Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Through a series of unfortunate events, three mummies end up in present-day London and embark on a wacky and hilarious journey in search of an old ring belonging to the Royal Family, stolen by ambitious archaeologist Lord Carnaby.
Mummies (2023) is a serviceable but fairly generic animated adventure that blends fish-out-of-water comedy with a MacGuffin quest. The plot hits predictable beats—outsiders in a strange world, a villainous collector, a race to recover a stolen artifact—without subverting or meaningfully elevating the formula. The voice acting is competent and energetic, giving the characters enough personality to carry the runtime, and the 3D animation is visually polished with decent color and design work in both the Egyptian and London settings. However, the film brings little that feels distinctively new to the animated family genre; the ancient-Egyptians-in-modern-world premise has precedent, and the execution stays safely within convention. The ending resolves things tidily but without particular emotional resonance or surprise, landing as functional rather than satisfying.