April 17, 2026 • 20 mins
We have been anticipating “The Mummy” for months now, with “Evil Dead Rise” producer Lee Cronin at the helm, this is must see movie making for horror fans. We break down what we loved about the movie, what we didn’t and whether some of the blistering critics’ reviews are warranted. We give our recommendations on whether or not you should see “The Mummy” or skip it.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, the folks. It is Friday, April seventeenth, and Robock
and I just got back in the house. We haven't
been here twenty minutes from the theater where we just
saw one of the most highly anticipated horror movies of
the year, The Mummy. With that welcome to this episode
of Amy and TJ The Mummy Robes. I was almost
(00:24):
nervous going in because of the reviews talking about just
how scary, how gory, and even disgusting in ways that
it was. Do you want to go with first quick impressions.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I thought it would be scarier, nice, okay, and yours is.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Underwhelming. Damn. Here's the thing. I think we watched two
damn mini horror movies, sweetheart. I think I think our
bar is really really high. Not just for an original
SCREENPLAYE doesn't everything doesn't have to be centers and weapons.
That's not what we're saying. But I think we have
(01:05):
such a high bar for what is scary even gross scenes.
We have seen so much that I think we are
we have a different bar.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I think that's true, But I also think that expectations
play such a role in your impressions of a movie,
and when you've got critics using or dropping F bombs
and saying how effing scary it is and how you
know you can't eat? Before or after watching this movie,
I had an idea of what it was supposed to be,
(01:36):
So I think my expectations created a more of a
negative viewing experience than it would have had I not
read anything. If I had just gone in there blind,
had no idea what this movie was about, and then
I just sat down and watched it, I think I
would have enjoyed it. It. Enjoyed the movie a lot more.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And we are we do this all the down rope,
we say, we're saying the same thing, yes, yes, to
your point. I saw a lot of reviews and then
I thought, this is what y'all find that terrifying. I
really do think, yeah, Robe, it's possible. It's possible that
we have a different bar, even when it comes to
(02:14):
something that's supposed to be gross, Like even there was
some rough stuff in here at times, and quite frankly, Robes,
I was okay, I.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Didn't really have to look away. That's always kind of
myst tests. You see me when I have to look away,
And I still enjoy the movie. But most really scary movies.
There is a moment where I have to close my
eyes or I have to put my hands over my head.
I didn't have to do it once.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, okay, so let's set this up now, this has
been highly what promoted Robes. Yes, a lot of the
advertisements out there for Lee Cronan's The Mummy. Now Lee
cronin has known most recently twenty twenty three. I think
it was Evil Dead rides with that franchise. It did
Gangbusters and that is a hell of a movie. There
are some similarities we could talk about here in a second,
(02:59):
but Robes. This is a highly anticipated movie from a
very much horror genius. So you would even.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Say a well respected he knows the horror genre well.
And I have to say The Evil Dead Rise, Oh
my goodness, that movie. So my daughters have grown up
watching horror movies, because yes I'm their mother. And I
actually saw them turn it off. We were on a
plane it was available. I was like, oh, guys, you
have to watch The Evil Dead Rise. It's so scary.
(03:28):
They got excited. They turned it on both of them
after the first five minutes said nope, I would like
to sleep tonight. I am not watching this anymore. That
to me showed just how scary Lee Cronin can be
when he puts something together. And so that's where my
expectations were.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And you know what, that's probably the first ten minutes
of Evil Dead Rise are how most people should measure
whether or not they're going to be a what kind
of horror movie fan? If you watch the first ten
minutes and keep watching, we can hang.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yes, Or if you're like my daughters, you're like, okay,
I get it. You have boundaries. There are things you
will not enter into if it is too scary. They
love a good conjuring movie. Yep, all of that, but
actually this takes that to a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Okay, So the Mummy, So that guy is doing the Mummy,
we are crazy excited about it. In roads he takes
a spin on it in that the Mummy is how
old was she supposed to be?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, she was eight? Initially she was missing for eight years, so.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
She was eight. So we're talking about a mummy, a monster. No, no,
we say mummy. She became a full fledged monster in
this movie, did she not?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And so it was kind of even interesting to see
a child and she was adorable. That little actress I
think her first movie, Yes, adorable, and she becomes the
monster and rose. There was something about seeing all this
come out of an eight year old that was pretty
fascinating to watch.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I thought the acting was really really good.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I thought, yeah, the parents were great.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I thought the dialogue was great. Yes, I mean so
the movie was well done. I just think I had
a bar set too high about how scary it was
going to be, how gross it was going to be.
