ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) Review Summary

(The ChildCare Action Project (CAP) is a nonprofit Christian ministry)

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Film The Mummy Returns Linked to main entry on CAP Web Site

Findings / scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime:

• sword/spear battle sequences
• several very animated blade fights
• eating of a live scorpion by a human
• firearms as offensive tools and threats
• death by firearm
• explosive startle
• scorpions crawling over decomposed bodies and in and out of skulls
• flood and other disaster perils
• many threats to kill
• many threats to kill a child, including with a knife and once at his throat
• death by being eaten by insects
• gunfire to kill
• blade deaths
• abduction of both adult and child
• horror gore
• planning murder by incineration
• incineration deaths
• massive gun battle with many deaths
• violent attacks by unholy creatures with intent to kill
• decayed talking body
• decayed walking bodies
• open mouth kissing with a decayed body
• admission of murders
• decayed body sucking flesh off of a victim's face
• attempted murder of child by gunfire
• replay of suicide from first *Mummy*
• decayed impaled bodies
• repeated manhandling of a child
• shrunken heads
• chase by imp decaying demons
• graphic stab by an imp decaying demon
• flesh dissolved off bones
• hybrid scorpion and man

Impudence/Hate:

• six uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary, twice by a child

Sex/Homosexuality:

• woman as likely sex toy
• flashes of female posterior flesh
• multiple scenes of nudity, female

Drugs/Alcohol:

• none noted

Offense to God :

• pact with a false god
• unholy and evil beings
• visions
• seven uses of God's nain vain without the four letter expletive, twice by a child
• "Book of death gives life. Book of life takes it away."
• worship of and invoking of evil forces
• unholy incantations to resurrect
• unholy creatures
• manifestations of evil
• levitation by and for evil forces
• claims of reincarnation
• unholy possession
• story of unholy forces being in control of life
• unholy powers attempting to kill
• many deaths by demons
• thousands of demons seething in flames
• armies of unholy creatures
• resurrections of unholy creatures

Murder/Suicide:

• murder by being ripped apart by a half-man, half scorpion creature
• murder of women by being tossed off high buildings
• blade murders
• murder by dismemberment
• image of impalement murder