Parent reviews for The Mummy (2024)

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Is The Mummy ok for 12 year olds? ›

But the sustained suspense and violence in The Mummy, combined with its supernatural themes involving death, resurrection and unnatural phenomena, make this movie unsuitable for children under 15 years. If children over 15 years watch this movie, we recommend parental guidance for them.

SEX/NUDITY 3 - Several kisses and near kisses, plus a man kisses a woman without her consent. A man puts his hand on a woman's knee and she slaps it away. During one scene, a woman's breasts and buttocks are visible through her tiny mesh outfit. We see a woman in a cleavage-revealing top and a man wearing a loincloth.

Directed by Stephen Sommers, 1999, 124 minutes, PG-13. Content Warning: This film contains potentially triggering content. Tags: pervasive adventure violence, partial nudity, implied mutilation, dismemberment, alcohol use, profanity, strangulation, implied death by bugs.

Conclusion. The PG-13 rating of this film is earned and made full use of to make "The Mummy" the action-packed adventure it wants to be. This movie is fun to watch and does not lack in excitement.

Other than the scenes noted above, there's nothing of concern in Mummies for children aged 8-13 years. There's nothing of concern in Mummies for children aged over 13 years.

Rating: PG-13, for violence, action and scary images, and for some suggestive content and partial nudity.

Filming. Principal photography began on May 4, 1998, and lasted 17 weeks. The crew was unable to shoot in Egypt due to unstable political conditions, so filming began in Marrakech, Morocco. Marrakech had the extra advantage of being much less modern than Cairo, making it easier to dress like the 1920s.

Likely the most crucial factor in The Mummy's failure — and its unfortunate failure to launch the Dark Universe — is that it simply isn't scary. A Mummy movie doesn't necessarily have to be scary especially since the beloved Mummy movies starring Brendan Fraser weren't for the most part.

But what really set The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns apart was the romance between adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and aspiring Egyptologist, Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz).

Several uses of Damn, Hell, and God. 1 use each of "sh*t", "Balls" and "Sons of Bitches", and 2 uses each of "Ass" and "Bastard". Bloody is also used once or twice.

Is The Mummy based on a true story? ›

The ancient Egyptians in the movie, i.e., Seti I, Anck-su-Namun, and Imhotep, are actual historical figures. However, that's where the accuracy ends. A simple look at their lifespans shows that these three characters could never have known each other.

Violence throughout. The various mummies, crazy-men, and zombie-like beings in this movie are shot, stabbed, blown apart, and set on fire, but no blood is present.

The movie has a good lesson in not giving into your fears and the main character even helps an old mummy cross the street to avoid being ran over by chariots. There is no use of foul language, sexual content or drugs. Mild animated violence and some use of tranquilizers to take the mummies captive.

Yes, many people still think of "The Mummy" as a horror movie when they are young. The film features supernatural elements such as a reanimated corpse, cursed artifacts, and ancient Egyptian mythology, which can be scary for some children.

Parents need to know that The Mummy Returns is the 2001 sequel to the 1999 movie The Mummy. There is frequent battle violence -- fights with swords, bows and arrows, thrown knives, kicks and punches. A woman stabs herself to death with a sword. Frequent demonic imagery: demon dogs, small skeleton…

Age Appropriate for: 13+. How scared viewers will be depends on how far they can go with their ghost stories.

It's not clear from the BBFC website, as while it was a cut 12-cert in 1999, and later released on uncut 15-cert DVD in 2003, the 2024 re-release is listed as a 12A (which came about after 2002's Spider-Man).