And I will say I don't know necessarily how folks
like their horror movies to end, but this one was
wrapped up in a bow in a way that I
didn't love.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Was it wrapped up in such a way that you
think they're setting up the possibility of a franchise or
a sequel.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Of course they are.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Okay, that's what we're talking about. Okay, I see that.
But yes, it was a little bit bowish. I know
what you're saying. Yes, there wasn't a whole lot of
mystery or anything. I know what you're saying. I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It was a gift. I already knew when I unwrapped
it what was inside.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, I'm with you. That's fine. I think this is
where we may have made a mistake. Ropes, and you
are very good about this. You don't want to read
reviews ahead of a movie. Sometimes we'll check at least
a Rotten Tomato score for shits and giggles, what you know,
For the most part, we don't want to see what
everybody else has to say, because going in then you'll
have an expectation. Yes, we have been told for a
(06:00):
long time this was going to be the scariest damn
thing and you can't stomach it. And it's just just
And I think for us Robes when we hear stuff
like that, given the horror movie fans we are, it
did set an expectation. Now. I hope we don't sound
like we are saying this is not a good movie.
There was one point in the theater I was squeezing
you and like, oh, it's about to be.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Fun now, Yes, and it is a if you like
a horror movie, this is a fun movie. Wanted to
point out the critics score has dropped. When we went
funny Enough to the theaters earlier today, the critics score
was at fifty one percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It's dropped
to forty seven percent critics score. The audience score is
at seventy nine percent, so a big disparity between what
the critics say and what the audience felt. And so
(06:42):
that was I do usually like that disparity. I prefer
the audience score higher than the critics score. That usually
to me means I'm gonna have a good time.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay, So what'd you. Let's do the likes and the dislikes.
What's in the positive column for you?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I thought the acting, just the visual all of that
was really good. I would have liked more jump scares.
I loved sorry, I thought, you know, the visual effects
were great, and I liked the concept of the missing
girl like it was compelling. I was. I was definitely
(07:20):
drawn into the storyline.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The acting. I love the parents, the grandma. I cannot
remember what else she's been in, but I love her
and a lot of people. When you see her, you'll
recognize the grandma, and she played very prominently in this
movie and a fun way. Yes, later I say fun.
It was terrifying, but it was kind of cool. So yes,
the act and the little girl was fantastic. I think
(07:46):
the house was a good setting, and I love the
Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss am I
saying her name. Yes, I love those movies. Now this
isn't a reimagining necessarily, but the idea the I guess
the Egypt connection of the Mummy. They make that mythology,
(08:09):
they make that connection, and so I like that idea
in that concept, but robes the difference with those movies
and that mummy actually did it all for love. There
was nothing about this monster that was any connection to
why it's happening. It's just a monster. There was no
(08:29):
I don't want, I don't need humanity, but I needed
a backstory.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So some of the the critics who didn't like the
movie said it was too much like The Exorcist, and
it wasn't enough about a mummy.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It was possession.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It was more about demonic possession, and it was less
about actually the whole Mummy genre.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Because I love a good Mummy story. I love a
good mummy Mummy backstory, and I didn't really think as
I'm watching, I was hoping for that. They didn't even
get a lot into why this group was even maintaining
this mummy like it was. There was just so much
intrigued and Egyptian mythology when it comes to this stuff
that I find interesting. That wasn't president.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, it ended up feeling more like a family was
protecting their offspring and future generations from demonic possession by
having to pass on this evil spirit to another family.
So it was less about the Mummy story that we're used.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
To and Robe that I know. I leaned over to
you certainly once but maybe several times and said to you,
the detective is awesome. Okay there. I don't know who
she is, but she brought so much Robes to this movie.
I just just love that. I guess she was kind
of a the moral base for the movie in some way.
