It's beginning to look like August.

2008-07-30 20:00:01

"[D]id I mention the Abominable Snowmen, who help Rick, Evelyn and Alex combat Li's revived baddie and, after kicking one of the emperor's many minions over a Himalayan gateway, victoriously raise their arms like an NFL referee signaling that a field goal is good?"          --Slant's Nick Schager on "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," "making the first two Mummy films seem like The Godfather I and II." "The blame...should rest at the feet of Paul W.S. Anderson. His direction is horrible, with the exception of a couple of admittedly stellar shots the car race scenes are actually kind of cluttered and boring, several normally solid bit players turn in career worst performances and the Anderson-written script is laughably, horribly bad. We like to joke about plot holes big enough to drive a truck through but this film has plot holes that people LITERALLY drive actual trucks through with nobody...

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