The Mummy's Ghost Through a "Kid's" Eyes

In 1944 there were two Mummy films plus a Monster Mash Up. 

What a great year!!!!

On continuity:

Rosa- "Is this the same mummy that comes back again."
Me- "Yup."

Rosa- "rolls eyes*

On cross overs:

Me- "Hey, John Carradine plays the new high priest. They should have made him Dracula to tie in with the other films." 

On Andoheb in the tomb:

Rosa- "Didn't he die in the last two movies?"

Me- "Maybe he was sleeping?"
 
On time saving in a sixty minute film:

Me- "Oh, they're telling the back story of the other movies instead of showing it this time.
 And the Professor is the same guy from the last movie...with a student asking exposition questions to fill in the spaces."

On the Egyptian Amina:

Rosa- "Is that princess Ananananaka reincarnated again."

Me- "Too many 'na na's but, yes."

On the transfer of Arkham priestly power:

Rosa- "Kiss the amulet...

Oh, or wear it. 

The other guy kissed it."

 
On boiling Nine Tana Leaves to keep the Mummy alive:

Rosa- "Wasn’t it three?"

Me- "It was three to keep him alive, nine to enrage him. 

Maybe they forgot about the three."

Rosa- "Well I didn’t."

 

On the Professor telling his wife, "Don't worry" as he fiddles with Egypt stuff:

Rosa- "Okay, he'll be dead in ten minutes. 

Is he going to brew the tana leaves?"

*sigh*

On the classic Mummy questions upon his return:

Rosa- "How is he there if he was completely destroyed?

He’s still going to use that bad arm isn't he?

He walks sideways. Is he doing  the Cotton Eyed Joe?

How’d he get there, or anywhere, so fast?

Now run Professor, don't stay there looking at him.

How did he know there were tana leaves there?"

On the investigators finding a substance on the professor's throat:

Rosa- "MOLD!!!"

*It is mold*

Rosa- "DUH!!"

On the back of the Mummy's wrapping being a little tight in one spot:

Rosa- "He's got a wedgie! That's why he makes that face." 

Aside- Yes I did cue up the blu ray to photograph Kharis's butt.  

I didn't want to know what google image hits came back on "mummy wedgie."

On comparing the on screen Egyptian artifacts to our trips to the MET:

Rosa- "Do we have that on our museum."

Me- "One that comes alive? No."

Rosa- "Good. I don’t want moldy, sideways, wedgie man coming after me."
 

On Bey telling Kharis, "STOP:"

*The Mummy poses*

Rosa - "Hammer Time!"

On the Mummy's aimless searching being called "groping:"

Rosa- *Eyebrows raise above her forehead*

Me- "Not that kind of groping."

On Amina's lavish, mansion like, furnished room:

Rosa- "Those are really nice dorms.

Maybe she's in a a sorority."
 
On Kharis carrying Amina away:

Rosa- "See! He's using the bad arm again!"
 
On Bey falling for Amina:

Rosa- "They always end up wanting the woman for themselves."

*Amina has turned blonde while being carried by Kharis* 

Rosa- "Um... what just happened? She went to a beauty parlor before he tied her up?"
 

On Kharis seeing Bey falling for Amina:

Rosa- "The Mummy's like, 'Not again'."

On the yappy little dog that finally causes someone to wake up in time to see the Mummy:

Rosa- "Peanuts! The Star of the show!

And the hero!"
 

On Amina mummying out as Kharis carries her into the swamp:

Rosa- "Her face is still the same...

No, now it's a manikin."

Me- "So being abducted by the Mummy activates his curse?"

 

 
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