(09:45):
I loved her.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. That's exactly
what her role was. And she was great. All of
the acting was phenomenal. So it was overall an enjoyable movie. Yes,
I would absolutely recommend it. Yes, but it didn't live
up to the hype. And even I say the next
fight because look, we love the movie, the critics hate
because we are all in. We're like there for it,
(10:06):
and so the hype either way, it didn't rise. I
didn't feel strongly in either direction enough for me to
even feel like I would write a passionate review either way.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That's a very good point. I do I have it right? Robes,
weren't there a couple of times? What was the first one?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, some stuff seemed to be a logical first and
foremost that the girl was at home, right, there were
some parts of the movie that just did not make sense.
And we're used to horror movies, right, I mean, really.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You have to suspend logic a lot often.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But Robes, they this girl is in pretty terrible shape,
and they just send her home with her parents, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
She's physically perfectly fine, and we've run all the tests
and there's nothing wrong with her. Meantime, she's like purple gray.
She's vomiting and foaming at the mouth and like and
like can't breathe without like a rattling in her chest.
So that's to me, like that was funny. They're like,
she's perfectly healthy. You can take her home. You shouldn't
(11:11):
need a nurse or anything.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Meanwhile, they get to the point they literally have two
padlocks on the door of a bedroom, Robes, and they
have her tied up at one point, and they still
won't call help.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Or take her to the like I think I'd probably
call nine one one before i'd chain my daughter to
a bed.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So again, you have to I love what the way
you always put it with horror movies. You have to
suspend some logic, and there's a certain degree we always give.
But at some point, like we can solve those problem, guys,
get her to an institution, to that.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, at one point the father even says, you know what,
I think maybe we should get some full time care
for her. I was like, you think, like a week later,
after she's chained and has levitated, I mean, come on,
that's right. I feel like we knew that a long
long time ago.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And also we have to and we could be Look,
there were some questionable parenting in this movie. Right. Parents
didn't realize that their child had been hanging out with
a stranger in the back being groomed for how long
a while? That's been going on a while while the
mom's at home. And then the one time the girl
gets abducted the dance at home.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Right, I was like, oh, this is not going to
go over well in the marriage. She's like, of course,
she gets inducted on your watch, and that literally happened to.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That fight happened then robes. It was hilarious that one
of the girls, well the monster is crawling out of
the ceiling during a funeral, and nobody notices the other
girls pulling her teeth out, throwing them on the floor
in the middle of a Nobody notices.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
There was something they were really focused on their grief.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh like, come on, y'all. So some of that stuff
again suspend some logic, but there were moments in there
where we kind of scratched our heads.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yes, I think the idea is to go into a
movie like this with just an open mind and know
that you can laugh a lot while you're trying to
get a little scared. But it's more I think if
you look at it more from a comedic coror standpoint.
I know that's not what they were going for, but that,
to me is the best way to view this movie.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You know what romes this is, Thank you, this is
one It's hard to find the balance, but to find
a fun, scary movie that's not meant to be a comedy.
This was a fun movie experience. I enjoyed it. It
took a moment to get going, but you knowing it
(13:30):
got going, I said, baby, oh, it's about to get
fun now, because you could just tell something was ramping up.
And the other thing I felt about the movie robes
almost the entire time. It never let you go.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You were anticipating something weird, some moment, What's about to happen?
That was intent. I didn't even get up and go
through the bathroom a single time during this movie, and
I needed to.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I did too, and I did neither because I didn't want.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
To miss the thing, and it was two hours long.
Plus it didn't feel like it to me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's wy I agree.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I agree, But stay here. After all this, I think
Robes at one point you said you probably would recommend it. However,
we do need to tell you who this movie is
not for. Stay here, we'll explain who we would and
wouldn't recommend this one.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
To welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and
TJ where we just saw Lee Cronin's The Mummy literally
just walked out of the theater and came and sat
down to talk about our thoughts on this widely reviewed
(14:40):
and passionately reviewed movie. Because it seemed like either you
loved it or you hated it, and funny enough. I
feel like I'm somewhere in between. How about you.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I liked it. I was prepared for this to be
an old timer for me right the way it was
being talked about by and again Love I'm gonna We
had it on this morning, crazy as it sounds when
we do. We were recording our morning run in our
early morning episodes. I had this movie playing this morning
just in anticipation of watching his new movie. So I
(15:14):
had really high expectations of him.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Evil Dead Rise we're talking about it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh sorry, I never made the name of the movie. Yes,
I was watching that. So I think we set our
expectations too high based on a lot of what we
were seeing, and that had an impact on what we
actually saw in the theater. But it was good. It
was fun, it was fine, it was cool, it was
(15:38):
I mean, it was all those things, and it was
quite enjoyable that I mean, sometimes it's just a good
movie experience. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I don't regret going, and I actually enjoyed watching it.
