Rival Arab chieftains steal Kelly's beloved horse, and the young man follows the thieves across continents in a desperate race. Great family entertainment.
He would go to the ends of the earth to rescue his most treasured friend... a champion ... more
racehorse named Black. This remarkable story about the relationship between a young boy and his horse is a magnificent spectacle with adventures the whole family can...
Advantages: A moderately interesting premise. Disadvantages: Badly directed, lazily acted and shoddily written without sufficient scares.
for the part of Joanna?s best friend from school and is never given a chance to be anything other than bland and sensible.
The original score by horror maestro Dario Marianelli is standard fare for this kind of movie. He marries background whispering with creepy wine glass squeals to try to set your nerves on edge. Then he backs them up with foreboding string and piano motifs or rising string and high-pitched brass arrangements that foreshadow events. However, he shoots himself in the foot with his repetitive piano refrain that is remade with added strings or woodwinds at various times through the film. It?s fine the first time you hear it but becomes wearing after the third. He would have been better off if he?d used more sawing folk fiddle and plaintive piano breaks as he does at the end of the movie.
?The Return? is a turgid pot ...
Advantages: Not too gory. Has a bit of everything - action, adventure, comedy, historical interest and love... Disadvantages: A little disappointing with some of the special effects.
The Mummy Returns
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BACKGROUND
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From the first film Evie (Weiss) , an English Egyptologist, and her brother Jonathan (Hannah) coincidently meet american legionnaire Rick O' Connell (Fraser) in Egypt. After enduring a journey of unearthing long lost ancient treasure and destroying resurrected Mummies, Rick and Evie fall in love, get married and the threesome settle back in London, England.
THE PLOT
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The story of the second film introduces a new significant character - The Scorpion King,(Andreas Johnson, aka. The Rock) the protagonist of the whole film. Having given up his soul to Anubis, the God of the Dead, the Scorpion King lies asleep in the Pyramid. If awakened, the boundless army of Anubis rises with him, and whosoever manages to defeat the Scorpion King also gains ...
Advantages: Clever, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Disadvantages: Silly, Inconsistent, Incoheren, Disjointed
at day, driving at night, driving on busy roads, driving on open roads, seriously half of the of movie is long shots of her car (which mysteriously turns from black to red and then to black again). However, one of the bravest and most unique things about The Return is the fact that it doesn't actually have a villain, which makes things ever more sinister. The villain is time and in that respect the screenplay is actually pretty scary; the idea is that you can run from your past, desperately burring your head and praying to elude your problems but it will always catch you up and may just build a force and life of its own... an idea which is essentially pretty terrifying.
Asif Kapachia is making a different movie to the script (and I suspect to what the studio was expecting). He believes he is directing a drama, a weepy about healing ...
JayHall1991 31.10.2007
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A young boy stows away from America to North Africa to rescue his black stallion from the Berber sheikh who kidnapped the horse.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
MGM ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
07/04/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
24375 DVD
Barcode
5050070009644
Languages
Main Language
English
Dubbed Language
French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitle Language
Greek, Hungarian
Hearing Impaired Language
English, German
Technical information
Special Features
Original Theatrical Trailer, Interactive Menu, Chapter Selection
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Mono
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 English Dolby Digital Mono French German Italian Spanish
Professional reviews
Review
"...Funny, unpretentious and fast-paced..." (New York Times, p.54, 27/03/1983)
DVD Description
Rival Arab chieftains steal Kelly's beloved horse, and the young man follows the thieves across continents in a desperate race. Great family entertainment.
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