Film Review – Mummies

“Mummies” is a Spanish animated production that’s hoping to use Disney formula as it explores a world of strange magic and restless characters. Screenwriters Jordi Gasull and Javier Lopez Barreira don’t offer an original take on the needs of a princess and the concern of a future prince, trusting in the familiarity of it all as cartoon shenanigans carry the endeavor. Perhaps younger audiences won’t mind the formula, and there’s something potentially compelling about the concept of mummies on the loose, but the feature isn’t pushing too hard when it comes to excitement, making it hard for those who’ve seen this kind of story before to sit through it again. “Mummies” plays it safe, dealing with slapstick comedy, broad villainy, and the torment of easily solvable problems, and director Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha doesn’t challenge any of it, electing to coast on bright animation and occasional silliness. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com