It just didn't necessarily jibe with what I was reading.
But I had a few favorite critic reviews I saw.
I thought you would love this one from the Los
Angeles times. This one just came in. All these moments
are good for audience grown, and there's an enjoyable bad
movie here for the season. So he gave it a
(16:05):
bad review, but he acknowledged that it's an enjoyable bad movie.
That's how he put it. I liked this one too,
Dan Scully, as much as I would have liked to
see a new take on the Mummy. I'm pleased as
punch to see a new take on a Mummy, even
if it really is just Egypt Dead Rise.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, and it's okay. I this is rare that
I am the one who wants more of a backstory,
but there was. I am, I am very some of
my favorite movies. I love those Mummy movies. But the Mummy,
it all happened because he was in love and then
he ended up being condemned and he came back because
he was trying to bring his love back. That's a story.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think a lot of people went into it hoping
there was going to be a nod to that, and
there wasn't. Audience sample, I love this review. I really
liked the movie. The gore and the visual moments were crazy.
I would have just renamed the movie The Exorcism of
Katie Cannon after the Evil Mummy Rises. To the point
(17:09):
being there was it was absolutely a borrowed concept from
the Mummy, from the Exorcist and from Evil Dead Rise.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It was. It was a demonic possession movie more so
than anything else it was. But I still liked it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I did too.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
It's enjoyable. Now, who who would you say this one
is not for you? Because some of the stuff was,
like we've seen a lot, but I didn't find any
of this more uncomfortable than these It's funny.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
People keep talking about the toenail scene. Okay, but I
didn't need to look away.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It wasn't that bad Robes, I give it.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I thought it was going to be so much worse.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I thought that scene was kind of fun because I
did too. The mom had to put so much of
her weight and.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Effort clipping the toenails, these thick, demonic toenails.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It was kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, I did too. Didn't mind it at all. I mean,
I do think though, if you do get kind of
squeamish or you don't like anything that's Scott Gore in it,
do not go see this movie. It probably is not
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If there's some liquid transfer at times.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yes, no good, every demonic possession you have liquid trans
you know, And that the biting scenes I actually appreciated.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Wow, bro, it wasn't that. I guess we see too much.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I think maybe if I went back and watched now
that I don't expect it to be so scary. I
think I could laugh more because there actually were some
darkly comedic scenes. But maybe I was, Yeah, there was,
but I thought I was. I think I was just
waiting for it to be scarier. That was my biggest letdown.
So I think if you're looking for something that you
think is going to make you jump, whether it's really
(18:45):
gonna scare you, if you just go that's this is
not a movie for you movie. But if you go
into a movie just to be entertained, to see a
twist on the Mummy and the Exorcist and recognize, you're
probably not gonna be scared, and you might be a
little grossed out. But if you can look at it
with some of the I think some of the funny
dialogue that was in there, you can really enjoy this movie.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It was a fun movie.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The more you talk about it now, it really was
a fun movie.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
By the way, they it did one point five million
dollars on its preview night, which began at three pm
on Thursday, So that means that they're eyeing and opening
weekend of around twelve million, and expectations were ten to
fifteen so that would be right in line. The picture
costs twenty two million, OK, so it's likely that it should.
(19:34):
It probably won't do Gangbusters, but it will probably do
well enough.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But this is one, this is one you needed good
word of mouth. You need to folks to run out
and say, holy hell, and maybe some will. And we'd recommend,
we absolutely recommend this movie and go see and you're
going to have a good time. Yes, but this is
rob Do you do something I noticed you do a
lot in movies and sometimes you get embarrassed. It's fine,
you jump a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yes, I don't jump on.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Little things like it doesn't matter what movie. It could
be a B movie from nineteen seventy five, it doesn't matter.
You will if something happens. You're jumpy, and it's a
thing you do, no matter how great.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Because I'm in it, like I'm in it. I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
No matter how many horror movies you watch, I jump,
never jump on, not one time that you one time.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And I would have thought this would have had jump scares,
but it did not. So just go into it with
those expectations and you should be able to enjoy your song.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Right well, folks, good luck. Let us know how you
enjoyed the movie. We appreciate you spending some time with us.
