42.5 million

IMDB is reporting 42.5 million dollars for the three day box office take for The Mummy. Did you see it? We went to the Friday night showing at the Arclight Hollywood, and there were even a couple editors in the audience. Rob Cohen was actually at the Arclight Sherman Oaks and introduced the film there to the audience. I won't say much except the Rotten Tomatoes score is in the ballpark.

I thought it started well, at least all the stuff before the title came on. It's similar to the other ones, with a short exposition of the story, and how it would unfold. Unfortunately, that was about it.

Here are some choice quotes from RT.

Nothing special, nothing risible, nothing memorable, nothing that's going to last long at the cineplex. It just sort of evaporates on screen. And that's almost worse than being a bomb. At least you'll remember the bomb.

Parts of the movie are fun, mostly due to Fraser's and Bello's winning attitudes. But there is too much slapstick, too much infantile humor, too much messy editing and an overload of special effects.

But the script frankly sucks. It lifts from sources that were themselves tired liftings from other sources. The funniest lines don't appear to have been intended to be funny.

So on that note, on to the next film!