The Mummy Returns (2001)

Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 47%, but audiences disagreed.

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army. Wikipedia ↗

The Mummy Returns is a 2001 American action-adventure fantasy directed by Stephen Sommers, the sequel to his 1999 hit. The race to Ahm Shere, the legendary oasis where the Scorpion King's pyramid awaits, pits the O'Connells against Imhotep and his cult while Alex must survive wearing a bracelet that will kill him if not removed at the pyramid before sunrise. The Mummy Returns was bigger, louder, and more effects-heavy than the original, trading the intimate adventure charm for large-scale spectacle including pygmy mummy warriors, a wall of water chasing a double-decker bus through London, and an airship battle over the Egyptian desert.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made his film debut as the Scorpion King in a memorable opening sequence, though his fully CGI appearance in the climax was widely criticized as one of the era's most unconvincing digital effects. The film earned $433 million worldwide on a $98 million budget and launched Johnson's acting career through a Scorpion King spin-off.