daylight (Sylvester Stallone).
Jet li was the only good part of that movie.
49:49 Kristen is gone 😂for her man 😂
I didn’t notice this before but at 12:25 she could probably now fight because she can also fight later in the movie as the flashback character, this is probably a dash of that.
well they didn't go back to the same temple or pyramid and Evelyn is Archaeologist and rick was a former Soldier what else would they do
Not an Archaeologist, she was a librarian.
You can skip part 3, but if you want to have more experience in this world, "The Scorpion King" is actually pretty good. The CGI at the end was awful when it came out in theaters. I really wish they would just fix it using today's tech.
I'm a little disappointed you two weren't as crazy about this one as you were about the first one. I absolutely love this film. It built on the lore in a pretty cool way, it had a bigger adventure and story, Alan Silvestri's score was epic, and it developed Rick and Evey's characters more. I guess you could make a case that's convenient how Rick is a secret medjai warrior and Evey is a reincarnated Egyptian princess, but given how he's a former soldier and she's half Egyptian, it wasn't that much of a stretch. I don't know what you mean when you say "franchisey" and I especially don't understand the claim that it's slow in parts. Seriously? It was always on the go. I don't think anyone can disagree on the CGI Scorpion King monster. Even for 2001, that was awful lol. And yes, you should absolutely watch The Scorpion King. I would even recommend watching The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor. I don't know how you both will feel about it, but you might as well complete the trilogy.
This is the first I've heard someone say the first was better so confidently. I agree with you it's more epic and more developed than the first. It definitely doesn't add a whole new dimension than the first though, it just does more of what #1 did (in an even more fun way IMO), but maybe that's what they mean by franchisey, just going through the same beats as before.
It's the same movie with bigger things as the first one which makes it franchisey
The character that oded feher played did not have the amount if dialogue Kirsten wanted cause he was not a big a main character as rick and Evie like how they are more .akn characters they he is but l think he was in a lot more scenes then the first one he was in scenes in the beginning and end and middle a lot of the film so l don't think you can complain that he was not in enough of rhe film
Cinepals and Reel Rejects im calling it. You guys need to watch "The Rundown" with the Rock and Stifler!!! That was a great movie!!!!
As formulaic as this film may seem. There are SO MANY memorable scenes and moments throughout this film that just make it totally worth it! Would love to see a reaction to the Scorpion King it is a fun action flick!
it follpws a formula, but it's the same formula as the first one except even better!
51:40 If I remember correctly there was a strike or something at the time so the CGI animators weren't given time to fully render the Scorpion King the way it needed to be. Even 2001 when I saw this in high school it looked bad.
Ardeth Bay is really cool. Him and Rick were kinda my heroes when I saw this movie as a kid.
So let me understand this The mummy coming back to life or just a mummy in general also the mummy having all those powers you don't have a problem with but for some reason reincarnation and her being the protector of the bracelet and his tattoo and him being a warrior of God that you have issues with
the mummy series is my childhood in a nut shell ! i must have watched 1 & 2 over a dozen times : )
The first 30 minutes of this movie is extremely fun. The rest of the movie is very fun as well but the beginning sets the tone perfectly
She's the reincarnated Nefertiri, not Nefertiti.
Nothing hurts more than Anck su Namun's betrayal of Imhotep. You see how that man gives himself up to death because he lost his love for her.
1 & 2 will always be great classics🙂 also The Scorpion King movie is a good prequel done by the same director who made these 1st and 2nd movies
Old Oded Fehr out somewhere in the world feeling mysteriously happy and not knowing why… 😂
Please recommend them
♡ *Oded Fehr* ♡ in
🔥 *Deuce Bigalow: Male Gig0lo* (1999)
🔥 *Deuce Bigalow: European Gig0lo* (2005)
_with Rob Schneider & Eddie Griffin_
I think you'd like the third movie, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor". They change it up a little to Chinese lore, bringing back a cursed Chinese emperor. However Rachel Weisz is replaced by Maria Bello as Evie. Jet Li plays the Emperor and Michelle Yeoh plays the Emperor's reluctant love interest.
