A universe runs by Hamiltonian, not Jeffersonian laws, by which I mean that every meaningful decision emanates from a single executive source instead of individual artists making individual creative choices. It's Marvel superheroes, DC superheroes, Star Wars Jedi knights. "The Mummy" isn't a tent-pole either, the term for a franchise that holds up the studio, like "Harry Potter." "The Mummy" is a would-be universe. "The Mummy" isn't meant as a self-contained horror thriller or even to launch a, quote, "franchise," a word I put in quotes because when I grew up, franchises were Burger Kings and mobile stations. What no one could have guessed is that it would feel so uninvolving. It's everything its studio wanted it to be. "The Mummy" isn't bad because it misses its marks. So the studio Universal has announced plans to make more like it, which is scarier than anything in the movie itself. It did better overseas where its star, Tom Cruise, is more popular. Although, some analysts say that figure is too low. Film critic David Edelstein has these thoughts on the movie and what its release says about the current movie industry.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: The most important bad movie of the year is "The Mummy," which opened June 9 and made around $30 million in the U.S., which sounds like a lot but not when your budget is reported to be $125 million.
to generally poor reviews and is widely regarded as a flop.
"The Mummy," which stars Tom Cruise as a soldier who accidentally uncovers the tomb of an evil Egyptian princess, opened last week in the U.S. She's feeling overwhelmed and under appreciated, and the only thing that Mummy knows for sure is that the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink.This is FRESH AIR. And despite her best efforts, her precious moppets still don't know the location of the laundry basket, the difference between being bored and being hungry, or that saying 'I can't find it Mummy' is not the same as actually looking for it!Amidst the chaos of A-Levels and driving tests, she's doing her best to keep her family afloat, even if everybody is set on drifting off in different directions, and that one of those directions is to make yet another bloody snack. Mummy has been a wife and mother for so long that she's a little bit lost. No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel.I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn to make a decent gin and tonic.
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