The Mummy looks like he's wearing an unpressed pair of baggy pajamas. He hobbles around and growls a bit. Very poor mummy make-up. Maybe this was done on purpose, as it seems to be more of an A&C "chase and pratfall" comedy than a monster movie! (Most critics complained the "Jekyll and Hyde" film was too scary.) Other than that, it's almost the last film made for Universal that spanned more than 14 years.A bunch of really tired comedy routines and gags. Only "A&C Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff" is worse. It kind of plays like a cheap Three Stooges "short" in a haunted house! Silly "exotic" dancing and singing. Costello, as always, is pursued by the pretty female villain. Tacky sets (nice marble floors) and a very fake-looking indoor dessert backdrop. Only the last 15 minutes are memorable, with three "Mummys" prancing around and secret passageways everywhere. The running gag is an animated and flying bat and of course a disappearing corpse. Lou eats "the cursed medallion of Klaris" and, after the dynamite explodes, the memory of the now-blown up mummy is celebrated at the night club "Club Klaris" with a mummy-costumed jazz band. How stupid! (Sadly, Lou Costello died four years later from his life-long heart condition and his ongoing weight problem.) I loved this stuff as a kid. In the 1950's it ran for a mere quarter (or a Mars candy wrapper) at a Saturday morning movie matinée! Note: Richard Deacon is best remembered as Lumpy's Dad on "Leave it to Beaver"! His role as the "Egyptian Priest" is beyond terrible!
Review of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
