[weird clown people]

> This made me somewhat leery; I do not particularly like costumed individuals even
> in the proper context (like the folks who dress up as Snow White or Pluto at Disneland, for
> example--I don't know why, I just don't *trust* them somehow...)

It might be a body-language thing. Costumed people such as you refer to tend to go in for artificial, exaggerated body-language, which can be disturbing. Especially faces -- artificial, exaggerated, and often immobile, which means you have no idea what they're really thinking...


[_The Mummy Returns_]

> What I did see of the film was about what you'd expect, a tiny thin plot as an excuse for zowie
> special effects, which in its own way is not a bad outting as long as you sit far enough back.
> If anyone else has seen it, (and although I'm not going into detail, I guess consider this a
> *spoiler notice* of sorts) did you think...
>
> 1) ..that you'd actually be required to recall who these people were from the first movie?

Yes. Why not? The whole point of it being a sequel is that there's all these people who were in the first movie as well.

> I thought that was demanding too much of me for a mindless action/fx flick.

And here we differ, because I never thought of _The Mummy_ as a mindless action/fx flick.

But to continue...


> 2)...that certain parts reminded you of the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland?

Never seen the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland.


> 3)...that the head magi gave the "live long and prosper" sign to his troops?

Didn't notice that.

(It's not "magi", by the way. It's... I can't remember the spelling, "medjai" or something [it was in one of the subtitles]. Magi are Persian mystics.)


> 4)...that the "ship silhouetted against the moon" scene was slapping you in the face with
> an "E.T." (wink wink) reference?

'E.T.' isn't the only movie with stuff silhouetted against the moon. And I can't see why it should be an 'E.T.' reference.


> Did the jackal army remind you of the droids army in "2nd Episode'?

Yes.

I distinctly remember thinking, when the big battle scene near the end approached, "Oh well. At least this time the scenery and at least some of one of the armies is real."


Paul