It's always on DJ on behalf of my dear hermy robot.
We will talk to y'all soon
Hey, the folks. It is Friday, April seventeenth, and Robock
and I just got back in the house. We haven't
been here twenty minutes from the theater where we just
saw one of the most highly anticipated horror movies of
the year, The Mummy. With that welcome to this episode
of Amy and TJ The Mummy Robes. I was almost
(00:24):
nervous going in because of the reviews talking about just
how scary, how gory, and even disgusting in ways that
it was. Do you want to go with first quick impressions.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I thought it would be scarier, nice, okay, and yours is.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Underwhelming. Damn. Here's the thing. I think we watched two
damn mini horror movies, sweetheart. I think I think our
bar is really really high. Not just for an original
SCREENPLAYE doesn't everything doesn't have to be centers and weapons.
That's not what we're saying. But I think we have
(01:05):
such a high bar for what is scary even gross scenes.
We have seen so much that I think we are
we have a different bar.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I think that's true, But I also think that expectations
play such a role in your impressions of a movie,
and when you've got critics using or dropping F bombs
and saying how effing scary it is and how you
know you can't eat? Before or after watching this movie,
I had an idea of what it was supposed to be,
(01:36):
So I think my expectations created a more of a
negative viewing experience than it would have had I not
read anything. If I had just gone in there blind,
had no idea what this movie was about, and then
I just sat down and watched it, I think I
would have enjoyed it. It. Enjoyed the movie a lot more.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And we are we do this all the down rope,
we say, we're saying the same thing, yes, yes, to
your point. I saw a lot of reviews and then
I thought, this is what y'all find that terrifying. I
really do think, yeah, Robe, it's possible. It's possible that
we have a different bar, even when it comes to
(02:14):
something that's supposed to be gross, Like even there was
some rough stuff in here at times, and quite frankly, Robes,
I was okay, I.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Didn't really have to look away. That's always kind of
myst tests. You see me when I have to look away,
And I still enjoy the movie. But most really scary movies.
There is a moment where I have to close my
eyes or I have to put my hands over my head.
I didn't have to do it once.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well, okay, so let's set this up now, this has
been highly what promoted Robes. Yes, a lot of the
advertisements out there for Lee Cronan's The Mummy. Now Lee
cronin has known most recently twenty twenty three. I think
it was Evil Dead rides with that franchise. It did
Gangbusters and that is a hell of a movie. There
are some similarities we could talk about here in a second,
(02:59):
but Robes. This is a highly anticipated movie from a
very much horror genius. So you would even.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Say a well respected he knows the horror genre well.
And I have to say The Evil Dead Rise, Oh
my goodness, that movie. So my daughters have grown up
watching horror movies, because yes I'm their mother. And I
actually saw them turn it off. We were on a
plane it was available. I was like, oh, guys, you
have to watch The Evil Dead Rise. It's so scary.
(03:28):
They got excited. They turned it on both of them
after the first five minutes said nope, I would like
to sleep tonight. I am not watching this anymore. That
to me showed just how scary Lee Cronin can be
when he puts something together. And so that's where my
expectations were.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And you know what, that's probably the first ten minutes
of Evil Dead Rise are how most people should measure
whether or not they're going to be a what kind
of horror movie fan? If you watch the first ten
minutes and keep watching, we can hang.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yes, Or if you're like my daughters, you're like, okay,
I get it. You have boundaries. There are things you
will not enter into if it is too scary. They
love a good conjuring movie. Yep, all of that, but
actually this takes that to a whole other level.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Okay, So the Mummy, So that guy is doing the Mummy,
we are crazy excited about it. In roads he takes
a spin on it in that the Mummy is how
old was she supposed to be?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, she was eight? Initially she was missing for eight years, so.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
She was eight. So we're talking about a mummy, a monster. No, no,
we say mummy. She became a full fledged monster in
this movie, did she not?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And so it was kind of even interesting to see
a child and she was adorable. That little actress I
think her first movie, Yes, adorable, and she becomes the
monster and rose. There was something about seeing all this
come out of an eight year old that was pretty
fascinating to watch.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I thought the acting was really really good.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I thought, yeah, the parents were great.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I thought the dialogue was great. Yes, I mean so
the movie was well done. I just think I had
a bar set too high about how scary it was
going to be, how gross it was going to be.