Nefertiti and Nefertiri were two different people. Nefertiti was the wife of Ahkenaten, father of King Tut, Nefertiti was his step mother. NeferTIRI was the wife of Rameses the Great, son of Seti I. In actuality, NeferTIRI was Seti's daughter in law, not actual daughter. However, NeferTITI's actual daughter, her child with her husband was named Anck-Su-Namun, and she was the wife of King Tut (her half brother), however, all the Ancient Egyptian people in these movies were real, they just didnt exist in the same time period, the only people that would of met would of been Seti and NeferTIRI.
Johnathan, I thought I said no more wild parties 😂😂😂
She said Nefertiri, not Nefertiti. Nefertiti was the wrong time period, though she would not have been such a stretch as the bad guy being Imhotep. Now, THAT'S a stretch! 😂 The film isn't supposed to be historically accurate so don't worry about it.
The CGI was pretty bad for the time but we'd seen so much bad CGI over the years that we didn't let it spoil anything for us. We still had imaginations back in those days and a willing suspension of disbelief and were less ready to condemn than people are these days.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was also on a film, The Scorpion King and he playing on the movie The Mummy Returns
going down at the hiding place and going forward and side to side going to the left of High Priest (Arnold Vosloo) and turned the head and going straight and begin fight with Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser)
The 3rd was honestly pretty good for a third sequel you’d think it was running out of steam but it actually had a fun plot the only sad thing is a certain actor replacement had big shoes to fill and to me it just wasn’t the same unfortunately
Nowadays I love both of these movies, but I think the first one will stand out as my favourite. Even to this day I keep remembering it and loving all the adventure in that movie and how good all the acting and story is.
There IS a third movie in this franchise but it's not worth seeing AT ALL, in my opinion.
Rachel Weisz isn't in it (they found a replacement actress for her for the third one) and the story is so so stupid. If you felt like THIS movie was too "franchisee" then in the third one you're gonna get hit over the head constantly with it. If you rate these first two as a 7 or 8 out of 10, then the third movie is a 3 easily.
I mean, go and watch it if you really want to, but just giving you a heads-up about it.
Happy for people to disagree, of course, but the first outshine the third one by miles, easily.
39:02 funniest line ever 😂😂😂
Huge fun and underrated
Rick and Evy have to retire... Well they kind of do so in the next part - Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The original plan was to actually get Dwane for the final showdown, but he was too wrapped up with the WWE at the time.
This one for me will always have a special place in my heart from when it first came out; I was just obsessed with these two movies and pretty much anything about mummies and Egypt at that point. As I've grown older, critically there's a lot of flaws in this film and -- dear god -- the Scorpion King CGI was appallingly bad even for the time period, but one thing "Returns" has as a sequel is a lot of heart. At the core of the film they never move away from Rick and Evelyn and now Alex. We got Jon back in fine form and Ardeth a bit more fleshed out. There's a lot of insanity and a lot of wild swings, but I think it serves as the best kind of sequel: totally unnecessary, but justifies its own existence by doing justice to the characters involved, even though this story isn't as tight or good or well-paced as the first one. The one thing it did very well though was the finale sequence with Evy vs. Anck-Su-Namon: Evelyn and Rick had a true, selfless love, whereas Imhotep finally was forced to confront that his and Anck-Su-Namon's affair was filled enough with selfishness, lies, deceit, and greed that she couldn't risk herself to save him the way Evy did Rick. Arnold Vosloo did such a good job conveying absolute heartbreak in Imhotep's face without saying a word as he let himself fall.
