SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

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.

mike48128 The Mummy looks like he's wearing an unpressed pair of baggy pajamas. He hobbles around and growls a bit. Very poor mummy make-up. Maybe this was done on purpose, as it seems to be more of an A&C "chase and pratfall" comedy than a monster movie! (Most critics complained the "Jekyll and Hyde" film was too scary.) Other than that, it's almost the last film made for Universal that spanned more than 14 years.A bunch of really tired comedy routines and gags. Only "A&C Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff" is worse. It kind of plays like a cheap Three Stooges "short" in a haunted house! Silly "exotic" dancing and singing. Costello, as always, is pursued by the pretty female villain. Tacky sets (nice marble floors) and a very fake-looking indoor dessert backdrop. Only the last 15 minutes are memorable, with three "Mummys" prancing around and secret passageways everywhere. The running gag is an animated and flying bat and of course a disappearing corpse. Lou eats "the cursed medallion of Klaris" and, after the dynamite explodes, the memory of the now-blown up mummy is celebrated at the night club "Club Klaris" with a mummy-costumed jazz band. How stupid! (Sadly, Lou Costello died four years later from his life-long heart condition and his ongoing weight problem.) I loved this stuff as a kid. In the 1950's it ran for a mere quarter (or a Mars candy wrapper) at a Saturday morning movie matinée! Note: Richard Deacon is best remembered as Lumpy's Dad on "Leave it to Beaver"! His role as the "Egyptian Priest" is beyond terrible!

preppy-3 Abbott and Costello are in Cairo and get mixed up with a mummy named Klaris (although he was KHaris in earlier films). It also involves a sacred medallion that Klaris wears, a cult that worships him and an evil woman (Marie Windsor) who will stop at nothing to get it.This was the second to last film that Bud and Lou did for Universal and it's just terrible. The guys were easily in their 50s by then and their age is showing. It's full of tired slapstick and routines that were old even back in the 1950s. I didn't even crack a smile once (although the pick/shovel bit is kind of fun). The plot makes little sense and the special effects are terrible. The mummy getup has to be the worst I've ever seen in a mummy movie. Truly laughable. For the most part the acting is lousy too--Richard Deacon is the worst offender. Bud and Lou do what they can but the material isn't there for them. Also Marie Windsor (a brilliant character actress) has nothing to work with. Boring, unfunny and a waste of time. Skip it.

bob the moo Peter Patterson and Freddie Franklin are Americans travelling across Egypt. When they go to visit archaeologist Dr Zoomer to get a job, they find him murdered and, in trying to disentangle themselves from the crime, they end up getting deeper than they expected. In possession of a medallion, Peter and Freddie end up pursued by an Egypian cult who wish to protect the undead Mummy to which it belongs, but somehow Freddie cannot do anything without getting into more and more trouble.In revisiting the old Abbott and Costello films of my youth, I have discovered that their films do have noticeable periods where the quality is distinctly lower than when they were at their best – even fans will acknowledge this. Seeing that Mummy was made in the mid-50's suggested to me that perhaps this was going to be one such film – perhaps rushed out with the stars not really having the energy, commitment, chemistry or timing that they once had. The return to "meeting monsters" was also a worry as it made me think that the pair were perhaps returning to an old vein hoping that that in itself would make things work again. I'm not sure how much if any validity these worries had but the film does actually stand up as an enjoyable film of theirs. The plot is more or less clear from the title of the film but it does a solid enough job of providing a structure to the film and from there it depends what they manage to fill it with outside of narrative.The good news for fans here is that the two stars actually appear to have a certain amount of chemistry together and also have several good routines. Abbott is good and, as others have suggested their is a certain edge to his harshness that may have roots away from the scripted lines, while Costello does well with his usual double-takes and playing up his "baby-faced" personae. The supporting cast are solid enough to provide a plot but not particularly memorable beyond that – although I did like a performance from Peggy King at one point.Overall this is a brisk and amusing film that has a good number of fun routines and the stars appearing that they are actually putting effort into it beyond just showing up. A solid A&C film despite the late stage it was made.