And I will say I don't know necessarily how folks
like their horror movies to end, but this one was
wrapped up in a bow in a way that I
didn't love.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Was it wrapped up in such a way that you
think they're setting up the possibility of a franchise or
a sequel.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Of course they are.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Okay, that's what we're talking about. Okay, I see that.
But yes, it was a little bit bowish. I know
what you're saying. Yes, there wasn't a whole lot of
mystery or anything. I know what you're saying. I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It was a gift. I already knew when I unwrapped
it what was inside.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, I'm with you. That's fine. I think this is
where we may have made a mistake. Ropes, and you
are very good about this. You don't want to read
reviews ahead of a movie. Sometimes we'll check at least
a Rotten Tomato score for shits and giggles, what you know,
For the most part, we don't want to see what
everybody else has to say, because going in then you'll
have an expectation. Yes, we have been told for a
(06:00):
long time this was going to be the scariest damn
thing and you can't stomach it. And it's just just
And I think for us Robes when we hear stuff
like that, given the horror movie fans we are, it
did set an expectation. Now. I hope we don't sound
like we are saying this is not a good movie.
There was one point in the theater I was squeezing
you and like, oh, it's about to be.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Fun now, Yes, and it is a if you like
a horror movie, this is a fun movie. Wanted to
point out the critics score has dropped. When we went
funny Enough to the theaters earlier today, the critics score
was at fifty one percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It's dropped
to forty seven percent critics score. The audience score is
at seventy nine percent, so a big disparity between what
the critics say and what the audience felt. And so
(06:42):
that was I do usually like that disparity. I prefer
the audience score higher than the critics score. That usually
to me means I'm gonna have a good time.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay, So what'd you. Let's do the likes and the dislikes.
What's in the positive column for you?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I thought the acting, just the visual all of that
was really good. I would have liked more jump scares.
I loved sorry, I thought, you know, the visual effects
were great, and I liked the concept of the missing
girl like it was compelling. I was. I was definitely
(07:20):
drawn into the storyline.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The acting. I love the parents, the grandma. I cannot
remember what else she's been in, but I love her
and a lot of people. When you see her, you'll
recognize the grandma, and she played very prominently in this
movie and a fun way. Yes, later I say fun.
It was terrifying, but it was kind of cool. So yes,
the act and the little girl was fantastic. I think
(07:46):
the house was a good setting, and I love the
Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss am I
saying her name. Yes, I love those movies. Now this
isn't a reimagining necessarily, but the idea the I guess
the Egypt connection of the Mummy. They make that mythology,
(08:09):
they make that connection, and so I like that idea
in that concept, but robes the difference with those movies
and that mummy actually did it all for love. There
was nothing about this monster that was any connection to
why it's happening. It's just a monster. There was no
(08:29):
I don't want, I don't need humanity, but I needed
a backstory.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
So some of the the critics who didn't like the
movie said it was too much like The Exorcist, and
it wasn't enough about a mummy.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It was possession.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
It was more about demonic possession, and it was less
about actually the whole Mummy genre.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Because I love a good Mummy story. I love a
good mummy Mummy backstory, and I didn't really think as
I'm watching, I was hoping for that. They didn't even
get a lot into why this group was even maintaining
this mummy like it was. There was just so much
intrigued and Egyptian mythology when it comes to this stuff
that I find interesting. That wasn't president.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, it ended up feeling more like a family was
protecting their offspring and future generations from demonic possession by
having to pass on this evil spirit to another family.
So it was less about the Mummy story that we're used.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
To and Robe that I know. I leaned over to
you certainly once but maybe several times and said to you,
the detective is awesome. Okay there. I don't know who
she is, but she brought so much Robes to this movie.
I just just love that. I guess she was kind
of a the moral base for the movie in some way.
(09:45):
I loved her.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. That's exactly
what her role was. And she was great. All of
the acting was phenomenal. So it was overall an enjoyable movie. Yes,
I would absolutely recommend it. Yes, but it didn't live
up to the hype. And even I say the next
fight because look, we love the movie, the critics hate
because we are all in. We're like there for it,
(10:06):
and so the hype either way, it didn't rise. I
didn't feel strongly in either direction enough for me to
even feel like I would write a passionate review either way.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That's a very good point. I do I have it right? Robes,
weren't there a couple of times? What was the first one?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, some stuff seemed to be a logical first and
foremost that the girl was at home, right, there were
some parts of the movie that just did not make sense.
