You know, a couple of years ago this would have seemed really strange to me.
The Mummy Returns (2001) dir. Stephen Sommers
Tag: the mummy returns
things I love from The Mummy and The Mummy Returns
- Evelyn
- the motif of the O’Connell family accidentally knocking over things and reigning destruction in a falling domino fashion
- the Mummy being scared of the cat
- Evelyn Carnahan
- “I am a… librarian!“
- bad cgi scorpion centaur Dwayne Johnson
- "what harm ever came from…” lots. lots of harm
- ominous wind
- the fact that Rick and Evelyn’s son is named Alex, probably after the Library of Alexandria (which Evie secretly hopes is still out there waiting to be discovered)
- Evie
- the camels
- the “no of course we don’t let him go” exchange
- Evelyn O’Connell
- the way Evie reads with her glasses down her nose
- Rachel Weisz’s character; Evelyn