Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

GL84 Overhearing an expedition to a new tomb, Egypt-based archaeologists come across a cult of worshippers intending to keep a secret regarding the resurrection properties and must return the secret to the mummy's tomb before other parties get a hold of it.While not the travesty many claim it is, it is still one of the better ones Abbott and Costello have done. Like so many of their efforts, a lot of this one is based on the hilarity that ensues when mixing their brand of slapstick comedy and wordplay around the classic monster mayhem as there are a lot of gags in here that do work. The early dead-body discovery is a gut-buster, the amulet in a hamburger- switch sequence is a justifiable classic routine and other similar silly scenes are spread throughout the movie that are just as hilarious, including several snake-charming scenes and some humorous physical gags at the beginning. The usual humor of the team is on full display here, and it should be pleasing for fans of the group. There is quite a rapid pace to this, and it flies by without any real problems here with the gags come at a nice enough pace so that it never really slows down. The ending is complete madcap insanity, and provides some great laughs as well as being one of the best creative series of sequences in their history. It's one of their most impressive scenes, and is the highlight of the movie with everything coming together with a couple of nice suspenseful scenes mixed along for a little horror to the comedic proceedings. This isn't as bad as it could've been, though there's a few flaws here. Most of what's wrong here is mostly just budgetary concerns. The sets look cheap and small, the locations are pretty much hampered by lack of design, and most of the time it looks dreary. When everything should look big and grand, they instead come as looking like cheap sets on a back-lot that were hastily filmed to get it out in a hurry as there's never a sense anywhere that they're at a large place. The mummy costume as well looks incredibly bad as it's a far cry from the wonderful look of the original and isn't scary in the slightest looking exactly like moldy bandages wrapped up. They don't even cover his entire body, as there are several spots missing that weren't covered. It only elicits laughter when viewed and doesn't even get featured as often as it really should've with so much of the film spent on their madcap adventures instead of the horror. That causes this to spend a large portion of time waiting around to actually get to the tomb with it spending all this time on their antics instead. Still, this one is a lot of fun.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.

mark.waltz Adequately amusing, this is another attempt by Abbott and Costello to meet one of the former Universal monsters. Already having met Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, The Wolfman, an invisible man who wasn't quite Claude Rains for his imitators, & a non universal monster in Mr. Hyde, they now had to Egypt where they become involved in another attempt to get ahold of ancient Egyptian treasure. This leaves them into contact with such nefarious characters as femme fatale Marie Windsor and alleged Richard Deacon, they end up in a chase with an alleged mummy locked up in a closed off tomb where nothing scary really happens and you know pretty much what the results are going to be. It's all pretty juvenile and while there are some funny moments, I'm afraid this is more for the kiddie crowd than adult movie crowd. obvious Caucasian chorus girls attempt to be Arabic harem dancers and fail miserably. There certainly is not one moment of authenticity, so you must go into this with an open mind with your eyes taped to the front so they don't roll to the back of your head, and a bag of popcorn to munch on, because this is a perfect Saturday or Sunday matinée film, and little else. I remember Abbott and Costello films fondly from my childhood and even into my early adulthood, and while some of them are much better than others, this one falls somewhere in between. It isn't a disaster, but the humor is a major repeat of everything that they had already done and better. The exotic looking Marie Windsor makes a great villainess and Deacon is properly dour. if it wasn't for the presence of these tractors, I think I would have been totally bored.

AaronCapenBanner Abbott & Costello play Pete Patterson & Freddie Franklin(though refer to each other as Bud & Lou throughout!) two fortune hunters in Egypt who become mixed up in murder when they become suspects after an archaeologist is killed for a priceless Medallion that leads to the tomb of the living mummy "Klaris", which is also cursed(of course). The usual pratfalls and mishaps ensue. Sad horror spoof is entirely unfunny and utterly pointless. The mummy series ended ten years previous, and this update has terrible makeup, stale gags, and sloppy handling. This was the team's final film at Universal Studios, which unceremoniously dropped them after this flop.

Robert J. Maxwell Abbott and Costello were a popular comedy team in the early 40s, with their dumbed-down burlesques of life in the Army or Navy. Occasionally they'd branch out, when Universal Studios let them, and make a film of more substance -- and funnier -- as in "The Time of Their Lives." But after a few years they began to fade, until they were revivified with "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" in 1948. Universal's monster genre, which began in the early 30s, had run its course and there was nothing left to do but parody them, and Abbott and Costello were the instruments of that parody.Here we are in 1955, with "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" and it's the dead edge of yonder for both the comedy team and the line up of monsters. You can't parody a parody.This may be the only film -- it was the next to their last -- in which Bud Abbott is almost as thick as Lou Costello. Abbott's voice is harsher and a little gravelly. When he insults Costello or order him around, it's a little unpleasant because he doesn't sound like a vaudeville straight man anymore; he sounds really mean.The story is dispensable except for Marie Windsor. What is she doing here, taking a vacation from being a moll? She looks mighty fine, in an Ileana Douglas sort of way, with those big and inviting eyes. Yes, eyes. Nobody else really counts. And the plot redoes some earlier successful gags. The "Who's on first" routine here is morphed into a lesser breed of gag involving "pick a shovel." I used to get a kick out of Abbott and Costello when I was a kid, and maybe the kids would find all this running around, being chased by thieves and mummies, bumping into dead bodies, and so forth, amusing. Although -- I don't know. I'm not attuned to the tastes of today's kids but my general impression is that they prefer violence to comedy or, better yet, slaughter that is presented as a joke.