DO NOT SEE the new Mummy movie. It is awful. I mean, I suspect that they hired a pack of film-school students to plot it on a dare, and then threw a dart at the opening of "Another Action Movie" and managed to hit a director with such limited talent that he could not even spell "CG," let alone skillfully orchestrate effects. They hired him, and told him to "go forth and do special effects. By the way, could you spiff up this dialogue the students wrote? It's kind of clunky."

Oh, yeah, and the plot? Don't even get me started. And the replacement of the lead character with some actress whose idea of a British accent is to spit all her 't's and purse her lips occasionally? Not good. After I left the theatre I sent a text message to Brendan Fraser saying simply: what were you thinking?