{"id":169782,"date":"2021-02-03T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-mummy-is-good-old-fashioned-dumb-fun-film\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T18:30:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:30:44","slug":"the-mummy-is-good-old-fashioned-dumb-fun-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-mummy-is-good-old-fashioned-dumb-fun-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#’The Mummy’ is Good Old Fashioned Dumb Fun \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’The Mummy’ is Good Old Fashioned Dumb Fun \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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(Welcome to\u00a0The Quarantine Stream<\/strong><\/a>, a series<\/a> where the \/Film team shares what they\u2019ve been watching while social<\/a> distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Movie:\u00a0<\/strong>The Mummy<\/em><\/p>\n

Where You Can Stream It:\u00a0<\/strong>HBO Max
\nThe Pitch:\u00a0<\/strong>Before Universal attempted (and botched) the Dark Universe, there was 1999\u2019s\u00a0The Mummy<\/em>, a film that was billed as a remake of the 1932 Boris Karloff horror flick but was closer to a\u00a0Looney Tunes<\/em> cartoon crossed with an\u00a0Indiana Jones<\/em> sequel. The story involves a quest for treasure and an ancient curse, but that\u2019s really just an excuse to have a bunch of jokes and fun action set-pieces.<\/p>\n

Why It\u2019s Essential Quarantine Viewing:<\/strong>\u00a0The Mummy<\/em> is a movie about attractive people having an entertaining adventure, and also there\u2019s a scene where the Mummy is terrified of a cat and turns into CGI sand. What other excuse do you need to watch a movie?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big fan of the classic Universal monster movies, so when I learned a new\u00a0Mummy<\/em> movie was on the horizon back in 1999, I was excited. And then I saw the movie, which was\u00a0definitely<\/em> not a classic horror film. Is there horror in\u00a0The Mummy<\/em><\/strong>? Sure! The Mummy himself is a murderous monster and there are moments here where people are killed by swarms of bugs or have their eyeballs removed. It\u2019s gross! But\u00a0The Mummy<\/em> isn\u2019t really trying to scare you \u2013 it\u2019s trying to entertain you.<\/p>\n

And you know what? That\u2019s fine. This film is incredibly silly, and it doesn\u2019t have an original bone in its shroud-wrapp<\/a>ed body. And yet\u2026it\u2019s hard to resist. Writer-director\u00a0Stephen Sommers strikes just the right tone of pulpy adventure fun, and he\u2019s not holding anything back here. This was, at the time, the biggest movie Summers had made, and he clearly was relishing the idea of unleashing a bunch of CGI mayhem involving sand storms, rotten ghouls, and other such hokum. Do I wish this stuff had been done with practical effects? I sure do. But that doesn\u2019t mean I dislike what\u2019s going on here.
\nThe real secret to The Mummy<\/em>\u2018s success, though, is the casting.\u00a0Brendan Fraser<\/strong> is perfectly cast as Rick O\u2019Connell, a pulpy himbo who is kind of dumb but not in an offensive way. He\u2019s just a big cheesehead who likes to shoot guns and kiss dames, and you can\u2019t help but like him. Fraser brings the perfect amount of lunkheaded charm to the part, and it\u2019s endearing. And he\u2019s matched perfectly with\u00a0Rachel Weisz<\/strong>, who is utterly charming as\u00a0 Evelyn, a librarian who gets mixed up in all this mummy business. This was not Weisz\u2019s screen debut, but it is the film that made her a star, and it\u2019s easy to see why \u2013 she\u2019s funny, sweet, and radiant here.<\/p>\n

Fraser and Weisz are backed-up by a game<\/a> cast that includes\u00a0John Hannah<\/strong> as Evelyn\u2019s drunkard brother,\u00a0Kevin J. O\u2019Connor<\/strong> as the treacherous Beni,\u00a0Oded Fehr<\/strong> as Ardeth Bay, the leader of the\u00a0Medjai, and of course,\u00a0Arnold Vosloo<\/strong> as Imhotep, the titular mummy. Most if not all of these people are also\u00a0really<\/em> good-looking, so that certainly doesn\u2019t hurt the movie.<\/p>\n

The Mummy<\/em> feels like a lightning in a bottle scenario. This movie works extremely well, but it was a one-and-done thing. I\u2019m sorry fans of\u00a0The Mummy Returns<\/em>, but that movie is bad. And\u00a0The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor <\/em>isn\u2019t much better. On top of that, all of Summers\u2019 post-Mummy<\/em> films were misfires (Van Helsing<\/em> is an abomination, don\u2019t even try to deny it). It\u2019s like the stars aligned here to make\u00a0The Mummy<\/em> an entertaining romp whose success couldn\u2019t be duplicated.<\/p>\n

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