Chances are Ebert's complete quote was more along the lines of "I was expecting this to be the best in the Mummy series, but it turned out to be absurd, preposterous, and plain dumb fun". Yeah, they twist the critics' words around so it's in the movie's favor. That's what the studios do when they can't buy good reviews. Starting to see why we like to razz them? 

If you bring back the category for Worst Film Grossing Over $100M, this would probably win outright.

When the commercials for the DVD were on TV, it told me that Roger Ebert called it "the Best in the Mummy series".  He also called it "plain dumb fun," "absurd," and "preposterous" -- and he still enjoyed it?  How laughable!

And it's your Worst New Movie on DVD this Weak.

Originally posted by Headbanger14 The effects in The Thing looked better -- and that movie's 26 years old!

Did you know that one of the reasons the movie was panned by critics was that it was too realistic ?. It had many of them barfing in their popcorn boxes or wanting to hit the exit. Of course, opening the same time as E.T. doomed it to cult status.

Still, IMO, the greatest horror movie of all time.

On topic, I won't even see this film on DVD. Just another example of Hollywood flogging a dead horse that's less braindead than they are.  

If you think this movie is bad, check this out, a second Scorpion King movie!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104123/

As one message says, it's "a prequel to a spin-off of a sequel to a remake". That sentance alone is proof Hollywood lost what little soul it had.

Despite all this, this movie will very likely crack the $100 million mark.

On a similar (Brosnan's piercingly bad) note, Momma Mia will break the $100 million mark this weekend.

My oh my oh my. . . .