WARNING, a LOT of SPOILERS are found in this link...

http://www.miceage.com/kevinyee/ky060304a.htm



...my assessment is that Universal Creative has outdone itself here.

Mulling over the experience afterward, I realized the Mummy has fired another volley in the unending Disney-Universal battle. Part Indy, part Pirates, part Norway, part Space Mountain, part Winnie the Pooh, and part Backdraft, the Mummy can be hard to classify. But it’s set the bar higher for Disney, to be sure. Some riders have told me they still prefer Spider-Man as an overall amazing experience, but Mummy will echo for some time in people’s memory.

Here is the storyline that Kevin was confused about.

You are cast as an extra in the new Mummy movie. While going to the set you are told the set is cursed. The greeters at the front with the red baseball caps on are supposed to be casting directors. They are supposed be saying things like: "Come in we need more extras on the set. The scene you will be filming is a minecar scene for the new Mummy movie." (The problem right now is many of the greeters are too busy checking for bags, pointing out lockers, measuring small children and answering questions about the ride to be in character.)

Then you go inside and see the "minions" (ride ops) whispering about curses etc. You are then loaded in the cars which are part of the scene you will be in.

While in the cars you "see dead people." Are they real are is this just part of the movie?


The ride is billed as a psychological thrill ride because it messes with your mind...was everything that happened to you just part of the making of the movie where you were an extra in the filming or were you really chased by the real Imhotep?

The casting director welcomes you back at the end of the ride as if everything that happened to you was normal and all of it was just a part of the movie you were in. Yet, in the back of your mind, you wonder if there really was a curse and you were indeed attacked by Imhotep. Maybe it really wasn't part of the movie and the casting director was just oblivious to that fact that you were attacked.

So which is real? Was the curse (that you barely escaped) real? Or was it all fantasy for the making of the movie? It is a blurring of the line between reality and fantasy.

As far as the mummy handing the coffee to Brendon Fraser: Just when you are convinced that all that happened to you was just part of a movie and not real, you see that a mummy has replaced Reggie to hand a cup of coffee to Brendan. Brenden screams and you are now convinced that the curse was a real.

When you get off, you are welcomed back by the casting director saying "good job, folks" and clapping for you. Sometimes they even have that director's clap-board and they say "that's a wrap."