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The Mummy Returns
🕑 Added 2021-10-01 04:00:04 +0000 UTCMore Mummy bay-beee! Today’s new installment of BC:SF commentary is on the 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns. Topics include: The Rock pivoting into movies, kidnapping, other deeply flawed sequels, the reveal of the Scorpion King challenge and more!
Movie starts at...6:35
Comments
Joshua Brown
I have heard David use the term "regime" instead of "regimen" on multiple episodes in the same context every time. It's fitness REGIMEN!
Vegan Police
My boyfriend is a Tomb Raider fanatic and got me to watch both of them recently. I was impressed, they are the dumbest kind of fun and seen through that lens I find them hard to argue with.
Oscar
Weeks later this is confirmed.
Whit Barringer
Addams Family Values added a kid.
Jessica B
The Little Mermaid two adds a kid 😂
Josh
Basically, what y’all want out of this is Hellboy II
Michelle Fotopoulou
Doctor Sleep might be the only example of adding a kid in the sequel that rules
Rad Rodge
Griffin: "Bottom half is a scorpion, top half is a king, so that's pretty much 10 out of 10 perfect for me"
Rad Rodge
I checked back in on the episode about The Walk, where I forgot that David supplies an incredible defense of the Scorpion King CGI: "looks like a scorpion, clearly a king"
Elliot
Too harsh on this movie! It's fun and silly.
Jonathan Chee
First thing that came to mind was the wooden stake machine gun from Van Helsing
Ben Gilbert
Love the show so very much. Also love supporting your Patreon and I apologize in advance but please stop eating on mic.
Austin McDougle
bring back eating on mic!!!!!
Joshua Ochoa
I loved Dawn my second watch through Buffy, she gets an unnecessary bad wrap.
Adam Augustyn
Holy crap that's tremendous. Thanks for passing it along!
Andrew Spitzer
The Lost World: Jurassic Park gives Ian Malcolm a daughter, but that may not count since the first film already had kids.
Anthony Jennaway
The Mummy’s scream performed by the lead singer/guitarist for the seminal German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten (and guitarist in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for many years): Blixa Bargeld.
Domenic Mezzanotte
Came here to say that I saw Mummy Returns at 13 and thought “more like Nefertitty” to myself based on passable knowledge of Egyptian history, what I thought the movie said, and a Freudian Hear for where my uhhh thoughts were. Ya goofed, Universal! I heard it anyway!
Hope
"Kid" was 26 when this movie came out, and he's supposedly a high schooler. I love the sequels to David levels, but good lord what the hell
Infinite Terror
Started singing along to the theme song without even realizing it.
Jonathan Popalis
Terminator 2 adds a kid. I would say it was ah-PRETTY successful at it.
Susannah B.
The only annoying kid they brought in later I can think of is Dawn from Buffy, and it's pretty heavily lampshaded
Philip Ehlke
This movie does turn into a screen saver but I was sure having fun. Didn’t really mind the kid. I could almost feel Sommers’ blood, sweat and tears as this story comes across a bit like a feverish fanfic. Hey, if Hollywood gives you a blank check then by all means, make sweet love to that typewriter 👻
Joshua Ochoa
The Legend of Zorro adds a kid.
Joshua Ochoa
Ya’ll are wrong about Shanghai Knights. It’s good. Now you must make those two the next commentary series!
Davey Morrison
This was my first thought, too!
Aaron Thompson
It’s basically guaranteed that Avatar 2 will add a kid.
Fraser Duncan
12:40-12:45 made for a strange and somewhat disconcerting experience on headphones for me as my name was repeated over and over again! Very grateful for the pronunciation correction though!
William Evans
Look this movie is bad HOWEVER every movie can be improved with a dirigible so it’s not a complete wash.
Sean Logue
Matrix Reloaded actually has a character called the Kid. Does he count for annoying children in sequels?
Mark Jackson-Brown
Both RoboCop 2 and 3 had cherubic audience-insert children.
Jack o Diamonds
Legend of zorro.
Christina Lohr
The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea adds Ariel and Eric’s daughter Melody who, get this, is a human who wants to be a mermaid!! Who woulda thought?
Charlie
Some arguably annoying kid-centric sequels they've covered: Thunderdome, The Lost World, T2, Crocodile Dundee in L.A. I'd say the best possible version isn't Temple of Doom, but Alien$.
Adam B
In re: sequels that add children… the only one I could think of was an older example. The Thin Man series actually adds a kid in by the second or third sequel. I couldn’t really remember any other examples but it feels like such an obvious sequel trope.
William Evans
Spider-Man 3 actually has a consistent theme as illustrated in one of the greatest video essays ever: https://youtu.be/UD0cNRsJugg
Squit
Lost it when Ben brought up “bone guns” 😂
Jordan B. Anderson
arnold vosloo leaping into frame and bellowing NOOOOO! is a moment I treasure
Wes Reynolds
Watching The Mummy last month: “As always, that movie rules. I can’t imagine ever revisiting that awful sequel.” Tonight: (Cues up Returns on HBO) “These assholes makin me watch this shit. Was Crocodile Dundee 2 not enough torture to endure? Here’s another $5 for your Patreon.”
