After watching "The Mummy" earlier today I had to watch the sequel as quickly as possible. It was made two years later in 2001, but the film's story takes place nine years later. Rick O'Connell and Evelyn Carnahan met in the first film; now they're married and have a precocious young son who's inherited his mother's intelligence and his father's reckless lust for adventure.
The back story is fleshed out in the sequel. In the first film the Mummy Imhotep mistook Evelyn for his lover Anck-Su-Namun, but now we find out that she's really a reincarnation of Nefertiri, Anck-Su-Namun's slave. That's an easy mistake to make. After 3000 years in the grave you can get people mixed up.
This is a very good film, but not quite up to the standard of the original. One of its weaknesses is in the use of CGI. In the first film the computer effects were used discreetly to add awe to the film whenever needed. In the sequel the computer effects are over-used and dominate the imagery.
I recommend the film strongly, especially if you're able to buy the trilogy as a box set in America and England.
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