And we're used to horror movies, right, I mean, really.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
You have to suspend logic a lot often.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But Robes, they this girl is in pretty terrible shape,
and they just send her home with her parents, Like.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
She's physically perfectly fine, and we've run all the tests
and there's nothing wrong with her. Meantime, she's like purple gray.
She's vomiting and foaming at the mouth and like and
like can't breathe without like a rattling in her chest.
So that's to me, like that was funny. They're like,
she's perfectly healthy. You can take her home. You shouldn't
(11:11):
need a nurse or anything.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Meanwhile, they get to the point they literally have two
padlocks on the door of a bedroom, Robes, and they
have her tied up at one point, and they still
won't call help.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Or take her to the like I think I'd probably
call nine one one before i'd chain my daughter to
a bed.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So again, you have to I love what the way
you always put it with horror movies. You have to
suspend some logic, and there's a certain degree we always give.
But at some point, like we can solve those problem, guys,
get her to an institution, to that.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, at one point the father even says, you know what,
I think maybe we should get some full time care
for her. I was like, you think, like a week later,
after she's chained and has levitated, I mean, come on,
that's right. I feel like we knew that a long
long time ago.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And also we have to and we could be Look,
there were some questionable parenting in this movie. Right. Parents
didn't realize that their child had been hanging out with
a stranger in the back being groomed for how long
a while? That's been going on a while while the
mom's at home. And then the one time the girl
gets abducted the dance at home.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Right, I was like, oh, this is not going to
go over well in the marriage. She's like, of course,
she gets inducted on your watch, and that literally happened to.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That fight happened then robes. It was hilarious that one
of the girls, well the monster is crawling out of
the ceiling during a funeral, and nobody notices the other
girls pulling her teeth out, throwing them on the floor
in the middle of a Nobody notices.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
There was something they were really focused on their grief.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh like, come on, y'all. So some of that stuff
again suspend some logic, but there were moments in there
where we kind of scratched our heads.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yes, I think the idea is to go into a
movie like this with just an open mind and know
that you can laugh a lot while you're trying to
get a little scared. But it's more I think if
you look at it more from a comedic coror standpoint.
I know that's not what they were going for, but that,
to me is the best way to view this movie.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You know what romes this is, Thank you, this is
one It's hard to find the balance, but to find
a fun, scary movie that's not meant to be a comedy.
This was a fun movie experience. I enjoyed it. It
took a moment to get going, but you knowing it
(13:30):
got going, I said, baby, oh, it's about to get
fun now, because you could just tell something was ramping up.
And the other thing I felt about the movie robes
almost the entire time. It never let you go.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You were anticipating something weird, some moment, What's about to happen?
That was intent. I didn't even get up and go
through the bathroom a single time during this movie, and
I needed to.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I did too, and I did neither because I didn't want.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
To miss the thing, and it was two hours long.
Plus it didn't feel like it to me.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's wy I agree.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I agree, But stay here. After all this, I think
Robes at one point you said you probably would recommend it. However,
we do need to tell you who this movie is
not for. Stay here, we'll explain who we would and
wouldn't recommend this one.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
To welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and
TJ where we just saw Lee Cronin's The Mummy literally
just walked out of the theater and came and sat
down to talk about our thoughts on this widely reviewed
(14:40):
and passionately reviewed movie. Because it seemed like either you
loved it or you hated it, and funny enough. I
feel like I'm somewhere in between. How about you.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I liked it. I was prepared for this to be
an old timer for me right the way it was
being talked about by and again Love I'm gonna We
had it on this morning, crazy as it sounds when
we do. We were recording our morning run in our
early morning episodes. I had this movie playing this morning
just in anticipation of watching his new movie. So I
(15:14):
had really high expectations of him.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Evil Dead Rise we're talking about it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh sorry, I never made the name of the movie. Yes,
I was watching that. So I think we set our
expectations too high based on a lot of what we
were seeing, and that had an impact on what we
actually saw in the theater. But it was good. It
was fun, it was fine, it was cool, it was
(15:38):
I mean, it was all those things, and it was
quite enjoyable that I mean, sometimes it's just a good
movie experience. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I don't regret going, and I actually enjoyed watching it.
