Review of Mummy, The: Quest For The Scrolls

Introduction

There was once a highly successful film made for the over 12s and this spawned a sequel and even a prequel-all of varying quality. To make some more money and prolong the franchise a cartoon series was created for television and a somewhat younger audience.

In the tradition of Indiana Jones and other boys-own adventures this cartoon has a young boy for a hero, accompanied by his English mother and all-American father, he can`t travel alone you know.

Every adventure leads to an encounter with Imhotep, the Mummy previously on the rampage in the two live-action films. The team of the boy, parents and his pet mongoose must outwit the Mummy and save the world.(that sounds familiar)

The Mummy is accompanied by his companion, Colin, who kowtows to him in a uniquely British way.

Video

Good quality picture with clear animation. Nothing to write home about but standard TV quality picture.

Audio

A stereo soundtrack, which is perfectly adequate.
The episodes are well scripted with interesting adventures-OK so you sort of know that they`ll survive every episode but its aimed at youngish children!

As usual stereotyping of British characters balanced I`m pleased to say by a sensible and intelligent female character-hurrah!

Features

Trivia challenge.
Bonus episode- you need to answer the extremely ( for me ) difficult questions to get this.
Character descriptions-helps to follow the cartoon.
The Mummy animated franchise trailer
Egyptology-the educational bit.

Conclusion

Hey I liked this! It`s a bit of fun with a formula but quite entertaining for the kids and me. I feel the plots could get a bit threadbare like the Mummy but of course so much cheaper than producing a movie with all those special effects. I`m not sure about the value of buying the disc when no doubt the series will be repeated ad infinitum on the television.