The Mummy

(Universal)

Ostensibly a remake of the 1932 original with Boris Karloff, Stephen Somers's eye-candy cornucopia bears scant resemblance to its sedate, chilling predecessor. Brendan Fraser is a 1924 Indiana Jones-styled adventurer seeking the lost treasure of Hatumnaptra; he teams up with clumsy-but-comely British librarian Rachel Weisz, but when she unwittingly reads aloud from the Book of the Dead, she regenerates Imhotep and looses the Ten Plagues of Egypt. The special effects and cinematography are grand and magical, but mummies and daddies be warned: this is probably too gross for the kids.