It just didn't necessarily jibe with what I was reading.
But I had a few favorite critic reviews I saw.
I thought you would love this one from the Los
Angeles times. This one just came in. All these moments
are good for audience grown, and there's an enjoyable bad
movie here for the season. So he gave it a
(16:05):
bad review, but he acknowledged that it's an enjoyable bad movie.
That's how he put it. I liked this one too,
Dan Scully, as much as I would have liked to
see a new take on the Mummy. I'm pleased as
punch to see a new take on a Mummy, even
if it really is just Egypt Dead Rise.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, yeah, and it's okay. I this is rare that
I am the one who wants more of a backstory,
but there was. I am, I am very some of
my favorite movies. I love those Mummy movies. But the Mummy,
it all happened because he was in love and then
he ended up being condemned and he came back because
he was trying to bring his love back. That's a story.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think a lot of people went into it hoping
there was going to be a nod to that, and
there wasn't. Audience sample, I love this review. I really
liked the movie. The gore and the visual moments were crazy.
I would have just renamed the movie The Exorcism of
Katie Cannon after the Evil Mummy Rises. To the point
(17:09):
being there was it was absolutely a borrowed concept from
the Mummy, from the Exorcist and from Evil Dead Rise.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It was. It was a demonic possession movie more so
than anything else it was. But I still liked it.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I did too.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
It's enjoyable. Now, who who would you say this one
is not for you? Because some of the stuff was,
like we've seen a lot, but I didn't find any
of this more uncomfortable than these It's funny.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
People keep talking about the toenail scene. Okay, but I
didn't need to look away.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It wasn't that bad Robes, I give it.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I thought it was going to be so much worse.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I thought that scene was kind of fun because I
did too. The mom had to put so much of
her weight and.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Effort clipping the toenails, these thick, demonic toenails.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It was kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, I did too. Didn't mind it at all. I mean,
I do think though, if you do get kind of
squeamish or you don't like anything that's Scott Gore in it,
do not go see this movie. It probably is not
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
If there's some liquid transfer at times.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yes, no good, every demonic possession you have liquid trans
you know, And that the biting scenes I actually appreciated.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Wow, bro, it wasn't that. I guess we see too much.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I think maybe if I went back and watched now
that I don't expect it to be so scary. I
think I could laugh more because there actually were some
darkly comedic scenes. But maybe I was, Yeah, there was,
but I thought I was. I think I was just
waiting for it to be scarier. That was my biggest letdown.
So I think if you're looking for something that you
think is going to make you jump, whether it's really
(18:45):
gonna scare you, if you just go that's this is
not a movie for you movie. But if you go
into a movie just to be entertained, to see a
twist on the Mummy and the Exorcist and recognize, you're
probably not gonna be scared, and you might be a
little grossed out. But if you can look at it
with some of the I think some of the funny
dialogue that was in there, you can really enjoy this movie.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
It was a fun movie.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
The more you talk about it now, it really was
a fun movie.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
By the way, they it did one point five million
dollars on its preview night, which began at three pm
on Thursday, So that means that they're eyeing and opening
weekend of around twelve million, and expectations were ten to
fifteen so that would be right in line. The picture
costs twenty two million, OK, so it's likely that it should.
(19:34):
It probably won't do Gangbusters, but it will probably do
well enough.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But this is one, this is one you needed good
word of mouth. You need to folks to run out
and say, holy hell, and maybe some will. And we'd recommend,
we absolutely recommend this movie and go see and you're
going to have a good time. Yes, but this is
rob Do you do something I noticed you do a
lot in movies and sometimes you get embarrassed. It's fine,
you jump a lot.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yes, I don't jump on.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Little things like it doesn't matter what movie. It could
be a B movie from nineteen seventy five, it doesn't matter.
You will if something happens. You're jumpy, and it's a
thing you do, no matter how great.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Because I'm in it, like I'm in it. I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
No matter how many horror movies you watch, I jump,
never jump on, not one time that you one time.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And I would have thought this would have had jump scares,
but it did not. So just go into it with
those expectations and you should be able to enjoy your song.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Right well, folks, good luck. Let us know how you
enjoyed the movie. We appreciate you spending some time with us.
It's always on DJ on behalf of my dear hermy robot.
We will talk to y'all soon
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