P.S. Whilst this movie is, of course, wildly historically inaccurate, I enjoyed the hell out of Evy's story and did want to put in a tiny word in the writers' defense: even they knew making Evelyn the reincarnation of Queen Nefertiti was a stretch too far and if you watch the subtitles close enough you notice her fake princess character is named Nefertiri. It's not ::much:: of a defense lololol
P.P.S. Please don't bother with "The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor"; it's not a good movie, honestly, and they couldn't even get Rachel Weisz back for it and recast Evy and it was terrible. The first "Scorpion King" solo film is pure dumb fun if you guys are interested in checking it out, though without spoiling anything I can say outright that The Rock's character is suddenly a good guy and it doesn't fit into the canon of "The Mummy Returns" literally at all, so it's kind of its own thing.
Kristin is super fun...love her. The other woman is the personification of killjoy!
Looking forward to the scorpion king
You guys got to see The Scorpion King...it's just as good as the first 2 Mummy movies.
This was the first Hollywood movie I watched in theatres, and that time I liked the scorpion kings CGI.
The Scorpion King on this movie created a 'before' and 'after' for the whole CGI industry.
Kristen n her buhole jokes😂
If you wanna see more of The Rock in this, he has his own film called "The scorpion king"
The Scorpion King CGI was pretty heavily blasted at the time. It was terrible.
I enjoyed the second one, but not as much. The whole reincarnation story came out of left field, but I liked Izzy. Jonathon got a chance to shine, finally!
I recommend the third movie, The Mummy: Rise of the Dragon Emperor. The main protagonist this time is their son, Alex, now 21. The original Egyptian mummy doesn't appear. Instead we deal with late 40s China, before Mao was victorious. The army was based on the Terra Cotta Army found in the 1970s in China.
The little nitpicking kinda made the reaction hard to watch when these are movies your simply just suppose to have fun with.🤷🏾♀️Rick and evy are explorers which makes heir kid one also, Rick always had the tattoo not just a random plot he kept it covered, parents should be able to go into another room or kiss without a literal 10 year old causing chaos 😂which they were coming anyways since they were trying to wake the mummy again, and think of evy as basically seeing her past life that’s another reason she could fight so well you have to remember her mother was also an Egyptian it’s literally in her blood.
I do like this one,not more than the first but any way. If you like Rachel as Evie do not even bother with the third one because they casted a different actress for the part..that actress is amazing don't get me wrong I love Maria Bella as an actress but it doesn't make sense. Any way putting that aside I liked this one a lot and when I watched this movie my mind created two possible rides that could be made for it haha. I love how they brought passed lives into it but they wouldn't look the same as their future lives do, that just doesn't happen in reality. Any way bringing that story full circle using them was a nice idea non the less and it's Imortap and I am glad you liked Ardeth the actor's name is Oded Fehr and he was born here in Isrel in Tel-Aviv to be exact and has been in many movies and tv shows as well. Yes the ending where she turns away and Imortap looks at her in total hearbrake is hard and that shows how good of an actor Arnord is because he was able to show that pain and heartnrake in a way that makes you feel it too. Grate reaction girls.
People from India have an easy time digesting the “reincarnation” plot line. But seriously, the whole smooching willy nilly was just silly.
I don't really understand what more she was asking for about the reincarnation haha. The two of them are the princesses reincarnated. What more is there to say? Now they can have rad knife duels!
Why? We just were fast-forwarding on DVD the smooching scenes.No big deal.
I used to blame anaksunamun for abandoning imotep but in actuality she begged him not to fight the scorpion king without his powers.
Not Nefertiti. She was Nefertiri; a different woman.
Yeah, it was weird to hear her say that when they said Nefertiri and there were subtitles. And they even said it multiple times.
The tattoo symbol can be seen carved in the temple.. where the pillars fall like. Last pillar hits the symbol leading to their escape
Just not on his wrist in the first one, right?
The Scorpion King is art of the franchise, but also a movie you can watch by itself
Rick's wrists were covered the entirety of the first movie. Also, should parents helicopter around their children at all times.
Also even if they had stayed out of it they didn't have anything to do with the mummy coming back that was going to take place either way
Well they actually tried to retire in the third 🎥 of the franchise but it didn't take.
24:08 look how Imhotep is playing along while being shot at 😂